Fremantle Stars/gPodder
The current version is 0.16.1-4fremantleui in Fremantle Extras-Devel.
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Already Working
- Welcome screen at first start / when subscription list empty
- Find new podcasts - with podcast directory + YouTube search
- Login to my.gpodder.org and download subscription list
- App menu in main window
- Check for new episodes (update feeds; show progress in titlebar; offer new episodes)
- Downloads (opens the download status list; shows status as gray text)
- Add new podcast (subscribe to a podcast by entering/pasting the feed URL)
- Unsubscribe (remove the subscription and downloads of the selected podcast)
- Preferences (Set up audio and media player)
- About gPodder (About dialog.. nothing more)
- Podcast directory (OPML from web; suggested podcasts; top podcasts; YouTube subscriptions)
- Main window UI
- Left pane lists podcasts, right pane lists episodes in selected podcast
- Clicking on an episode opens its shownotes in a new stackable window
- Episode shownotes UI
- Has image of podcast, title of episode + podcast, shownotes
- Appmenu has: Play/Stream; Download/Cancel/Delete; Pause/Resume; Do not download/Mark as new; Open website (does this work with the browser??)
- Download status UI
- List of current downloads (queued, downloading, finished, paused, cancelled, failed)
- Clicking on an item opens the shownotes window
- Appmenu has: Pause all; Resume all; Cancel all; Clean up list (removes all with status: cancelled, finished, failed)
Advanced features:
- Close gPodder while downloads are running; on next startup, it asks you to resume the downloads
Known problems
Fixed problems/ChangeLog
- Installation fails on postinst[3] (fixed in 0.16.1-3fremantleui)
- Don't use "I" while writing messages from software (bug 4684; fixed in 0.16.1-4fremantleui)
Planned/Ideas
- Integration with MAFW (downloaded episodes as MafwSource/MafwPlaylist?) -- depends on bug 4675
- Automatic updating in the background (depending on cellular/wlan connection?)
- Tablet-related content (Tablet School video podcast?) -- needs content publishers to provide their content as video podcast
Need Help
- Playback + Streaming (How to interface with the Media Player in Maemo 5?)
- Better podcast directory - please suggest feeds[4]
- HTML shownotes - is there a "good" HTML widget for PyMaemo?
- UI feedback