After trying out some crap gui and other podcast subscription tools, I
got pointed at bashpodder. I was almost starting to create a script
myself, so it came in handy.

I did make quite a lot of changes to make it a bit more useful for
myself, and maybe you want to see the result.

Some magic was performed to include a (somewhat crippled still)
bittorrent download support. Also I inclused a re-encoding feature that
may not be useful for many, but my mp3player is a bit old and doesn't
want to play stereo mp3's if they're not sampled at 44100Hz. As a result
I almost always have to re-encode the podcasts that I get in.

To make testing easier and satisfy people who like to see what their
script is doing, i include a verbose and a quiet setting. The quiet
setting makes the wget and lame processing quiet, the verbose setting
tells users what the script is doing. To avoid confusion, I made the two
options mutually exclusive.

As a result, this script does depend on more than just bash and wget;
to use all the features you also need lame, bittorrent (an ncurses based
bittorrent client that comes with debian), and screen.