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Re: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

#12

Post by freeplay »

I don't know if this is a good place for feature requests, but the only thing keeping me from switching to this at at the moment is download settings per podcast.

For example, some podcasts I don't want to miss an episode and I want them all downloaded. Other podcasts I only check in on occasionally and would only want the latest episode to be kept on device.

I subscribe to a lot of podcast and downloading and keeping every episode is going to eat up a lot of storage.

Besides that, love the simplicity of it. Well done!

Re: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

#13

Post by Bogdanp »

freeplay wrote: post #12

I don't know if this is a good place for feature requests, but the only thing keeping me from switching to this at at the moment is download settings per podcast. For example, some podcasts I don't want to miss an episode and I want them all downloaded. Other podcasts I only check in on occasionally and would only want the latest episode to be kept on device. I subscribe to a lot of podcast and downloading and keepin…

Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. It actually only downloads at most 2 episodes per podcast at a time, but that's still not great for your use case. I do plan to add per-podcast settings in probably the release after next, so stay tuned for that!

Re: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

#15

Post by Bogdanp »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #14

Where does one learn how to interface with the podcast directories? Who provides free downloads? I had heard something about rss at one point. Couldn’t find a good app for phosh and was thinking of writing one.

Every podcast has its own RSS feed. As for the index, I use Podcast Index[1] and the iTunes API.

[1]: https://podcastindex.org/

Re: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

#16

Post by pvg »

freeplay wrote: post #12

I don't know if this is a good place for feature requests, but the only thing keeping me from switching to this at at the moment is download settings per podcast. For example, some podcasts I don't want to miss an episode and I want them all downloaded. Other podcasts I only check in on occasionally and would only want the latest episode to be kept on device. I subscribe to a lot of podcast and downloading and keepin…

I don't know if this is a good place for feature requests

If you've checked out the thing being showhn enough to have a feature request, you're doing Show HN right.

Re: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

#18

Post by adlpz »

Looks cool! If I may, a couple of feature suggestions:

1. You mentioned it already but bookmarks. In particular bookmarks that can be added through iOS Shortcuts (so we can each build whatever crazy automation we need) and that can be exported (so we can keep LARPing productivity in our Obsidian vaults).

2. An "undo" function, somehow. I know this is weird but I've misclicked the seek bar so many times (esp. in the lock screen) and lost where I was... a solution for that would be so cool.

I've been using the same podcasts app for... well over 10 years. But yours looks really cool, I may just switch.

Re: Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket

#19

Post by fandorin »

Bogdanp wrote: post #3
hoofedear wrote: post #2

Just want to say, I love the design of your website!

Thanks! It's built with Chakra UI[1] so I can't take full credit for it. EDIT: Oh, I just realized you might be referring to my blog, in which case I _can_ take credit for that :P. Thanks again! [1]: https://www.chakra-ui.com/

yeah, really good looking page, congrats! btw - out of curiosity - what tool did you use to create app screenshots for AppStore?
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