[gpodder-devel] Channel covers don't show up?
- From: pdedecker at gmail.com (Pieter De Decker)
- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:07:06 +0100
Hi,
I can hook you up with some links to online radio stations (no talk) and
non-mainstream podcasts that are worth listening to. The radio landscape
is not as messed up over here in Belgium as it is in the USA, but it's
getting worse.
Fortunately, there's this alternative radio station called Studio
Brussel that doesn't go with the flow. I usually tune in to their
breakfast show for a couple of minutes every morning before getting out
of bed. You might want to give their weekly "best of" podcast a try.
Just let me know if you're interested. It's the only mainstream podcast
I can friggin' stand listening to for more than five minutes.
I've never been to the USA so I have no idea what commercial radio
sounds like over there, but I imagine it sounding like Q-Music. I don't
know if you're familiar with that radio station; they branched out to
The Netherlands a few years ago. Anyhow, it's the most brain-dead radio
station I've ever listened to. And their podcasts sound alike. It's all
segmented and they keep playing the same songs for three months in a
row. Ugh.
Pieter
---
Wilfred van Rooijen schreef:
> Hey Pieter,
>
> OK, so I *specifically* chose the wrong channel to try
> the cover feature. Speaking of luck.
>
> I live in the States but I am originally from The
> Netherlands (as you've guessed correctly in your
> mail). The radio landscape here is a barren landscape.
> All commercial radio stations are crap, too highly
> formatted. It's like McDonalds: you know *exactly*
> what you're going to get when tuning in, but it's all
> low quality.
>
> Podcasting seems to be very popular here, but the big
> drawback is that it is very difficult to judge what is
> good and what is bad. Also the technical side I don't
> like. Most podcasts are 96 kbps or lower, so although
> I have a super-duper internet connection, high-tech
> iPod, I can surf around the world in 80 milliseconds,
> I am still listening to something that sounds like an
> AM-radio or worse.
>
> Anyway. I'll try the pacific coast once - see what
> happens :-)).
>
> Cheers,
> Wilfred
>
> --- Pieter De Decker <pdedecker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wilfred,
>>
>> Actually, I didn't use the regular feed icon for
>> Pacific Coast Hellway.
>> I used the PCH logo on
>>
> http://www.podshow.com/images/shows/85/shows/small/pacificcoasthellway.png?dd57b9b2f9e19c05a7f5e980ed65387e
>> and then dragged it to the cover tab.
>>
>> So there's your problem. :)
>>
>> On a totally unrelated note: Pacific Coast Hellway
>> is kind of a
>> controversial show. They used to have an announcer
>> voice saying "this
>> show is intended for mature audiences only" at the
>> beginning of their
>> podcasts but that disappeared. While PCH is really
>> funny (not "Dawn and
>> Drew" funny, *really* funny; het zijn dan ook geen
>> lalala-praatshows),
>> the show's somewhat perverted. But I digress.
>>
>> Pieter
>>
>> ---
>> Wilfred van Rooijen schreef:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I took a look at Pieter's screendump and noticed
>> the
>>> little icons for each channel. So then I thought:
>> I
>>> want that also. I subscribed to pacific coast
>> hellway
>>> (because Pieter has an icon for that, so I know it
>>> exists), the channel was updated, and I clicked
>> 'edit
>>> pacific coast hellway -> cover -> download cover',
>> and
>>> this is the restult:
>>>
>>> (podcastChannel) Loading downloaded episodes for
>>> http://feeds.feedburner.com/pacificcoasthellway
>>> (podcastChannel) Loading downloaded episodes for
>>> http://feeds.feedburner.com/pacificcoasthellway
>>> Trying to get settings for
>>> http://feeds.feedburner.com/pacificcoasthellway
>>> Downloading cover to
>>>
> /home/rooijen/gpodder-downloads/70186c7c234723128e6b085028264ec7/cover
>>> Reading cover from
>>>
> /home/rooijen/gpodder-downloads/70186c7c234723128e6b085028264ec7/cover
>>> Exception in thread Thread-4:
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line
>> 442, in
>>> __bootstrap
>>> self.run()
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line
>> 422, in
>>> run
>>> self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
>>> File
>>> "/home/rooijen/gpodder/src/gpodder/libgpodder.py",
>>> line 180, in image_download_thread
>>> pixbuf.write( open( cover_file, "r").read())
>>> GError: Unrecognized image file format
>>>
>>> I have a Gentoo system, updated to all the latest
>>> versions of everything, and did an 'svn up' prior
>> to
>>> starting gpodder. Is this normal behaviour?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wilfred
>>>
>>> --- Pieter De Decker <pdedecker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>
>>>> Here you go:
>>>>
> http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8057/gpoddershotxr9.png
>>>> I'm using Ubuntu's default theme, by the way.
>>>>
>>>> Pieter
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Thomas Perl schreef:
>>>>> Hello, Pieter!
>>>>>
>>>>> Pieter De Decker wrote:
>>>>>> Just noticed the new unplayed/played counters
>> in
>>>> the channel browser. I
>>>>>> like the new counters but I hate their default
>>>> background colors, which
>>>>>> is why I'd like to add customizable counter
>>>> colors to the list of
>>>>>> feature requests.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to change these or has this got
>>>> something to do with
>>>>>> GNOME's theme settings?
>>>>> Yes, gPodder tries to use the GTK+ theme's
>>>> "selected" color of a
>>>>> Progressbar widget, so it should look okay most
>> of
>>>> the time. Can you
>>>>> send me a link to a screenshot so I can see how
>> it
>>>> looks?
>>>>> I'd personally try to avoid adding customizable
>>>> colors, as it would add
>>>>> another configuration option the user most
>> likely
>>>> has to care about,
>>>>> although she shouldn't really. Ideally, it
>> should
>>>> fit perfectly into the
>>>>> currently selected GTK theme, that's why I tried
>>>> to use theme colors.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Thomas
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