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	handful	2008-02-03 , 06:46
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Marcelo,

Thanks to you and the Canola team for this release. I look forward to the day when it is feature complete, but it seems that there is enough working to make it a viable media app.

Thanks we are quite aware that important things are missing, but we need the continuos contribution like yours to make sure we are in the right path.

I have had a couple of issues:

When I had Canola-Tuning pull album covers it put the same cover on all of the Podcasts I had saved in my Music folder (the cover for LUGRadio, which if you are going to pick a Podcast picture to use is a good podcast, but not what the Podcasts actually were.)

Yes, I agree with you. For this I propose 2 things:
1) avoid your podcast to be scanned (but of course you may say you don't want to do that...) and then in next versions will you will be able to download a picture and pick from file to "apply" to a podcast....

2) maybe we can add to the edit form a "Apply image to this podcast" then you can also choose the best image for the task, but this actually is not that different from the first solution

I got this error:
IO error (errno 21): Is a directory
trying to download this podcast: http://feeds.waywordradio.org/awwwpodcast
but had success with all of the other podcasts I tried.

Looks like a bug. Can you open a bug in garage? When you open there, it makes a deeper contract with us, and bugs (more then features) are better to be there.. (features here)

I have one album that I ripped with soundjuicer, that is not showing up in Canola. It is an mp3, and the info shows up on my desktop. Not sure why I can't see it in Canola. All of my other music seems to appear.

Can you send me the files? I think I can add to the test and see if our scanner is missing. But AFAIK I think the latest version ever of id3 was not supported currently... maybe we will also need to improve this.

And I have a few questions/feature requests:

-How do I tell if there are new podcasts to download without going to each podcast and checking?

-Can I mark a podcast as viewed/listened to, so when a new podcast shows up I know to go download it? (all of the podcast feeds I've added are showing episodes I've already downloaded with the feedreader, and I don't want to download them again)

I placed this both together because we are including this in the next update: the ability to have a download view, dynamic playlist for podcast and this "not listened" or "new" states.

Also the playlist is going to be available maybe not on this one.. but in the second update. It seems simple but we want to make sure it's not only a playlist editor.. but a component that can be used by plugins.

-I would like to be able to create a playlist from my downloaded podcasts so that I can put a list together before I start driving. I have an hour long commute, and it is tough if a podcast ends to have to navigate to another one to start it playing (and dangerous).

The last part of the comment was about that. Actually I haven't think about playlist inside the podcast but this indeed makes a lot of sense. Of course if you scan your podcast folder.. you get them on music and then you can do a playlist with our planned support.. but maybe it's even nicer to have it already there.

-I also think it would be nice to have a list of all downloaded podcasts, so that I don't have to navigate to each podcast to see which I haven't seen/listened to, but have been downloaded.

yeah, this is also on the plan (dynamic lists) for current downloading, downloaded, new, etc...

Thanks again for the great work,
Hal

We also thank you for dedicating time to send us valuable feedback.

BR

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