[gpodder-devel] Handling episodes that are no longer in index
- From: michel.salim at gmail.com (Michel Salim)
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:59:44 -0400
Some podcasts (e.g. BBC's Newsnight video podcast,
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc2/newsnightvideopodcast/rss.xml)
only make available the last N episodes (in this case, n=3).
Right now gPodder does not delete the episodes that have disappeared
from the index, but does not keep any metadata about those episodes.
Unless the user knows where exactly on the download folder to find
them, they're just sitting there wasting disk space.
I'm not sure how to handle this, really. The best way might be to keep
two indices -- both start out being copies of the upstream index, but
one is kept in sync with upstream while the other has episodes added
to it but never deleted.
Perhaps make it a user choice whether to automatically remove
no-longer-available episodes?
Thanks,
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Michel Salim
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