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Re: [Bug-gnupod] Podcast release date (and more podcast features)


From: H. Langos
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupod] Podcast release date (and more podcast features)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:37:57 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:41:31AM +0100, davide cavallari wrote:
> Gnupod's support for the podcasts works pretty smoothly.
> 
> gnupod_addsong.pl -p "Heute Morgen" --playlist-is-podcast
> http://pod.drs.ch/heutemorgen_mpx.xml
> 
> Amazing!
> 
> I reckon it just miss one thing - it doens't fill the podcast's
> release date field. That is, the <pubDate> element of the RSS feed is
> ignored, and the episode copied on the iPod doesn't have any date
> information.
> 
> Therefore, if the episode title doesn't include the date, you don't
> know when the episode was released. Moreover, the order of the
> episodes is not correct, as the most recent episode is not the first
> in the playlist as it should.

Hi Davie,

Here's a little patch that should fix the problem.. I've send it to
Adrian but he seems to be busy at this time.




BTW: I'm working on some features to improve the podcast abilities of
gnupod and I'd like to know if anybody is interested in those. I know
that I am, but I am rather lazy and knowing that there are other
potential users would help my motivation :-)

A) A caching mechanism that would allow to use other software to download 
podcasts while your ipod is not even connected in order to speed up the 
process of adding podcasts to your ipod.

B) Extract more information from the rss feed. (E.g. I use <itunes:author> in
preference to <author> since it usually contains a name in contrast to
just an email address. And I use the rss channel title as ALBUM tag.)

C) Download podcast logos and use them as Albumart.


cheers
-henrik

PS: The patch already contains that "itunes:author over author" feature
but I'll probably rewrite that part.

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