I’ve done it before when too lazy to go to a patreon page of a podcast I’m a member with. First you got to add the RSS feed that you get from the podcast, if on Patreon that’s easy to obtain, but a lot of the entirely free podcasts that are hosted on some podcast platforms are easily added to VLC in the Podcasts section with the view with all the options on the left that has Playlist, Media Library, then the My Computer folders (My Videos, My Photos, Music), Devices : Discs, Local Network : mDNS Network Discovery, Network Streams (SAP), Universal Plug & Play), then it will say Internet and have Podcasts,you put your cursor near the border of the frame and a big + sign will show up click on it and you’ll be able to enter RSS addresses for all the podcasts that support RSS feeds (almost all of them). Then you click right click on an episode. A box will pop up, don’t touch the Source, click on Dump Raw Output, select the folder you want the podcast to save to, name it in the dialog box, make it an .mp3, I know there is smaller just as good file sizes, but in the case of Patreon RSS feeds, they are mp3 files when you download them on the site, so they are encoded as mp3, sure you could convert and all, but it seems you don’t want to do that. when you click start, something will appear in your playlist, you click play and the podcast will start to look as if it was loading with the orange line going back and forth but after not very long it will stop and when it does, go take a look at the directory, your saved podcast will be there. That’s how I’ve done it when I didn’t feel like logging into patreon and doing it manually or use software such as jdownloader which is a pain when it needs to download from any paid for platforms, setting the login and password rarely worked for me, with podcasts anyway, I’ve done it with video files and even youtube streams as they were happening, watching the stream in VLC and it would save along, but that’s not what you asked for. Hope this helps even if you made this post before a world changing event took place, at least world disturbing enough to be a huge pain to those who were never affected heh.
Or maybe this will help someone else. :shrug:
p.s. While I’m at it, can someone explain to me wtf is a mDNS Network Discovery. I know how to set up “exotic” DNS protocols for browsers or system-wide like DNS-Over-Quic, but I never heard of mDNS Networks.
Statistics: Posted by godfather_of_slander — 09 Aug 2024 15:33