IcePodder

A helpful user wrote in to say that installing the python-chardet package will fix any problems you may encounter involving umlauts in the podcast header. If you have encountered this problem, install the python-chardet package. This should be available to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn users through the package repository, other users will have to install it separately. I wasn’t able to duplicate the bug on an English system, but it apparently worked for him. Future versions of IcePodder may simply include this package as a requirement to avoid this issue. Thanks go out to Ralph Ulrich for the fix.

The first major feature I’ve been meaning to add is automatic syncing with mp3s. Icepodder can already do this via the “run this command automatically” and a script that copies the podcasts using the syntax described in the window. There is also a half-implemented “Sync with Mediaplayer” option that exists in the code, but has been disabled (I would assume because bugs still exist. I’m not positive I want to use that functionality exactly as it exists, but here are the next few steps I have planned.

• Automatically copy podcasts downloaded via “Check for Podcasts” button to an iPod Shuffle and rebuild the database. I already have this working, I anticipate it will take about a week before I can put it into Icepodder.
• Automatically copy podcasts downloaded via “Check for Podcasts” button to an iPod and rebuild the database. This should be similar enough to the above, but it will likely take another week due to my need to test it, and not owning an iPod. I imagine more of you would be able to use this, so after this is working, I’ll release it as Icepodder 5.5
• Integrate syncing mp3s and deleting old episodes to the main interface so you don’t have to enter special windows to do it. (This is probably going to be a feature for Icepodder 5.6)

If you use Linux with an mp3 player that is not any form of iPod, please comment or email me with how you typically get podcasts onto your device (do you just copy files to a location on it, do you need to run any update/rebuild scripts afterwards, do you use special software, etc.) and I’ll see that it gets included into Icepodder as best as I can manage.

Also, a user wrote up a bug for episode titles with umlauts not downloading, but I can’t seem to reproduce it. Has anyone else had this problem, and could you point me to a specific episode that fails?

Icepodder 5.4 has been released!  For those of you who are just joining us, it is the CastPodder 5.3 source with some bugfixes and revisions, and will be maintained under the terms of the GPL.  You can grab it from the download page, and let me know if there are any problems.

IcePodder 5.4 Release 1 Debian/Ubuntu Package

IcePodder 5.4 Release 1 Tarfile

Progress has been made, though I’m only just now updating the site: 3 bugs/changes have been submitted and fixed via submissions from akaihola. I’ve opened up some new bugs for issues I’ve discovered. If anyone has knowledge of autopackage, please contact me. User submissions aren’t restricted to those, so feel free to make submissions fixing anything you’ve found, from functionality changes to CastPodder->IcePodder labeling. Thanks go out to akaihola and everyone out there testing.

The problem involving enclosures that download from php mirror links should be fixed now.  I tested it with the TLLTS feed, but until I do more comprehensive testing, I’ll consider it just a band-aid.  As always, let me know if you have any feedback or insight on this.

The official place to get the most current source code is now:

svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/icepodder icepodder

Hey everyone, I’m starting this as the new website for IcePodder, a podcatcher forked from CastPodder 5.3. Coming soon will be access to SVN, and a bug reporting database, both from Sourceforge.

Edit:  The SVN and bug reporting database should be up now.  I also update the about page stating that IcePodder is a replacement for CastPodder.