2 === Todo List for gPodder ===
4 * At one time, in another life, I tried out a Podcast client that let you
5 change certain ID3 fields for each feed's podcasts. This was a setting
6 that impacted all the podcasts in that feed preiviously downloaded as
7 well as all future downloaded podcasts. I really thought that was a
8 great idea. Titles can be too long or have odd characters, genres can
9 be left off, or changed to fit your idea of categorization, etc. It
10 could be set up so that when you subscribe to a feed, you could
11 overwrite some certain fields with the tag data you want.
13 (suggested by Clark Burbidge <clarkburbidge@gmail.com>)
15 * Thomas, I'd be fine with the mp3 sync thing if it did two things.
16 One it needs like a command line option for "syncing". And than
17 right now it copies all podcasts. It would be very useful if there
18 were an option to `move podcasts when syncing` ¬ just copy them.
19 I have tons of podcasts and and often don't have enough hard drive
20 space to two copies - even worse I don't have the time to manage two
21 copies, except for having tcsh foreach &remove podcasts after syncing.
22 But anyways just a wish list.
24 (suggested by Katy G.B. <uberChicGeekChick@dystonia-dreams.org>)
28 Please could the timeout on updating the feed cache be reduced? I
29 currently have 27 feeds in gPodder and if one of the RSS feeds is
30 down for whatever reason, it takes a long, long time before it
31 continues to check the other feeds. I think a timeout of 10 seconds
34 (suggested by Paul Elliott <omahns.home@gmail.com>)
36 * My element for the wishlist: have gPodder produce a sound when a
37 download is comlete, like DownThemAll has. It is very convenient
38 when you are not watching the download progress to get an audible
39 indication that the process has finished.
41 (suggested by Wilfred van Rooijen <wvanrooijen@yahoo.com>)
43 * Maybe a "read RSS from shell pipe" would be helpful
45 * It really bugs me how I have to wait half a minute every time I start
46 gPodder while my feeds are updating. Wouldn't it be better if you'd let
47 the feeds update in the background? You could, perhaps, place a status
48 bar at the bottom of the window to display the progress instead.
50 (suggested by Pieter De Decker (pdedecker gmail com)
52 * Would it be possible to implement a "delete all from all channels"
53 feature? I'm finding myself downloading episodes, sending them to my
54 iPod, and then handling deletion via gtkpod.
56 (suggested by Andy Busch (buschap at speakeasy.net)
58 * It would be great if gpodder supported (either through preferences or
59 through an addition to the device list) the ability to synchronize only
60 unplayed podcasts or the last "x" number of unplayed podcasts. This is a
61 feature that is currently supported by iTunes and would be of great help
62 for persons with limited free space on their devices or massive podcast
65 -> partially done (unplayed podcasts as an option)
67 -- suggested by Stephan Buys <stephan.buys@gmail.com>
69 * I think it would be nice if gPodder had a color indicator (like it
70 already has for downloaded/deleted episodes) for podcasts that haven't
71 been transferred to the device yet. What do you think? Is this possible?
72 (Pieter De Decker, pdedecker gmail.com)
74 * Utilize DesktopEntry in python-xdg for libplayers
76 * Now for a genuine feature request: a search box?
77 -> partially implemented (search-as-you-type in available episodes)
78 (Michel Salim; michel.salim gmail.com)
80 * My second suggestion is to include a systray icon similar to the ones
81 many music players have. It would be great if I could hide/show the
82 gpodder window by clicking on it. Getting current download status on
83 mouseover would be amazing. Being notified when a download finished
84 either by status icon or notification popup would be the ne plus
85 ultra. :) (suggested by Holger Bauer -- umarmung@email.de)
87 * Also, is there an automated way to keep only the most recent X episodes?
88 (suggested by Andy -- apblist@speakeasy.net)
90 * the sync command seems to be a one-way transfer. It doesn't seem to delete
91 from the iPod the episodes that have been deleted in gpodder. Sure, I
92 can use the "clean up" command, which seems to delete all of them, and
93 then sync, but that's a lot of extra disk activity.
94 (suggested by Andy -- apblist@speakeasy.net)
97 -> maybe delete podcasts that are deleted locally but still on ipod
99 * My favourite Videocast offers 3gp-Files (for mobiles) and m4v-Files
100 (for iPods) in his feed.gPodder loads the low quality m4v-File, which
101 is not only low quality, kaffeine can't even play it. How can I
102 change the behaviour to load the m4-File? Maybe a list with filetype
103 priorities would help. (suggested by Timm Preetz <timm -- preetz us>)
105 * In preferences dialog, have two choices for programs (one for video
106 podcasts, one for audio podcasts)
107 (suggested by Philipp Ottlinger, otg@aiki-it.de)
109 * as i prefer to be behind a VPN-Tunnel i alwas stuck at certain Feeds
110 when i update the podcasts. So it would be nice if i could have a
111 skip button on that windows coz gpodder would wait forever
112 (suggested by Juergen.Schinker <ba1020@homie.homelinux.net>)
114 -------------------------
116 * Make (at least optional) it possible to populate MP3 files' tags from
117 the metadata found in the feed. Possible options:
119 -> Never populate MP3 files
120 -> Only populate when MP3 files don't yet have tags
121 -> Always populate; overwrite old tags if existing
123 (partially implemented already)
125 (Thanks to ubunt2@gmail.com for suggesting the metadata populate feat.)
127 * in libipodsync.py: use mime magic instead of extension-based
128 video detection? --> also, is mp4 always video or could it be
129 aac audio too? if so, how to check what is what?
131 according to http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62723,
132 mp4 files can be both audio and video files.. m4v and m4a are wrong
133 extensions introduced by apple.. maybe a stripped-down mime magic
134 detection could do the trick? (we only need to detect the file types
135 supported by ipods, after all.. mp3, aac, wav, mov, mp4-video, ..?)