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A script to sync podcasts to a USB drive or SD card
Authored by: tmcintir on Mar 24, '05 06:13:30PM

There are a couple of important things that the 'rsync' method doesn't do:

I want to be able to delete files after I've listened to them on my SD Card, without having the 'sync' command reintroduce them. This allows me to keep track of which podcasts I have listened to. The script keeps a history of what has been copied so you don't get files you've alreadty listened to and discarded.

(maybe there are diffferent command-line options for rsync that would do this, which would be great, but I think you still need a script which keeps a history)

I was considering making the script actually delete items from the ~/Music/Podcast/ folder if they have been deleted from the SD Card, but decided not to for now as an archive. (You can't do this with the --delete option for rsync because it would delete new podcasts in addition to discarded ones).

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Tim McIntire
McIntire Computing Group
www.mcintireCG.com



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