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Good news - resuming audio playback now works.. kind of

I've hacked together a small python script that plays back audio files and remembers the playback position on close and pause. This makes it possible to listen to podcasts, stop them, close down the player and later continue to listen where you last stopped.

Download and screenshot: http://thpinfo.com/2008/maemo/#resumingplayer

Instructions for getting this to work with gPodder are also available on that page. Basically, you just download the python file to your home folder, make it executable and then set up the advanced gPodder preferences to use the resuming media player for playback.

Missing Downloads (June 16th)
I just updated GPodder and most of my downloaded podcasts are no longer listed, even the ones I had marked non-deletable. However looking in the gpodder folder I can see the mp3 files are still there. Any idea why they are not listed and if there is any setting I can adjust.
GPodder is really useful and by far the most convenient way of downloading and listening to podcasts especially with the player modification. Kudos to the authors.

Sorry for that bug, fixed in gpodder_0.11.3-maemo1, which should be available on Maemo Extas shortly.

Thanks for the update.
Partial success.
I have three podcast subscriptions. The second and third now show all the downloaded podcasts. But the first subscription only shows one podcast and there are six in the folder.
Please take another look at it.
TIA

After another upgrade to the latest version available in Maemo Extras now, is it working now?

It's Thursday morning (London time) and no update has appeared since my current version which is 0.11.3. which has the problem mentioned above.

2 quick questions... I'm unable to edit the podcast's descriptions - thhe keyboard won't come up. Is there a work-arund?

Also, one podcast is shown in red colored font, but I can't seem to discover why. Prolly obvious, but explanation escapes me

Please post the console output (gpodder --verbose --maemo) when running gPodder here. Also, try re-downloading the affected episodes and see if this re-adds the file (it should if the file really exists).

The podcast description field (just like the episode description field) is read-only. You cannot edit it. That's a feature, not a bug. You can edit the podcast title if you wish to do so.

The description of the error appears in the tooltip in the Desktop version, of course it doesn't happen on ITs. Red color means some error with the feed (for example, the server sent the wrong character encoding, etc..). Other errors like 404 are also shown by having a "red" podcast in the list.

console output:

~ $ gpodder --verbose --maemo
[ 1.739] Using ISO-8859-15 as encoding. If this
[ 1.740] is incorrect, please set your $LANG variable.[ 2.096] (gPodderLib) Creating gPodderLib()
[ 2.396] (ConverterCollection) Could not find "oggdec", ".ogg" files cannot be converted.
[ 2.403] (tagupdate) eyed3 not found -- tag update disabled
[ 2.418] (gpodder.sync) Could not find gpod
[ 2.497] (gpodder.sync) Could not find pymad
[ 2.501] (gpodder.sync) Could not find eyeD3
[ 2.638] Patching feedparser module... (mapContentType bugfix)
[ 3.652] Cannot find pynotify. Please install the python-notify package.
[ 3.653] 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)
[ 5.886] (gPodder) I cannot set has-tooltip/query-tooltip (need at least PyGTK 2.12)
[ 6.936] (gPodder) auto_update_procedure() got called
[ 7.315] (Cache) Using cached feed: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/rss.xml
[ 7.599] (Cache) Using cached feed: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/...atters/rss.xml
[ 7.810] (Cache) Using cached feed: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/...neybox/rss.xml
[ 8.776] (podcastChannel) Generating TreeModel for http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/rss.xml
[ 9.742] start reader
[ 9.800] (UserAppsReader) Player found: /usr/share/applications/xmms.desktop
[ 9.847] (UserAppsReader) Player found: /usr/share/applications/xmms-pl.desktop
[ 9.856] end reader (benchmark: 0.1133 seconds)

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I cannot redownload the podcasts as they only stay at the bbc for 1 week.

Thanks for you trying to track down the bug.