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.
2011-06-01
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!
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.
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!
2011-05-31
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:
md5sum: 5f5995a2e335a3f47487d9b25ef3a16e
sha1sum: 49bbcb886cdb215513ea0e54efb8a488dcc88749
For more information about libmygpo-qt, have a look at the libmygpo-qt wiki.
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
md5sum: 5f5995a2e335a3f47487d9b25ef3a16e
sha1sum: 49bbcb886cdb215513ea0e54efb8a488dcc88749
For more information about libmygpo-qt, have a look at the libmygpo-qt wiki.
2011-05-11
gPodder 2.15 packages now available for Ubuntu and Windows
gPodder 2.15 has been released one week ago, and since then, packages have slowly trickled into distributions, with Maemo 4 (N800, N810) and Debian unstable being the first ones to receive the updates. For Maemo 5, the package has been in Extras-Testing since the release day, but the 10-day quarantine period for updated packages to enter Extras is not over yet, so you have to wait a few more days.
Updated packages of gPodder are now available from the gPodder Ubuntu PPA and a new Windows package has also been uploaded and is now available for download.
Updated packages of gPodder are now available from the gPodder Ubuntu PPA and a new Windows package has also been uploaded and is now available for download.
2011-05-03
gPodder 2.15 "Night of Desirable Objects" released
A new episode in the stable 2.x release series of your favorite podcatcher is out: Version 2.15 - "Night of Desirable Objects" - brings some bug fixes and translation updates:
Download: gpodder-2.15.tar.gz
md5sum: e601b8c8cbb09acd5a33f44de6e67edf
sha1sum: 06db4d231b05187abcfc3c36b1e1460498a4b6db
Thanks to all contributors, translators, bug reporters, donators, flattr'ers, packagers and users of gPodder who have made this release possible and great :)
- Sanitize filename when saving to folder (bug 1317)
- Remove gstreamer track length detection (bug 1316)
- Win32: Fix issues with backslashes in commands
- Better generation of one-line description
- Fix bug when different podcasts have the same GUID (Maemo bug 12094)
- GTK UI: Fix podcast directory dialog layout
- Translation updates:
- French translation of gpodder.desktop (by Vysserk3)
- Galician (by Gonçalo Cordeiro)
- Norwegian Bokmål (by Jim Nygård)
- Spanish (by Jorge Suárez de Lis)
Download: gpodder-2.15.tar.gz
md5sum: e601b8c8cbb09acd5a33f44de6e67edf
sha1sum: 06db4d231b05187abcfc3c36b1e1460498a4b6db
Thanks to all contributors, translators, bug reporters, donators, flattr'ers, packagers and users of gPodder who have made this release possible and great :)
2011-04-30
gPodder as a RSS reader
Eric Le Lay has been working on modding gPodder to work as a normal RSS reader for non-podcast news feeds. As announced on gpodder-devel this week, he has now published a guide on what he had to change to get it working, including a Git repository on Github. His changes include some nice ideas that might be worth merging back into mainline gPodder, although our goal is still to be a great podcatcher only and no news reader. Here's a screenshot of Eric's modified gPodder, with shownotes embedded in the main window:
2011-04-23
Drafting the new podcast directory dialog
Since last year, our gpodder.net web service has gained lots of features, including text search and tagging. The official gPodder podcast client doesn't yet support all those features in its UI, and so I've been looking to redesign the podcast directory ("Find new podcasts" / "Discover new podcasts") dialog:
The first draft (which you can see at the top left) was a wizard-style dialog that guides the user through different steps. The second one (on which the final prototype is based) adds a two-pane layout with different sources in the left pane, and controls and the list of available podcasts in the right pane. This allows us to add more services and directories in the future and also adds a nice place for us to add "bookmarks" to OPML files on the web (i.e. you could bookmark the public OPML URLs of your friends' gpodder.net podcast subscriptions). Here's the final (implementation-specific) Gtk+ UI draft:
This new dialog will be part of the 3.x gPodder releases, and as soon as some details are worked out, the code will land in the "tres" branch of our Git repository. Here's a screenshot of the current prototype implementation:
The first draft (which you can see at the top left) was a wizard-style dialog that guides the user through different steps. The second one (on which the final prototype is based) adds a two-pane layout with different sources in the left pane, and controls and the list of available podcasts in the right pane. This allows us to add more services and directories in the future and also adds a nice place for us to add "bookmarks" to OPML files on the web (i.e. you could bookmark the public OPML URLs of your friends' gpodder.net podcast subscriptions). Here's the final (implementation-specific) Gtk+ UI draft:
This new dialog will be part of the 3.x gPodder releases, and as soon as some details are worked out, the code will land in the "tres" branch of our Git repository. Here's a screenshot of the current prototype implementation:
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