Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

Updated version, look here: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...89&postcount=7

I wrote a simple (but fast!) podcast management and download tool, maybe someone could to try it out on their n800?

At this moment the program lets you:

- Add and remove podcast locations
- Sync new items from the podcast locations (max 2 new items to save space)
- Shows a list of downloaded podcast episodes after each sync
- Creates playlists for downloaded podcasts

Podcasts are always downloaded to /media/mmc2/podcasts-[date], and are accessible from the media player by the corresponding playlist. (This will be configurable in a next version.)

Please note:
- This program is for testing, its not complete yet! (although it works fine on my n800)
- It won't connect to the Internet automatically
- You need to have the wget package installed from http://mg.pov.lt/770/wget.install

The program uses bashpodder (http://www.lincgeek.org/bashpodder) as its backend. (included in the package)

You can download the .deb installation file from: here.

Screenshots:
http://www.wsys.nl/podsync/screenshot1.png
http://www.wsys.nl/podsync/screenshot3.png

Let me know what you think, and if it works for you :-)

edit: updated to 0.0.2, added wget dependency in op

Re: New N800 podcast software ready for testing ...
 

Any ideas if this would or does work on the 770? :D

Re: New N800 podcast software ready for testing ...
 

I think it should, but I am unable to test it. (Only have an n800) Could you try it and post the results here?

Re: New N800 podcast software ready for testing ...
 

Cool, I'll try this out tonight on my N800 and try to post my results.

Re: New N800 podcast software ready for testing ...
 

I will give this a go tonight, as I've just started podcasting about the N800. This could be a very very handy tool!

Re: New N800 podcast software ready for testing ...
 

Works great -- just as you described on my n800... looking forward to the next version. Thanks!

Re: New N800 podcast software ready for testing ...
 

Updated version 0.0.5 is now available!

New features:

- Shows the progress while downloading podcasts
- Creates 2 playlists after each sync:
- "New podcasts" contains newly downloaded items
- "All podcasts" contains all downloaded podcasts
- Settings dialog
- Download location is now configurable
- Number of podcast downloads is now also configurable

You can use the media player and the automatically created playlists to listen to podcasts and delete podcasts you've listen to.

Please note:
- You still need to have the wget package installed from http://mg.pov.lt/770/wget.install (although curl is now used for downloading)
- Still doesn't connect to the internet automatically
- This is still beta software!

The program uses bashpodder (http://www.lincgeek.org/bashpodder) as its backend. (included in the package)

You can download the new .deb installation file from: here.

New screenshots:
http://www.wsys.nl/podsync/screenshot5.png
http://www.wsys.nl/podsync/screenshot4.png

Let me know if it works for you :-) (Or request new features!)

Also, could someone please tell me if this works on the n770?

Re: New N800 podcast software ready for testing ...
 

It would be awesome to support importing OPML files of my podcasts so I don't have to manually copy and paste 15 to 20 feeds. :) Just a suggestion. Keep up the great work!

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

Good suggestion, I'm looking into this :-)

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

Works on my N800

A few things

1) the idea of new and all playlists is excellent.
2) i was used to iTunes' logic

2.1 build the list of available podcasts
2.2 provide the description
2.3 autodownload the first from each source
2.4 enqueue those that I would also like

3 downloads may not always work. Or maybe failed because I had already manually downloaded

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

what's the status on Chinook support?

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

sorry, does not work at all for me:
download, install looks good, I paste a new feed in the list, podysnc checks the feed, but does not find any new episodes in a perfectly maintained rss feed:

http://static.orf.at/podcast/oe1/oe1_journale.xml

always shows me "downloaded epsiodes: none"

any hints? thank you.

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

Hmm, on first sight I don't see anything going wrong.

Did you also install the "wget" package?

Let me know if it still does not work (or if wget was installed) :-)

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

I get the same exact thing. I have 'wget' installed too and two working feeds give the same result as you.

Any ideas?

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

Did you manage to get this working? Still no luck here and I'm curious to get it working.

Thanks!

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

Strange, I tested the URL you mentioned, and it works without any problems for me.

Could you run "/usr/lib/podsync/sync_podcast.sh http://static.orf.at/podcast/oe1/oe1_journale.xml 2" from a terminal on your N800, and send the output to me?

Also I've updated podsync to 0.0.6 for OS2008 only, maybe that solves the problem. (Download from http://www.wsys.nl/podsync/Podsync-0.0.6.all.deb)

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

I installed the 0.0.7 but had the problem with previous version :

Some rss pages works fine, but some are failing to really donwload the mp3 files (I only get a 1Ko file) even if it seems OK (apart downloading in 1 sec !!)

URL OK : http://cba.fro.at/rss/entriesfrombro...ndungen_id=186
URL problem : http://i94bar.podbean.com/feed/

Any help welcome.

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

Tried this on N770 running OS 2007 HE. Installed without an error but does not start up

Re: Updated PodSync version available (was: New N800 podcast software ready...)
 

Thanks for Podsync. It is one of the programs I can't be without on my n800 :)

I wanted to bring 2 items to your attention.

1. Linux Basement Podcasts never make it into the Playlists. I am not exactly sure why, but it may have something to do with how they are named. There is a '+-+' where ever a <space> would be. If you could, please checkout linuxbasement.com.

2. On occasion, collecting the podcasts to download hangs. I usually end up having to remove the url and re-add it later. I would like to request 2 enhancements. The first is to setup some kind of timeout on requesting an rss feed to check for downloads and maybe a popup message indicating the app failed to reach a particular feed.

The second request is for selectively updating only certain feeds. This could be just a refresh for one feed at a time, or checkboxes indicating which feeds check.

Thanks for your help and please let me know if I can answer any questions.