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Posts: 48 | Thanked: 12 times | Joined on Jan 2008 @ Germany
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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