about a month ago netnewswire author brent simmons wrote "My hope is that somebody will take this as an opportunity to do something cool and write an enclosure-downloading script (perhaps an AppleScript Studio app?) that other folks can use." and other people have already, but the solutions have required a bit of geekiness to enable. today i'm releasing netmuswire, an applescript that combines netnewswire, ical, and itunes into a scheduled mp3 aggregator. netnewswire does the aggregating, ical does the download scheduling, and itunes does the playing. there's an installer that sets everything up to run automatically, but it's easy to adjust if you don't like the default schedule - just change the ical event times. if you have netnewswire 2 and a broadband connnection, please try it out and let me know if you find any problems. it's released under the GPL in the hopes that someone will use it as a template for something else - maybe a photo aggregator, a video aggregator, an event aggregator, or a contact aggregator.
netmuswire: scheduled mp3 aggregator
How do I specify which RSS feeds I want to download podcasts for? NetMusWire is installed and it has created playlists in iTunes, but has not downloaded any podcasts. I know some of the feeds I subscribe to (Engadget, iPoding) have podcasts, but they're not being downloaded.
netmuswire will (well...should) download any mp3 enclosure from any unread headline in netnewswire. documentation would have been nice, i suppose. if your headline is marked as read, it will skip it. this is because i couldn't think a better way of remembering what had been downloaded already without making a full application. if there's a feed that has unread headlines that aren't downloading, let me know what it is, and i'll try to fix it.