Software for podcasting?
 

I am a big fan of radio talkshow podcasts (also eg The Economist and other magazines offer nice treats). Nokia N-series phones have a well-functioning s60 3rd software for managing podcasts, does anyone know of anything to help with them in N810?

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

There are a few:
Gpodder
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/gpodder/

VideoCenter
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/videocenter/

Canola2
http://openbossa.indt.org.br/canola2/

I personally use VideoCenter for my audio podcasts and it works well, but I'm thinking about going back to gpodder just because of the ease of downloading new episodes and deleting old ones.

EDIT: Oops, I forgot about podsync... I haven't tried it yet though.
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...hlight=podcast

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

Here's the differences for the ones that I've used:

Canola2 can only stream (as far as I can tell).

podsync is kinda barebones but it works well and it generates playlists for the media player after it's done (one for newest podcasts and one for all downloaded podcasts to date.)

I've just gotten started with gpodder and it seems to be pretty good. It's got more options than podsync but i does seem to occasionally don the crashy pants.

One of the major differences between gpodder and podsync is gpodder lets you select and download individual tracks from a list of available ones. With podsync you set a number that you want to have, say the newest 3, and it batch downloads those. There are trade-offs, podsync is simpler to use (IMO) but doesn't have the granularity of control that gpodder or canola has.

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

Also, gpodder takes forever and a day to startup. I just usually leave it open and minimized.
The only other annoying glitch I find with gpodder is that when it's checking for new shows, the progress bar stays above all other windows and gets in the way until it finishes checking the feeds.

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

I have tried them all and I prefer to use VideoCenter. Runs smoothly and without errors.

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

Hi,

I tried (and hate now) gpodder!

gpodder is slow, inflexible and stupid - why? I'll write a few examples:

• Slow: takes forever to start, update etc. - uses CPU resources like crazy.
• Inflexible: You can't select download locations or rename streams.
• Stupid: The latter (renaming streams) would be a very important feature for gpodder, as it names the streams (somehow) after the website it gets them from. If I try to add several different podcasts from www.tagesschau.de, they all get the same name and gpodder only downloads files from the stream first added - although it displays different URLs in the settings...
• Stupid: gpodder has no way display the text infos sent with the podcasts (overview, info texts).

Up to now I didn't know videocenter was such a cool application!

I installed it and it just works, also has a nice design, navigation is great and is able to add several podcasts from the same website (it even names the podcasts correctly - so this is a feature and gpodder obviously can't interpret this feature correctly) and you can read some info on the podcast before you download.

I'm so glad I found out videocenter also supports podcasts - thought it was only for playing videos from media servers at home...

Cheers

Franko30

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

Hi again,

sorry for crossposting, but:

I've just added a wiki page on podcast aggregators:

http://internettablettalk.com/wiki/i...sten_on_the_go

Feel free to contribute.

Cheers

Franko30

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

Canola can also download podcasts. I don't have my N800 here, but as far as I can remember, you can click a play button to stream or a downside arrow to download. In fact, I've downloaded many Leo Laporte's shows with it, no problem at all.

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

I just used Canola to download some diggnation podcasts and it worked just fine. You get a "down" arrow to download, and a "trash bin" to delete an existing file. I had trouble scrolling down, seems that the way to do it is by dragging (no scroll bar on the side). It also had some bugs with the icons on the side but after restart everything was fine. I'm looking forward to the next update to Canola. It's really a nice app.

Re: Software for podcasting?
 

VideoCenter works, but it tends to truncate the names of the episodes in the play list, so it's hard to tell which episode is what for some shows.
Also, it takes a while to flip thru the list of shows if you just want to see a list of new/old episodes in the video(podcast) list.
Plus it's hard to delete shows. With Gpodder, I just highlight a few and click the delete button when I'm done. With videocenter, you have to dig trough menus to delete.

I'm by NO means saying gpodder is the best, but it works for me.

While I think this is harsh, I do agree with your sentiments below.