[gpodder] Re: Playlists & two-way device synching
- From: Johannes Debler <johannes.debler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gpodder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 08:45:36 +0800
Hi Joseph,
first of all your ideas sound good. I have a few suggestions though.
I would also like to have a playlist that includes all podcasts, maybe
that is what you meant with play groups.
As for syncing. I tell you how i handled that so far with my rockbox.
All my downloaded podcasts got imported into foobar. There i sorted them
by date and created a playlist. I then used foobar to send all the
podcasts to my rockbox.
That way once i was finished with one playlist i could load that
playlist back into foobar and make foobar delete the files on the
playlist from the player. As you can see, this way i can have gpodder
download podcasts, load them to foobar, have foobar create a playlist,
send that together with the podcasts to the rockbox and once i am
finished have foobar delete the specific podcasts again. That way I am
also able to have multiple playlists, depending on how often i download
new stuff.
Therefore i would prefer if the syncing method would only create a new
playlist without interfereing with the ones that are already on the
player. That way i do not have to delete every episode by hand after i
listend to it but rather use foobar to delete everything from that
playlist after i am through with it. The playlists could be named based
on the date and time they were created to avoid confusion.
Cheers
Johannes
Am 19.08.2012 02:07, schrieb Joseph Wickremasinghe:
>
> So, now that device synching is back in gPodder, I'm looking at adding in the
> playlist functionality, and also use that to implement two-way synching. I
> want playlists to be organized loosely at the podcast level, for example 'all
> episodes from a given podcast', 'all new episodes', 'all episodes from a
> selected group of podcasts', rather than allowing the user to selectively
> pick and chose episodes across individual podcasts. Of course, someone else
> may want to add that in, but that's not how I would use playlists.
>
> Here's what I'm thinking of (for filesystem-based mp3 players). PLease review
> and let me know your comments and / or suggestions:
>
> 1. gPodder will by default create one playlist per podcast.
> 1a. Could also implement 'play groups' (as per Zachary Lombardo), by allowing
> the user to name the playlist for each podcast. If multiple podcasts have a
> playlist with the same name, they will be combined into the same playlist.
> 2. The playlist will reflect the order of the episodes as currently viewed in
> the interface, most likely in release order, so that the playlist will start
> at the oldest episode and end at the newest.
> 3. Could also have a standard 'just new episodes' playlist.
>
> Implementation of two-way syncing:
>
> 4. When a episode is downloaded and synched, it is added to the standard
> playlist for that podcast which is then written to the device.
> 5. After the user has played that episode on their device, they can delete
> that episode from their device.
> 6. At the next sync, gPodder will then compare the standard podcast-specific
> playlists on the device (as written by gPodder during the last sync), with
> the episodes on the device. If there is an episode referenced in the playlist
> that is no longer on the device, gPodder will assume that the episode has
> already been synced and subsequently deleted from the device, and will hence
> mark that episode as deleted in gPodder.
> 7. At the next sync, the playlists will be refreshed based on the downloaded,
> undeleted episodes in gPodder, and the cycle begins again...
>
> As I mentioned earlier, please let me know your comments.
>
> J.
>
>
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