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Panucci problem or gPodder problem, I don't know: When I try to play a podcast in gPodder, Panucci pops up for a moment, then disappears, and nothing plays. I've re-installed both. Problem persists.

I'm running Diablo. Everything worked fine until a couple days ago.

(I'm having the problem on my mmc-based OS. The device-based OS works fine. Could installing flite or maemo-mapper have caused the problem?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I sure do like this app combo. Thanks!

Can you please try running gPodder in your "X Terminal" (in Utilities), like this:

This should (hopefully) give you some output on what's wrong. Please also check if your disk is full. If you don't mind removing all your bookmarks/resume points, try removing/renaming the file ".rmp-bookmarks" in "/home/user/" (rename and try to see if this is causing problems). The file ".rmp-bookmarks" is used by Panucci to store information about resume points and bookmarks.

Thanks for getting back to me on your great program (and my problem therewith). Renaming ".rmp-bookmarks" did not correct the problem. The disk is not full. Here's what "gpodder --verbose --maemo" got me:

$ gpodder --verbose --maemo
[ 1.711] Using ISO-8859-15 as encoding. If this
[ 1.712] is incorrect, please set your $LANG variable.
[ 2.268] (gPodderLib) Creating gPodderLib()
[ 2.637] (ConverterCollection) Could not find "oggdec", ".ogg" files cannot be converted.
[ 2.647] (tagupdate) eyed3 not found -- tag update disabled
[ 2.742] (gpodder.sync) Could not find gpod
[ 2.747] (gpodder.sync) Could not find pymtp.
[ 2.752] (gpodder.sync) Could not find pymad
[ 2.810] (gpodder.sync) Could not find eyeD3
[ 2.937] Patching feedparser module... (mapContentType bugfix)
[ 4.134] Cannot find pynotify. Please install the python-notify package.
[ 4.135] Notification bubbles have been disabled.
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/SimpleGladeApp.py:337: GtkWarning: Mixing deprecated and non-deprecated GtkToolbar API is not allowed
return gtk.glade.XML(self.glade_path, root, domain)
[ 6.763] (gPodder) I cannot set has-tooltip/query-tooltip (need at least PyGTK 2.12)
[ 8.440] (podcastChannel) Returning TreeModel for http://www.democracynow.org/podcast.xml
[ 8.651] (gPodder) auto_update_procedure() got called
[ 10.611] start reader
[ 10.647] end reader (benchmark: 0.0364 seconds)
[ 10.909] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...009-0129-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)
[ 10.996] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...009-0127-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)
[ 11.268] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...009-0113-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)


... [I deleted a bunch of these that were all about the same]

[ 65.261] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...008-1107-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)
[ 65.577] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...008-1103-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/panucci", line 27, in <module>
panucci.run(filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/panucci/panucci.py", line 968, in run
m = GTK_Main(bus_name, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/panucci/panucci.py", line 249, in __init__
self.make_main_window()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/panucci/panucci.py", line 425, in make_main_window
self.volume = gtk.VolumeButton()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'VolumeButton'
[ 863.869] (Storage) Optimizing database for faster startup.
Exception exceptions.TypeError: TypeError("'NoneType' object is not callable",) in <bound method Popen.__del__ of <subprocess.Popen object at 0x41941050>> ignored
~ $



Any thoughts? It looked to me (and I have no idea what any of this means) like I needed to get pyGTK or pynotify or python-notify. I couldn't find any of those in the Gronmayer repositories. So I installed python2.5sqlite2 (figuring, what the hell!), but my panucci problem persists.

Blame it on the ugly packager (that'd be me . Make sure python2.5-hildon is installed. After that, it should work

I didn't see python2.5-hildon in installed or installlable apps, even though I have the proper catalogues, even in red pill mode. So I guessed and entered

/home/user # apt-get install python2.5-hildon

but it didn't help. Here's what I got:

/home/user # apt-get install python2.5-hildon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python2.5-hildon is already the newest version.
python2.5-hildon set to manual installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
initfs-flasher libspeex1 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-speex
kernel-diablo-flasher libepeg0 python-dateutil flash-and-reboot
libimlib2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
/home/user #

Hmm, strange. I assume you have the latest panucci package version from Maemo Extras, right? Try the following in xterm:

Does this fail?

If so, try this (a workaround, ideally install the corresponding "osso-software-version-XXXX" package for your tablet - rx34, rx44 or rx44):

This is how we detect we're running on Maemo. Maemo unfortunately does not provide lsb_release. I've filed a bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4078

Thanks, thp!

worked!

One other thing I thought of that might be helpful. I noticed that each time I un- and re-installed gPodder and panucci, it would return with panucci filled in as the player and with all my Episodes listed. Which means I was never doing a clean install.

It turns out I don't need a clean install since everything works again (hooray!), but where is that stuff stored if I wanted to do a clean install? It returned even after I had deleted the file ".rmp-bookmarks" and renamed /media/mmc2/gpodder.

Thanks again!!

The gPodder config is in ~/.config/gpodder (i.e. /home/user/.config/gpodder). In there, there should be two or three files:

* channels.opml (a list of your subscriptions, easily transferrable)
* database.sqlite (information about subscriptions, episodes, etc...)
* gpodder.conf (configuration file, like which media player is set, ...)

If you delete gpodder.conf, the configuration will be reset, and if you delete database.sqlite, episode information and subscription information will be deleted. channels.opml is only used to restore the subscription list in case of problems and is always updated, so that every user has the freedom to ditch gPodder and use some other application that supports importing OPML files

I think to really make Panucci a better podcast player is to make it play podcast straight from the gpodder "database.db". Panucci will be able to play all downloaded podcast without switching app. At the same time it could update the database and let gpodder know that not to delete a podcast and entry xyz was played.

I cannot even play the gpodder generated playlist. When driving I like to keep my eyes on the road, fiddling with gpodder to play the next podcast force me to use the build in player.

Thanks

I have a directory with a bunch of mp3 files. When I try to
use Panucci to open a file there, it doesn't display the filename,
but instead apparently the initial part of its MP3 tag.
Since it only shows the first ~20 characters ("The blah blah blah
show...") there's no way to tell one file from another.

There's two information lines, and both of them show the same
truncated string.

You should either scroll the whole MP3 tag, or better yet,
scroll the whole filename on the first line, and the whole
MP3 tag contents on the second line. Something like that.

Thanks!