[gpodder-devel] Arranging songs for better use on an iAudio
- From: thp at perli.net (Thomas Perl)
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:32:21 +0200
Hello, Mitch!
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 22:21 -0400, Mitch Lloyd wrote:
> This program is nearly perfect for me! I'm so glad to see someone is
> still focusing on audio for an aggregator.
>
> The feature that is missing for me is a way to arrange my podcasts so
> that they will transfer to my iAudio in chronological order--from
> oldest to newest (now they load from newest to oldest).
>
> The way it is now causes problems with my iAudio player because I can
> arrange by file_name and download date, but can't reverse the order.
> I listen to the Adam Carolla Show which releases ~12 segments a day.
> If I load them with gPodder and just let it go I would be listening to
> the segments in reverse order starting with the end of the show.
>
> I can get around this by renaming all of the files but I was hoping
> there could be a way for gpodder to handle this. Maybe if you could
> sort by the "released" column, reverse the order by clicking on that
> header and that would affect the order the files get loaded onto the
> device my problem could be solved. Even if you just allow people to
> sort like that it would be nice if people want to listen to something
> in order on their computer. Another way to get around this would be
> to have a feature that could append numbers to the front of the file
> name. I'm not sure how that would work. Maybe there would be an even
> better way to do this if my player would read ide3 tags--it doesn't.
What about prepending date and time to the filename, or would this
result in the wrong order?
Thomas
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