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Same here, the player is useless.
Bug report was opened on August, last commit in July, I guess Panucci is not actively developed.

That's true. There's nobody actively working on Panucci at the moment. gPodder users are advised to use the built-in Media Player, which now has (in combination with gPodder) resuming support.

If somebody wants to take over development of Panucci, please drop me a line or join #gpodder on Freenode

The 0.9 branch isn't stable, so even if you want to use Panucci, please use 0.3.x. Thanks!

That's very sad. Panucci is at the moment still the best audio player for podcasts. I'm using 0.3.x with all his faults in my car only because 0.9 has no support for Bluetooth buttons.

I hope somebody will integrate the support for play/pause and to jump several seconds per press via Bluetooth again to Panucci 0.9 in the future.

Using the build in Media Player is a pain. If I press and hold the Button at my car stereo to rewind several seconds, mostly it rewinds about a minute and not only some seconds. Sometimes it is still rewinding if I have already released the Button. And if I press it to short the podcast is back at the beginning and I don't know how far I must move this small bar at the N900 touchscreen to get back to the point it has stopped. AWFUL!

Panucci has clearly the better solution to rewind in fixed steps if you simply haven't understand the last sentence.

My feelings exactly.

Does anyone know how hard it would be to make the 'auto-play on headset' function work with ordinary headphones and not just headsets? I'm no developer but I'd love to implement this on my version if it was just a case of replacing some code in a system file if some kind soul could point me in the the right direction.

Thinking out loud: What if someone were to come up with a car-friendly UI that remote controls the built-in media player?

Hmm... this sounds interesting. But I guess the integration wouldn't be easy regarding the Bluetooth support. How to avoid that the built-in Media Player reacts at the Bluetooth commands from the Car-Stereo?

It should be a background daemon without UI that intercept the "rewind" and "forward" signal and send's commands to the Media Player to rewind or forward only 10 seconds. Hmm...

The question is, is it easier to migrate the bluetooth code from panucci 0.3.17 to the current version or to manipulate the built-in player using a small daemon in the background?

Okay, if this is possible only a Menu at gPodder would be missing to reopen the last played track.
Or has anybody else still a good reason to use Panucci? Anything the built-in media player is unable to do?

Oh you are just after the Bluetooth control? That should not be too hard to forward-port (I'm not saying that I'm going to do it). Do YOU want to do it? I'll happily (very happily in fact!) guide you through the process if you don't know how where to start, and chances are that you might learn something along the way

I thought the remaining reason why people used Panucci were the bigger UI elements compared to the built-in Media Player. Talk about not knowing your user base

YES! Otherwise I haven't found any lack of features I would miss or other bugs. If the playlist stuff is still to faulty and not fixable we could remove it completly and use it only as a normal player. (a player that knows what track was played the last time and where it has stopped)

I tried already my luck early September this year. Your progress was not fast enought for me and I thought I have only to compare and to integrate the removed code to the right places to create my own hack and provide it here for others as soon as I have finished my work.
I found your Bluetooth code at the old version and tried to integrate the code to the new version. But I'm a .NET Programmer and I have only rudimentary python knowledge. I know PyQt and the Signal and Slots concept from Qt4. But I guess the GTK stuff was to different or I have overseen the salient point. But I must say I gave up after a half day without any kind of success and thought I should better wait for the professional Panucci artist.

Thanks a lot for your offer!

I guess I should give it a new try. Before Christmas I'm very busy. (and I still need some gifts) But as soon as I find some spare time I will look again into your code and will ask where my problems lie.

The bigger Buttons are nice, but they are not the unique power feature.
Thanks for your hard work so far.

The reason why I am using Panucci is because it can play my m4a-podcasts which the original media player isn't able to play.

Here is the bug report I opened 1 year ago. Still not fixed, so won't be fixed. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6640

I wonder why other people don't seem to have problems with their (video-)podcasts...

Maybe you can point me and Helmuth into the right direction to get bluetooth headset support back.

Eureka!

I guess I have managed to integrate the Bluetooth stuff from panucci 0.3.17 into the newest release (panucci 0.9-alpha1)

I know now my mistake from early September. It was to silly. So please, don't ask!

It's working here with a small headset. I'll test it tomorrow again with my car stereo but I'm very confident so far.

I'm not sure if Thomas would agree how I have tinkered the code into his blessed Application. (I'm very unsure with all this GTK and Python stuff - so please forgive me if it's to ugly done - don't forget, I normally use .NET at Windows machines)

How to install?

• Ensure you have already installed panucci 0.9-alpha1 from Extra Devel
  
• Take the 2 *.py files from the ZIP File in the attachment and move them to /opt/panucci/lib/panucci (and overwrite the existing files) - you must have root privileges to overwrite those files!

Thats it. If it isn't anymore working try to start panucci from the command line and watch out for errors.

Please uninstall panucci and reinstall it from extras or extra-devel if you want to revert the modifications.

If you don't know how to follow the install steps above I'm sorry. I don't want to break your device. And I'm afraid that I'm probably unable to help if something gone wrong and your knowledge is to weak. If you're able to follow the upper instructions without problems the whole thing should be very sure.
So please be patient and let test this modification first some skilled and brave people. If everything is working without additional problems and Bugs I will post more detailed instructions. But I want to wait for some positive feedback first.

Edit: Oh, and I still need a good (perfect!) christmas gift for my girlfriend. Perhaps someone could help now me with my problem.