Gocaster is a lightweight terminal-based podcast client written in Go.
It provides a Bubble Tea interface for browsing, subscribing to and playing podcasts. Podcast details and episode information are stored in a local SQLite database, while mpv handles audio playback.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Terminal user interface built with Bubble Tea.
- Parses RSS and Atom podcast feeds.
- Browse and subscribe to podcasts.
- Play podcast episodes using mpv.
- Stores podcast and episode information in a SQLite database.
- Download queue for saving episodes locally.
- MPRIS support for Linux desktop media controls.
- Optional automatic feed synchronisation at startup.
- Supports periodic feed synchronisation at a configurable interval.
- Configurable audio output including PulseAudio, PipeWire, ALSA and JACK.
- Optional Discord Rich Presence integration.
- Includes 14 predefined light and dark themes.
- Supports custom themes defined using TOML files.
- Configuration file follows the XDG base directory specification.
Website: github.com/amurru/gocaster
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Developer: Ammar Zerouk
License: MIT License
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