gpodder.net planned server outage

Our ISP where gpodder.net (and the gpodder.org website) is hosted has informed us that they are planning to do some maintenance work in the night from July 28th to July 29th. It is possible that during this time, gpodder.net is not available or not fully available (the same applies to gpodder.org, but the gpodder.org blog is hosted somewhere else, so it will not be affected by this maintenance window). Update: This will also affect bugs.gpodder.org. Thanks to Paul for noticing.

You can look up your local time for the maintenance window. After the maintenance is over, gpodder.net should continue to function as usual.

GSoC update: Subscription sync with Amarok

Another update from Lucas Lira Gomes about his Google Summer of Code project that aims to integrate gpodder.net with Amarok: He has now managed to get synchronization working, with some pretty neat UI integration:

Check out more screenshots and a description of them on Lucas' blog.

Panucci is coming to the N950

gPodder's sister project Panucci is being ported to MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan on the Nokia N950. The port is done by Panucci's current maintainer, Jens Persson (xerxes2). He announced the first progress on the project today:

And as you shouldn't make promises you can't keep, as Frank Martin's fourth rule, I got right to it and Panucci already runs pretty well on Harmattan. Some small things to fix but nothing major. I'll also pick up a headset to fix the bluetooth implementation which is missing now. The QML version will probably/hopefully work very well on Fremantle too. It will (probably) never support as many features as the GTK one as I don't got an N900 to fix stuff but it should work reasonably well.

Jens has posted a video on YouTube of the project's current status, and a short overview:

If you didn't know, Panucci is a resuming audiobook and podcast player, and can be used on Maemo and on the (Linux) Desktop to provide resuming functionality of your audio podcasts. Panucci also plays well together with gPodder to synchronize the playback status of audio files, so gPodder can track your playback progress. With dedicated seek buttons, Panucci is very well suited for listening to podcasts and seeking through long pieces of spoken audio.

gPodder 2.16 "Over There" released

It has been over two months, but don't forget that we've been working hard on getting the "tres" branch ready for some action, also. In the mean time, several bug fixes have accumulated for our stable 2.x branch, and so it's once again time to release these into the wild.

Please see the detailed ChangeLog for information on which fixes have been added in this release.

Download: gpodder-2.16.tar.gz
md5sum: ae60552b230f4a8e84eeff6586ea871f
sha1sum: ccbf477401e9dd42ec0c8af386ea17d1abafa2db

Thanks to all the contributors and bug reporters who have made this release the most stable release in the 2.x branch yet :) As always, packages for the different kinds of distributions should be available in the upcoming days.

GSoC update: Podcast synchronization in Amarok

Lucas Lira Gomes has once again updated his blog with some information about the progress on getting gpodder.net integration working with Amarok:

[GSoC] Podcast Subscription Synchronisation

Expect some more updates regarding the normal version of gPodder, including support for recently announced MeeGo devices soon. In July, we will be working hard on getting the new release in shape, and we'll also have some updates for the current 2.x branch of releases. Until then, enjoy the weather.

GSoC update: Amarok integration progressing

As part of Google Summer of Code 2011, Lucas Lira Gomes is working on gpodder.net integration for Amarok, the KDE media player. In his latest blog post, he gives us an update about his progress:

At this point, podcast playlist syncing doesn't have a way to show only a subset of predetermined episodes, for this reason we will see some episodes, from before the synchronisation, that should be not shown in Amarok. This will be fixed as soon as we get some priorities done first, since that bug don't prevent usage.

This week, I will try to run a gpodder.net server, as suggested by our libmygpo-qt comrade, HorrusHorrendus, in order to make the next part of this project easier to test. I also plan to continue coding the existing skeleton of the plug­in infrastructure for the gpodder integration with Amarok.

Lucas says he will have some more updates next week, so if you want to be up to date when Amarok's gpodder.net-related feature set exceeds that of gPodder, subscribe to his blog!

libmygpo-qt 1.0.3 released, new Git repository location

Our resident gpodder.net C++ client master Stefan returns with another release announcement: The Amarok team has released Amarok 2.4.1, it's the first widespread application to use libmygpo-qt. Thanks for all the feedback since libmygpo-qt 1.0.2 - it's time again for a new bugfix release, so here it is: libmygpo-qt 1.0.3 :)

If you are using the Git repository, please be aware that since this release, the Git repository URL for libmygpo-qt has changed - the library now lives inside the "gpodder" project on Github (other parts of the gPodder ecosystem will move to this location shortly when new versions are released): https://github.com/gpodder/libmygpo-qt

Changes in libmygpo-qt 1.0.3:

• All private classes used in libmygpo-qt were moved into their own header files (name_p.h) instead of having them in the .cpp files
• UrlBuilder now uses the fast string concatenation of Qt
• Some unneeded files were removed (RequestHandlerTest & tests/Makefile.man)
• Fixed a bug in the build system
• General cleanup of unnecessary #include statements
  

Source tarball: libmygpo-qt.1.0.3.tar.gz
md5sum: 5f5995a2e335a3f47487d9b25ef3a16e
sha1sum: 49bbcb886cdb215513ea0e54efb8a488dcc88749

For more information about libmygpo-qt, have a look at the libmygpo-qt wiki.