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gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client

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Re: gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client

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Post by specialist »

thpx86 wrote: post #41
specialist wrote: post #27

I'm desperate to find a podcatcher suitable for binging. macOS or iOS. Like chewing thru the 400 episodes of the (OG) History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. I've tried every iOS app I could find. They're all turrible for this use case. Yes, even Overcast. [1] I truly wonder if anybody making the apps ever used their own apps. I just tried gPodder. Alas, the UI is 1/4 size. [1] Overcast shows played episodes in the u…

About the 1/4 size UI, see this as a workaround: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/issues/1348#issuecomment-...

Well spotted, thanks!

Re: gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

weberer wrote: post #50
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love paying for content like that (when the content is good of course). It’s one of the few mediums where some creators allow me to be in control of how they monetize my viewership. It drives me crazy that on YouTube I pay for premium and still need to sidestep ads. It makes sense; the creators don’t get paid directly from my membership and if they did it would be fractions of pennies. But that’s the problem; I wan…

I don't know why this comment is grey. It's a reasonable idea.

Apparently I escaped the grey! Thanks for the vote of confidence.

It’s always strange to see grey comments with no responses explaining why anyone disagrees. In some cases it’s clear – maybe someone appears to be a troll or something. In this case I wonder why someone would downvote me for wanting to support content creators. It isn’t a perfect analogy but it seems that selling software to users is something a lot of us here can get behind – wouldn’t we want our users to want to support us? Maybe I’m missing something though.

Re: gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client

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Post by JohnTHaller »

mavhc wrote: post #53
JohnTHaller wrote: post #4

It's also available in PortableApps.com Format for use on locked work and school machines as well as external drives and cloud drives: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/gpodder_portable

a locked down machine that lets code run from places users can write? how pointless

A more accurate way of saying it is "machines you don't have admin rights on". As a standard user, you can still run pretty much anything from anywhere. There are ways to lock this down, of course.

Re: gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client

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Post by orblivion »

thpx86 wrote: post #35
orblivion wrote: post #10

When I first got into podcasts I didn't like that every client had a UI. I just wanted the files and use my audio player of choice (Music Player Daemon). So I wrote one myself. It breaks a lot though.

gPodder does ship with a command-line interface "gpo" that can just do the subscribing and downloading part which might suit your needs (while still retaining the possibility to bring up the GUI if needed, the on-disk format is the same). If you roll your own, https://github.com/gpodder/podcastparser is a neat little Python library that has been split out from (and is now used by) gPodder, as dealing with all kinds o…

I'll check out `gpo`, thank you. To be honest the other reason for this was an exercise in Haskell a while ago, and an exercise in Python long, long ago before that. I'm beyond that interest these days so something that doesn't break constantly sounds like a good plan.

Re: gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client

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Post by jerrybender »

specialist wrote: post #27

I'm desperate to find a podcatcher suitable for binging. macOS or iOS. Like chewing thru the 400 episodes of the (OG) History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. I've tried every iOS app I could find. They're all turrible for this use case. Yes, even Overcast. [1] I truly wonder if anybody making the apps ever used their own apps. I just tried gPodder. Alas, the UI is 1/4 size. [1] Overcast shows played episodes in the u…

Podurama has episodes grouped by 20

Re: gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client

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Post by colinsane »

colinsane wrote: post #52
thpx86 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use `gpo import FILENAME|URL` to import an OPML on the command line, or `gpo export FILENAME` to export and OPML on the command line. The "import" command doesn't delete any subscriptions, you can use `gpo list` to get a list of current subscriptions and `gpo unsubscribe URL` to remove a subscription. The `gpo` command-line utility can do most of the tasks of the GUI that you want to automate. If you are miss…

okay, thanks for the tips! i was looking at the mobile-friendly Linux podcast apps last month and had mixed experiences. passed over gpodder because i saw a sqlite database and thought it'd be hard to configure externally. but i just installed it on my Pinephone and great first impressions! i'll take a look at integrating this into my nix config after i try it out a bit more, maybe make some wrapper that ingests some…

yeah i just made a ~/.config/gpodderFeeds.opml file and pointed gpodder.desktop to a wrapper that invokes `gpo import ~/.config/gpodderFeeds.opml` before handing off to the real gpodder.

i think this causes the start time to be linear w.r.t. the number of feeds, but it’s working fine for the time being

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