# podcast
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`podcast` is a command line podcast player.
NOTE: Playback requires either mpv or vlc to be installed
It currently supports:
- [x] Subscribing to RSS feeds
- [x] Unsubscribing from RSS feeds
- [x] Streaming podcasts
- [x] Parallel downloading of multiple podcasts
- [x] Playing podcasts
- [x] Auto-download new episodes
- [x] Automatically check for updates
- [ ] Shell Completions
- [x] zsh
- [ ] bash
- [ ] sh
- [ ] Searching for podcasts...(WIP)
By default, podcasts are downloaded to $HOME/Podcasts, but this folder can be set with the $PODCAST environmental variable.
How many latest episodes to download when subscibing to new podcasts can be set in the $PODCAST/.config YAML file
Downloads can be done a variety of ways:
Individually: `podcast download $podcast_name 4`
Multiple: `podcast download $podcast_name 1,5,9-12,14`
All: `podcast download $podcast_name`