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foo_podcatcher

Reply #200 –
Hi there,

Both 0.1.7.1 and 0.1.7.2 crash my fb2k on startup; 0.1.6d beta works fine with fb2k 1.0.2.1.
I'm not getting any crash report dialog either.
If you need more detailed feedback, please let me know how to better test it.

p.s. this is one of my favourite components, thank you for your work

daf

foo_podcatcher

Reply #201 –
I've put v0.1.6d back up at http://www.unkempt.co.uk/fb2k/foo_podcatcher.html while this bug is worked out.

Androidmonk: When you say "especially when I try the edit/feed manager", do you mean it doesn't hang when the manager dialog is not open? That would be very useful information.

mjed & dafnis: The fact that it didn't happen with older versions is helpful, and should narrow it down. Thanks.

icedtea: The lack of sorting is by design, but could change in future versions as a bunch of people seem to want to sort. The playlists are currently all sorted by publish date, except the Recently Downloaded Podcasts playlist, which is sorted by date downloaded.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #202 –
And now a feature request:

Due to a couple OS crashes my podcatcher forgot what podcasts were downloaded during the session, and so on system restart kept asking if it should overwrite existing files. If foobar has been running for several days in a row, it means a lot of files.
So I wonder if it would make sense to perform the new "safe" config file updating at predefined intervals, or even in a paranoid mode every time a podcast is downloaded successfully.

thank you

foo_podcatcher

Reply #203 –
Have released 0.1.7.3, with a fix for a hang when the update period is set to daily. http://www.unkempt.co.uk/fb2k/foo_podcatcher.html

Lots of thanks to Androidmonk and mjed for their help with this, and extra props to dafnis for solving it in the end. Awesome!

dafnis: version 0.2 will use a proper database backend, giving the behaviour you describe.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #204 –
0.1.7.3 working fine here, thanks a lot.

p.s. looking forward to 0.2

foo_podcatcher

Reply #205 –
This works great, thanks!

foo_podcatcher

Reply #206 –
nausea wouldn't it make sense to save the feed image/folder.jpg to the podcast folder so that the album art panel in dui/cui can show the image? Most files don't have the image embedded

foo_podcatcher

Reply #207 –
Version 0.1.7.4 released. It has a fix for the context-menu keyboard shortcuts bug. You will have to re-set the download shortcut with this release.

Quote from: icedtea on
nausea wouldn't it make sense to save the feed image/folder.jpg to the podcast folder so that the album art panel in dui/cui can show the image? Most files don't have the image embedded
Yes it would. It would be a slight change though to how the image downloads work, as they are currently only downloaded as needed by the Feed Manager dialog. I'll look at implementing this for a future release. It would of course not enable album art for not downloaded podcasts.

All those looking for auto-backup, foo_jesus appears to save the foo_podcatcher settings.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #208 –
The ability to set genre is great, nausea, but some hardware players (Sansa etc) require «Podcasts» instead of «Podcast» to function properly.
Would it be hard to put a text field there instead of checkbox? It would also help non-english users.

I also really hope foo_podcatcher would have the Title, Artist, Album & Genre text fields one day.
Retag is useful, but some casters have a very messy tags
Is it on your list, if I may ask?

foo_podcatcher

Reply #209 –
Hello,
I am also amazed. This component is great.

2 little comments:
perhaps it requires handling of more encoding. For me the following podcast fails and I think it's because of the iso-8859-2 content encoding: http://www.lumen.sk/podcast/rozhlasova_hra.php

There is an accessibility problem related to sliders and static texts in the main preference page and also custom feed properties dialog.
Static texts which give a textual representation to nearby sliders should be placed after the slider in the azorder too.
I don't think there is some spec for this but for  me as a blind user it would be nice if the static text displaying help text would be placed first in the azorder eventhough they are usually displayed at the bottom.

Thanks

foo_podcatcher

Reply #210 –
Again a question concerning the Genre - podcast tag.
Foobar properties only show the genre "Podcast" if I open the file at least once. If I just select the feed item and select properties the tag is still empty, if I open it, the tag is suddenly there. Why is this?

And thank you for fixing the keyboard sortcut thing !

foo_podcatcher

Reply #211 –
Nausea can we have a "All Downloaded Podcasts" to complement "Recently Downloaded Podcasts"?
Thanks

foo_podcatcher

Reply #212 –
another request if you may:

would it be possible to include the normal foobar right-click menu functions in the download folder as well as those commands you have there already?

foo_podcatcher

Reply #213 –
Quote from: icedtea on
Nausea can we have a "All Downloaded Podcasts" to complement "Recently Downloaded Podcasts"?
Thanks


Topping that, I'd really like a "Newest Downloaded Podcasts" that shows only the most recently released downloaded podcast for each feed, mainly for easy syncing to my iPod. The current "Recently Downloaded Podcasts" works well enough for now, but I have to avoid downloading any old podcasts if I want to maintain that.

Great work so far, nausea - we really appreciate your efforts.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #214 –
Thanks for your work, you are almost there.
The Archive feature is confusing: I thought an archived podcast would go somewhere else (a different folder?) for long-term storage, but apparently the archived episodes are not downloaded at all. If you want to say "Do not download", why don't you say so?
I don't see how the takeup rate would be decent without an OPML import function.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #216 –
I think I mentioned this before (like half a year ago). My podcast items still show "1601-01-01 03:00:00" as date.
all of them (all my subscriptions are from last.fm, so maybe that's the culprit, others seem to work)
I would really appreciate help since the weird date messes up my grouping , maybe u could do an option to use "podcast downloaded" in "DATE" field of the downloaded podcasts? (not sure what would happen to the undownloaded then )

Oh, and is it possible to add podcatcher podcast manager and download manager permanently to the layout? as panels (columns, whatever). I'm talking about columns UI.
otherwise awesome add-on

foo_podcatcher

Reply #217 –
luci: That feed works for me. Are you using the most recent version (v0.1.7.4) of foo_podcatcher? If so, can you give me an overview of your settings?

ingver: Do you have an example feed from Last.fm I could look at?
 

foo_podcatcher

Reply #218 –
I successfully was using fb2000 v1.0.2 with 0.1.6 of podcatcher, and thought I'd update to fb2000 v1.0.3 and v 0.1.7 simultaneously.  First, forgive the noobie question, but is there a preferred sequence/method for updating to more recent versions (and in the process preserving the subscribed feeds)?  Does update methodology differ if updating using portable vs installed fb2000?

Unfortunately when I now try to subscribe to a known feed (including several listed above as "working") nothing happens as it did/does in previous versions.  I don't get a response from podcatcher asking if I want to add the subscription, nothing...just sits there after I type in the feed.  It must be something basic, but I don't know what settings/etc I've screwed up.

I have tried this with both portable and installed versions of fb2000.

Finally, is there a convenient way to determine what version of podcaster is currently being used?

Again, apologies for basic questions.  REALLY love the plugin!!!

foo_podcatcher

Reply #219 –
Quote from: ph1 on
Finally, is there a convenient way to determine what version of podcaster is currently being used?

I can answer the version question.
Go to preferences in foobar2000 (File->Preferences menu or Ctrl+P). Click on "Components" in the upper left corner. All of your installed components are listed there with their version strings.

- LoopinFool

foo_podcatcher

Reply #220 –
Quote from: ph1 on
...is there a preferred sequence/method for updating to more recent versions (and in the process preserving the subscribed feeds)?  Does update methodology differ if updating using portable vs installed fb2000?

Your subscribed feeds should be maintained. There's no real change between 0.1.6x and 0.1.7.x in that regard. The foo_podcatcher_config.xml file is stored in the foobar2000 profile directory. You can find out where that is on the General page of the preferences.

Are the Podcatcher entries in the foobar2000 View menu?

foo_podcatcher

Reply #221 –
Thanks for your help on trying to solve my problem stated above.  More details, now that I understand things a bit better.

I have two portable foobar2000 I use, in two separate directories.  One v1.0.2.1, the other v1.0.3.

I use podcatcher 0.1.7.4 and it seems to allow new subscriptions (and download existing subscriptions) fine with fb2000 v1.0.2.1.  However, when I try podcatcher 0.1.7.4 with fb2000 v1.0.3, using a copy of the config.xml file I used when testing with fb2000 v1.0.2.1, while the "subscribe to podcast" menu item is available and can be chosen, when a new feed URL is entered, no response occurs (where there should be "do you want to subscribe to this feed").  Furthermore, it appears that while existing feeds in the config.xml file are recognized, updates fail on them.

Any suggestions as to why podcatcher 0.1.7.4 doesn't function the same with my fb2000 v1.0.3 portable (and presumably installed) version as it does with my fb2000 v1.0.2.1 portable version would be appreciated!  I guess my other plugins I use in my two versions of fb2000 I've tried this on aren't exactly identical, but I shouldn't think having not yet installed other plugins when I upgraded to fb2000 v1.0.3 should cause this issue.

Thanks for ideas!

foo_podcatcher

Reply #222 –
Quote from: ph1 on
...when a new feed URL is entered, no response occurs (where there should be "do you want to subscribe to this feed").  Furthermore, it appears that while existing feeds in the config.xml file are recognized, updates fail on them.

Do you see any relevant messages in the foobar2000 console (View/Console)?

My first guess is that it's failing to connect to the internet. The current behaviour is for feed updates to fail silently, even if it's a new feed. (This should be changed.)

foo_podcatcher

Reply #223 –
Quote from: nausea on
My first guess is that it's failing to connect to the internet. The current behaviour is for feed updates to fail silently, even if it's a new feed. (This should be changed.)

Yeah, that makes sense, and it IS the problem.  Console indicates that failing to connect to the internet.  What I don't understand is why I can fire up FB2000 v 1.0.3 and not be able to connect and then 5 seconds later fire up FB2000 v 1.0.2.1 and have it connect to the internet fine.  But that must be my problem, either some setting I inadvertently made in the v 1.0.3 or my firewall settings (though I disabled my firewall).

foo_podcatcher

Reply #224 –
Proxy settings perhaps?