gPodder Usability Tests on Maemo 5

Jarkko Mikael Palonkangas has carried out some user tests with gPodder on Maemo 5, and has now uploaded the resulting videos to YouTube. Please have a look and feel free to comment directly on the videos, because Jarkko can use the feedback and will use it for his Master's thesis:

• gPodder Maemo 5 Remota Usability Test Videos

These videos are also interesting if you haven't seen how the Thinking Aloud method works or if you have not played with gPodder's Maemo 5 UI yet.

gPodder 2.19 "The Toast Derivation" released

Before the big release of the "tres" branch as gPodder 3, we have another bugfix release for the stable 2.x series of releases for you. This release fixes various bugs found since the last release in August:

• Fix empty descriptions in the Soundcloud module
• Ignore image enclosures for audio/video in Media RSS (bug 1430)
• Add Spanish and Turkish translations (bug 1420)

The detailed, full ChangeLog is available at gpodder.org/changelog/2.19.

Download: gpodder-2.19.tar.gz
md5sum: cad0cd6b303a38bab1c868b2186d816b
sha1sum: 6ac411241740fc93af165fdfcb355c9b02dcb714

Thanks to all who contributed to this release and reported bugs :)

gPodder "tres" Launch Party, 16. September 2011

Even though the "tres" branch has not officially been released yet (and we're not sure if we can make it before the party, but that shouldn't worry you ;)), the time is right for some partying, therefore the gPodder team and friends will meet up this Friday evening, September 16th in Vienna, Austria to celebrate the imminent release of gPodder's "tres" branch.

If you are in town and interested in coming, drop us a line and we'll give you the details how to find us :)

libmygpo-qt 1.0.4 released

Summer (and with it Google Summer of Code) is over and Lucas Lira Gomes sucessfully finished his GSoC Project (Integration of gpodder.net into Amarok), so expect to be able to synchronize your podcasts between Amarok & gpodder.net soon ;)

In addition to that, Ari Hannula from Nokia created "Podcasts" for the Nokia N9, which also utilizes libmygpo-qt for synchronizing and searching podcasts.

Thanks to Lucas & Ari, we found (and fixed ;) ) some Bugs in libmygpo-qt, so we hereby announce the availability of libmygpo-qt v1.0.4.

Changes in 1.0.4:

• fixed a bug with an invalid timestamp when uploading EpisodeActions
• fixed a bug with a wrong url when retrieving EpisodeActions by Podcast
• fixed a crash happening on MeeGo because of the deletion of QNetworkReply Pointers

Where to get libmygpo-qt?

Tarball: libmygpo-qt.1.0.4.tar.gz
md5sum: 9c840d6a7dc96055c6eb5a7d36d02a7c
sha1sum: 7d46fcbcc3c0177bc353f8e15b0bff9fd19013e6

Some more important Links for libmygpo-qt:

• Project Website:
  http://wiki.gpodder.org/wiki/Libmygpo-qt
• Git Repo:
  https://github.com/gpodder/libmygpo-qt
• Doxygen Documentation:
  http://stefan.derkits.at/libmygpo-doc/
• gpodder.net API:
  http://wiki.gpodder.org/wiki/Web_Services/API_2
• Bugreports:
  http://bugs.gpodder.org
• Contact:
  gpodder-devel@lists.berlios.de

Promote Podcasts in gPodder and on gpodder.net

If you want to promote your podcast the gPodder project is offering a simple promotion package: For only € 20 your podcast will be shown on the front page of gpodder.net and will be included in the example podcasts of all gPodder clients for one week.

You can either design the promotion space on the gpodder.net front page yourself, or you just provide us your logo and let us do the work.

The current promotion for Linux Basix

We're currently limiting promotions to one at a time, so your podcast will get the full attention of the gpodder.net visitors and gPodder users.

Linux Basix in gPodder's example Podcasts

You don't need to be the author /publisher of a podcast in order to promote it, we'll also accept promotions from fans. However, if you are associated to a podcast, gpodder.net has special publisher pages that contain subscriber and listener stats. This service is currently provided for free and is not tied to a promotion.

Promotion Info and Booking

The revenue from podcast promotions will be used to cover our hosting expenses. If you want to support gPodder and gpodder.net without booking a promotion, there's also the possibility to donate.

gPodder 2.18 "Powerswitch" released

Due to a problem with using the Transifex client for pulling in new translations into our repository before the last release, gPodder 2.17 was missing some translations that existed in previous versions. This release - gPodder 2.18 - fixes this issue and re-adds all missing translations. The YouTube bugfix that has been the reason for the 2.17 release is obviously also included in this release.

Download: gpodder-2.18.tar.gz
md5sum: 69b2667c89996c39cda70b20b6b518db
sha1sum: 02d0ed954b596c592b8113c60ba1b30dd9fde23a

Thanks to Götz Waschk and Tony Mancill for bringing this issue to my attention quickly. Packages for different distributions will appear shortly. Enjoy this new gPodder release!

mygpoclient 1.6 "Greensleeves" released

A new version of mygpoclient, the Pythonic gpodder.net client library has been released. This new release includes various bugfixes that have been introduced in our repository since the last release. It also includes experimental support for the mygpo-feedservice.

Download: mygpoclient-1.6.tar.gz
md5sum: 41cb32aea08e2183ea779bec9b456be6
sha1sum: 14eac26757fe8b857e2e5ffc14c31ff9b2a0db4d

Thanks to David Sepashvili and Stefan Kögl who contributed code for this release. This update is recommended for all users of mygpoclient. Packages in distributions will hopefully follow soon.