All I want is a podcatcher that will download the podcasts I want at regular intervals and save them in specific folders that I specify. I also want to be able to specify how many podcasts to keep and have it delete older ones as newer ones are downloaded.

Amarok does all of this, however, at least last I checked there is a bug that makes amarok randomly crash whenever I have it setup to auto download podcasts.

Hpodder does pretty much everything I want, but I can't seem to get it to run correctly with cron.

Any suggestions?

Have a look at podget. It's command line but all you do is set up the config file with the address and cron runs it when you want. The pod casts will be sitting in a folder in /home waiting for you.

Yes, I've played with Podget a little bit and hpodder does basically the same thing. The problem I'm having is getting it to work with cron correctly. Which cron file do I edit?

You could install gcrontab. It's a graphical front end to cron. It should allow you to easily set up times to check and d/l podcasts.

I'll give that a try. Thanks eriefisher.