[gpodder-devel] gpodder-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 32
- From: bwilson at yooser.org (Ben Wilson)
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:59:30 -0500 (EST)
Hi Clark,
Thanks for the offer, but I took this as an opportunity to learn some
Python, so I added a function "addDownloadToPlaylist". It seems to work
for me! I was going to add some exception handling gauge interest for
inclusion.
Thanks,
Ben
On Fri, January 25, 2008 5:08 pm, Clark Burbidge wrote:
> Re: m3u & @ Ben (I'm getting mail via digest and am not sure how to reply
> to
> just the specific message about m3u.)
>
> I am not aware of any m3u options. I have made some requests on the wiki
> for
> m3u certain functionality. http://gpodderwiki.jottit.com/todo
>
> I have a couple smalltalk scripts that I made to make a m3u for each
> folder
> uploaded to my Archos player. I end up with a play list that contains all
> the episodes in that folder. I also have a script that scans my sync
> folder
> on my player and makes a playlist of all the podcasts synced today. My
> player won't do mp4s in m3us, so the second script also makes a folder in
> my
> Video directory of any video podcasts with todays date.
>
> The Visual Works smalltalk developer environment is available for most OSs
> and I would be happy to send you the code I have and try and help you
> adjust
> it for your player. I'm no programmer and the code kludgey at best.
> Another
> language might be easier to work with for you, but that is what I'm trying
> to learn now and the best I have to offer.
>
> Clark
>
> On Jan 25, 2008 4:03 AM, <gpodder-devel-request at lists.berlios.de> wrote:
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>> 1. Changes to the tray icon (was: Re: gpodder-devel Digest,
>> Vol
>> 19, Issue 29) (Thomas Perl)
>> 2. playlists (m3u) (Ben Wilson)
>> 3. Re: Changes to the tray icon (was: Re: gpodder-devel Digest,
>> Vol 19, Issue 29) (jerome.chabod at ifrance.com)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:09:33 +0100
>> From: Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net>
>> Subject: [gpodder-devel] Changes to the tray icon (was: Re:
>> gpodder-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 29)
>> To: Development for gPodder <gpodder-devel at lists.berlios.de>
>> Message-ID: <1201176573.6291.12.camel at macbook>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>> Hello, Jerome, Shane and Paul!
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:55 +0100, J?r?me Chabod wrote:
>> > I understand your point of view and I must honestly say I also won't
>> > need all this extra "buttons". I also agree to the fact that "new
>> > episode are available" should be notified only once.
>>
>> Ok, so I think we can add to the list of needed changes:
>>
>> * Only show "New episodes are available" once for a set of episodes
>> * Remove all the buttons on the notification bubbles
>>
>>
>> > However, a feature I really, really need is the ability to
>> > automaticaly download episodes as soon as they are discovered (I
>> > explain it a few paragraph later).
>>
>> As Paul and Shane also suggested that they would find this feature
>> useful, I think we should add the option, but maybe seperate to the
>> current option (rename the current to "[...] after manual feed updates"
>> and add a new "download new episodes in the background when gPodder is
>> minimized"). Of course, this means that we have to make sure that
>> automatic downloads never bring the gPodder window in the foreground,
>> but always run automatically (errors can still be reported via a
>> notification bubble).
>>
>> On the other hand, who would manually update the feed cache and then not
>> be asked about new episodes? So maybe we should remove the option to ask
>> for downloading after feed updates and simply make it the default. Then
>> we get:
>>
>> * Remove the current automatic download option (default behaviour)
>> * Add option to download new episodes in the background (minimized)
>> * Make sure automatic downloads never show the gPodder window
>>
>>
>> > To let you understand my motivation, let me explain "my ideal" gPodder
>> > as it tends to become (if you have to few time, you can skip it ;)):
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your gPodder workflow, it's interesting to read how
>> other people use gPodder. We should probably make a contest in some
>> weeks for people to send in their usage patterns of gPodder - maybe we
>> can get some hints on what could be improved and maybe we can also use
>> this information for writing a "How to best use gPodder for [...]"
>> guide. I'll note that, maybe we can do this when we have the time.
>>
>> Please have a look at the "*" items that I have tried to sum up in this
>> mail and see if this is what you think is a good thing to do. We should
>> probably have some more discussion before we start implementing the
>> planned changes.
>>
>> Thanks for your time and attention to detail. I think with the results
>> of this discussion and a good implementation, we can make your tray icon
>> feature really shine and have a great release in February with the tray
>> icon included.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:41:20 -0500 (EST)
>> From: "Ben Wilson" <bwilson at yooser.org>
>> Subject: [gpodder-devel] playlists (m3u)
>> To: gpodder-devel at lists.berlios.de
>> Message-ID:
>> <46207.208.9.194.201.1201182080.squirrel at webmail.mark-and-erika.com
>> >
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for a way to append newly downloaded podcasts to existing
>> playlists.
>>
>> Is this something already in gpodder? I see the "playlist" setting in a
>> channels sync config, but it doesn't see to be doing what I want.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ben
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:37:34 +0100
>> From: jerome.chabod at ifrance.com <jerome.chabod at ifrance.com>
>> Subject: Re: [gpodder-devel] Changes to the tray icon (was: Re:
>> gpodder-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 29)
>> To: Development for gPodder <gpodder-devel at lists.berlios.de>
>> Message-ID: <20080124133734.BE674A352D at ifrance01.ifrance.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> Hallo Thomas ,
>> thank you for taking the time to have this constructive discussion with
>> us.
>>
>> My opinion to your suggestions:
>>
>> >??? * Only show "New episodes are available" once for a set of episodes
>> OK
>>
>> >??? * Remove all the buttons on the notification bubbles
>> OK.
>> They are there for historical reason. Somebody suggested to have the
>> nice
>> countdown clock in notification. As I remarqued this need at least one
>> action, I added the "show" button. This button whas funny, I started to
>> impulsively add others without real background reflexion on their
>> utility.
>> Your suggestion of a "hurry, hurry - you have to do something now!"
>> effect
>> as conviced me they are more disturbing as helpfull.
>>
>> >??? * Remove the current automatic download option (default behaviour)
>> OK in it's actual beheviour: open an episode selection dialog for
>> dowloading.
>>
>> >??? * Add option to download new episodes in the background (minimized)
>> OK (off by default)
>>
>> >??? * Make sure automatic downloads never show the gPodder window
>> OK
>>
>> This points are nice for having gPodder running in background. I would
>> be
>> happy with them.
>> But I think there is still a question open: what to do when gPodder is
>> NOT
>> in background, and an automatic update appends. I thing having popups in
>> this case might also be disturbating. Replace them with notification is
>> not
>> a good solution since it can be deactivated.
>>
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