Itunes in Linux Console?

[Tony Baechler]

I could be wrong about this, but I don't think you're correct.  First, the 
protocol it uses is normal http, but with itn:// as the designation instead. 
  Second, going to one of those links tells you that you must have ITunes to 
view the content and sends you to a download page.  When I've tried, I 
couldn't get any feed at all.  Even if you find a normal feed, be careful if 
it uses ITunes in the enclosure tags as all the files seem to be named 
enclosure.m4a and files might get overwritten.  In short, unless you have a 
Mac or Windows, it's totally proprietary and you won't get anywhere, 
especially with a text browser.  It's been a few years since I tried, but I 
doubt that it has improved.

Just to clarify, the enclosure problem I'm talking about has nothing to do 
with the "itunes" tags in the feed.  It has to do with the enclosures 
themselves.  Some sites seem to redirect through ITunes, presumably to track 
who is downloading.  Those are what you have to watch out for and there 
seems to be no way around the redirection.  I hope my information is wrong, 
but I doubt it.  I haven't looked at feedflipper.net so hopefully it works 
around some of these issues.

On 6/17/2012 12:39 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I understood it, iTunes podcast links are normal HTTP links with the
> protocol changed to something that I can't remember right now so that iTunes
> opens it. It's still served over normal HTTP, and substituting this should
> get you the XML feed.