Hi, how can I transfer a downloaded podcast to an mp4 player, currently using ubuntu
Do you have any idea what application you’re talking about? or what mp3 player you’re talking about?
The biggest issue with podcasts will be the naming conventions; for example, my phone does podcasts using PocketCasts, and the filenames are gibberish (for internal use only) despite being mp3 files.
But really, you have to work out how or if you can connect your ‘mp4 player’ and copy files to it yourself, as you gave no information that’ll allow anyone to guess.
My experience, however, is that it’s better to use the device as a Podcast device rather than download on the computer and transfer files.
It’s trivial to connect (my phone) via bluetooth and play podcasts via the computer, not so much the other way around.
Example, if you use Kasts:
Storage location is set in settings - mine is /mnt/T4/Kasts
Then I could enter that folder /enclosures/The Archers/07112025.mp3 would be today’s episode of The Archers.
So I’d drag that folder to the location on my phone (which generally I’d connect via USB-C for the task).
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My apologies if my initial post was short on details. The mp3 player I’ve used is an AGPTEK U3 8GB mp3 player. The distro on the laptop is ubuntu 24.04 and the podcast media players I’ve used are Rhythmbox and when that did not work tried MusicPod. Previously, I was able to transfer podcasts I had downloaded from iTunes to the AGPTEK MP3 player and they played fine ( this was iTunes on Windows 10).
Now, I download podcasts to my ubuntu laptop using either Rhythmbox or Musicpod, they end up in the Music folder. Then I plug the mp3 player into the ubuntu laptop, the device is recognized by the laptop. I have tried either clicking on an individual podcast episode and select copy to, I select the AGPTEK device and it copies to the mp3 player or I clicked on a podcast and dragged it to the mp3 player.
While the mp3 player is still connected to the laptop I check the contents on it and the podcasts are on the device. I eject the mp3 player and turn it on and press play and the device says disk is empty.
Then check the file formats, check the correct folder for your device, and consider re-formatting the audio files to other formats to see how that goes…
AFAIK it’s just plugin and copy, and be sure to ‘safely eject’ because it could be that the files didn’t get written properly.