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foo_podcatcher

Reply #151
@nausea
Sorry for repeating the question.
But what do you think about my "post-processing" idea on the previous page?
Do you find it worthy (considering implementing it) or is it "out of scope" for foo_podcatcher?



foo_podcatcher

Reply #154
Hello nausea,

i would appreciate if you could a comment to my request or if you thought about any other way of an better distinction between downloaded and not downloaded files.

Thanks for the updates!

foo_podcatcher

Reply #155
@q-stankovic
You can just add a column  indicating it.(eg. checking if thee is or there isnt a "http://"  sting in the path of each playlist item.)

foo_podcatcher

Reply #156
Released version 0.1.6c which fixes a crash when subscribing to an empty feed. Thanks to whoever submitted the crash report.

I've checked "Included only downloaded an new items" but not all downloaded podcasts are shown.
Do I miss something?
Not sure. Are the podcasts marked as downloaded (see the Podcast Properties under the Podcatcher heading in the track properties dialog)?

Quote from: q-stankovic link=msg=0 date=
i would appreciate if you could a comment to my request or if you thought about any other way of an better distinction between downloaded and not downloaded files.
As thecircusfreak said you could add a custom Local/Remote column, but I don't think there is a way of limiting it to Podcatcher playlists (perhaps there is in Columns UI?). I personally have a selection properties UI element in my setup and can see if the Podcast Offline URL property has a value. Not something with an elegant solution yet though, as the API doesn't give components access to the playlist appearance.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #157
"I don't think there is a way of limiting it to Podcatcher playlists (perhaps there is in Columns UI?)"

Yes there is a limiting option in CUI.

In Default UI,  q-stankovic you  could just append a (N) to the title  of the few tracks that are a network location, a background change, or sth like that. All satisfactory solutions IMO.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #158
I've checked "Included only downloaded an new items" but not all downloaded podcasts are shown.
Do I miss something?
Not sure. Are the podcasts marked as downloaded (see the Podcast Properties under the Podcatcher heading in the track properties dialog)?

I think that was the point. Someone had "...;deleted" at the end after I changed the download location.
Thank you for the hint.

Another thing. I only allow 3 files downloading at once. Sometimes fb2k get freezed and I have to kill the process.
Just now I have the problem that the 5th download is still shown as queued and foobar got freezed.

Edit: And the fresh downloaded podcasts aren't shown again after restart.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #159
Another thing. I only allow 3 files downloading at once. Sometimes fb2k get freezed and I have to kill the process.
Just now I have the problem that the 5th download is still shown as queued and foobar got freezed.


That's a bug and needs fixing. Do you have a reliable way of reproducing it? Does it happen just as a track finishes downloading, or during the download at some point?

Did it happen with older versions?


foo_podcatcher

Reply #161
Haven't managed to reproduce.

A few more questions:

Does it happen if the Download Manager dialog is closed (including not embedded as an element in the UI)?

Do you see the dialog asking to overwrite already downloaded files? It's modal and could perhaps be appearing off-screen for some reason.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #162
fb2k 1.0.1. beta 2 - podcatcher 0.1.6c(beta) , XP SP3

First I thought it only happens if the Podcatcher Donwload Manager is open (not embedded) but then it happend also if it is closed - regardless of overwriting already downloaded files or not.

Sorry nausea, that I can't give you more hints, but now I think it's a problem of my configuration but I don't know why.


foo_podcatcher

Reply #163
@nausea & thecircusfreak

Thanks! I think i will create a general useful column: if it is a stream then nothing is shown - if it is a local file a special sign will be shown. In latter case i will use custom colors which shows if a local file is in library or not. That column might be helpful in other contextes too.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #164
please forgive the extremely n00bish question, but can someone explain to me how to use the re-tag feature, what it does exactly (i know it re-tags, but does it take the title, artist, and album title of teh and put it in the id3 fields) , and if re-tagging these podcasts will force them in the podcast section on my idevices with the correct information.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #165
A podcast essentially is an xml(description) file which links to a bunch of audio files. Well, it's pretty common that the actual audio files podcast is linking to are untagged files. What this option does is that it exports the tile,date,author etc from the description file and writes them to the corresponding id3 fields.

In case this is not enabled, you end up with a taggless file, which the only thing you know about  is its filename, usually sth like podcast11.mp3

I m not sure what you mean in the end, but podcasts are normal audio files. Your device  probably recognizes them by some tagging, maybe a podcast genre?. This is sth  you would have to do by yourself, podcatcher's retag wont do that.

Btw, nausea, I dont know if this is already happening, have you considered replacing tags only if the corresponded value is blank? Dont know if this is an overkill, I just bring it to your attention.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #166
A podcast essentially is an xml(description) file which links to a bunch of audio files. Well, it's pretty common that the actual audio files podcast is linking to are untagged files. What this option does is that it exports the tile,date,author etc from the description file and writes them to the corresponding id3 fields.

In case this is not enabled, you end up with a taggless file, which the only thing you know about  is its filename, usually sth like podcast11.mp3

I m not sure what you mean in the end, but podcasts are normal audio files. Your device  probably recognizes them by some tagging, maybe a podcast genre?. This is sth  you would have to do by yourself, podcatcher's retag wont do that.

Btw, nausea, I dont know if this is already happening, have you considered replacing tags only if the corresponded value is blank? Dont know if this is an overkill, I just bring it to your attention.


i am pretty ipod savvy, not foobar savvy.  i previously used winamp to sync to my players.  i stupidly updated the firmware and the person who developed the only plugin for winamp that recognizes the iphone and itouch gave up, so here i am and why i asked the question.  as i said, i figure that the files get tagged, i didn't know what was tagged and what enabled the tagging.  i ask because i have the re-tag feature enabled, and i downloaded and synced a podcast to my player.  addressing the bold part, not only did it not recognize the file as a podcast, it was not tagged at all.  i had enabled the feature in the preferences, but just in case i made sure it was enabled it for this podcast just to be safe.  its set to (use global value [re-tag]).  nothing happened, hence my question. 

it was n00bish because i don't use foobar for anything other than to sync my players and am not familiar with all of its features not because i have never used an ipod before.  i hate itunes, it's why i went with winamp and now foobar to do my audio management.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #167
nausea,

I've got a podcast that seems to mess up foo_podcatcher's date parsing. Here are the relevant lines from the console window:
Podcatcher: Retrieving podcast feed 'http://feeds.feedburner.com:80/TwoDrinkMinimum?format=xml'
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Sunday, 21 Feb 2010 19:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Sunday, 14 Feb 2010 19:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Sunday, 7 Feb 2010 19:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Sunday, 31 Jan 2010 19:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Sunday, 24 Jan 2010 19:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Sunday, 17 Jan 2010 19:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Thursday, 7 Jan 2010 20:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Friday, 1 Jan 2003 20:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Friday, 1 Jan 2003 20:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Friday, 1 Jan 2003 20:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Friday, 1 Jan 2003 20:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Friday, 1 Jan 2003 20:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Friday, 1 Jan 2003 20:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Friday, 1 Jan 2003 20:00:00 PST).
Podcatcher: Error in RFC822 time formatting (Friday, 1 Jan 2003 20:00:00 PST).

Since it's from feedburner this may be an issue for more people than just me.

Feature request (I know other people are asking questions along these lines):
[blockquote]I'd like an option to have the Podcatcher playlist for a particular feed only show the "downloaded" items. That way I can easily get the playlist to only show the stuff I haven't listened to yet.
[/blockquote]
There is a workaround, though. I can use foo_podcatcher to manage the downloads and an Autoplaylist based on the path name. I don't think this is ideal (it pollutes my Library with podcasts for one thing), but it does work.

- LoopinFool

foo_podcatcher

Reply #168
Can I get Podcast infomation in TF?(e.g. $info(podcast_title),%feed_url%)
if no, please make this function.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #169
Is it possible to make Podcatcher automatically tag downloaded podcast episodes with "Podcast" as genre? This is suppose to make foo_pod recognize the Podcast as an actual Podcast and let me access it through the Podcast view on my iPod touch.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #170
Is it possible to make Podcatcher automatically tag downloaded podcast episodes with "Podcast" as genre? This is suppose to make foo_pod recognize the Podcast as an actual Podcast and let me access it through the Podcast view on my iPod touch.

if you use iPod Manager, try this TF on genre.

$if($strstr(%path%,YOUR PODCAST DIRECTORY),podcast,%genre%)

perhaps, disappointment this way not make podcast format.

foo_podcatcher

Reply #171
Thank you big time for adding re-tag, nausea!
Works fine, yet it would be really great to have an option to format the fields (title, album, artist, genre).
I know your time is limited, but hopefully this is somewhere on your list.
Very grateful for your work, thank you.

 

foo_podcatcher

Reply #172
if you use iPod Manager, try this TF on genre.

$if($strstr(%path%,YOUR PODCAST DIRECTORY),podcast,%genre%)

perhaps, disappointment this way not make podcast format.


here's another n00bish question: where exactly can i set that?

foo_podcatcher

Reply #173
Hi,

thanks again, great component!

Is there a way to make it ignore caps when grouping channels by author? I.e. group "DKULTUR" and "dkultur" together, or "Radioeins" and "radioeins"?

Also it'd be great to be able to import/export opml in the future... for some reason all my channels vanished today (not sure if it was a crash), to re-import them would have been much easier using opml.

Otherwise it's just perfect...

foo_podcatcher

Reply #174
you say there is an option to have all downloaded podcasts in a playlist.  how do you produce that playlist in the playlist tab lists?  the reason i ask is because there are some podcasts of radio shows that when downloaded are listed out of order in the podcast playlist.  i want to manually edit them in the correct order as you can't do that after the fact on the idevice.