[gpodder-devel] moving to gpodder from another podcatcher
- From: gpodder-devel-reg at compact.com (A. Lester Buck III)
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:13:20 -0600
Hi,
I have been using Ziepod for a couple of years, and I have 80+GB in my
download archives. For some reason, Ziepod lost its little mind
overnight. I have a recent OPML backup, but Ziepod is going crazy as I
try to reload my subscriptions, dumping hundreds of episode references
from other podcasts into one folder. So it's time to move along to a
podcatcher that is still in active development. gPodder looks great!
I was able to redirect my download directory and import a small podcast
with a few episodes. (I had to change type="RSS" to type="rss" in
Ziepod's OPML 1.1 format.) My question concerns best practice for
syncing the gPodder metadata with my existing download archive.
I noticed gPodder wants to start downloading any episodes it finds in
the feeds, whether the episode is on disk or not. Is there any hope I
can teach gPodder about what episodes are already there? If I cancel a
download, I can't play that episode in the in-client player. Maybe
there is some kind of resync/fsck function that helps gPodder relearn
what it has to work with?
While I don't want to waste all the bandwidth redownloading episodes,
the real reason I don't want to redownload is that Ziepod (and other
clients) mark the episode file with the download date, not the published
date, so if I am downloading a lot of old episodes, the dates are all
jumbled. I use Rockbox, and set the file sorting by date, so I get each
episode in a folder in the published sequence. I even have a script
that will crawl a feed and re-date the episode files to match the
pubDate, but I'm hoping gPodder will date the files with the pubDate
from the feed to start with.
Thanks!
Lester
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