Amarok, iPods, and podcasts

[Thad Humphries]

Yesterday I found a solution to my podcasts, iPod, and Amarok/openSuSE 11.2
problem:  GPodder <http://gpodder.org/>

YMMV, but GPodder seems to work well for me:  I was able to check all my
podcast sites (mostly NPR), download the latest podcasts, and copy them to
my 5th generation iPod.  I don't believe the interface is as nice as
Amarok's (deleting tracks from the iPod is not elegant), but it works.
GPodder 2.0 is on the openSuSE 11.2 DVD, and the GPodder website includes
installers for a number of distros.

A word of caution:  When Amarok was open in my system tray and had active
podcast subscriptions, my X session locked up when I opened GPodder.  I had
to telnet in from another machine and kill the GPodder process.  Removing
the subscriptions from Amarok before running GPodder seems to have fixed
that.

As for Amarok 2.3, I'm still adjusting to the very different interface
vis-a-vis 1.4, but I'm slowly getting used to it.  I copied a track from my
hard disk to my iPod and it went over without a hitch, album art and all.
In fact, I think the new interface for doing such copies is an improvement
over 1.4.

So while It is annoying to see my podcasts scattered about Amarok's listing
of my iPod, and though I haven't messed with playlists yet, but I'm feeling
more optimistic than I did a week ago.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Ben Cooksley <sourtooth at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Thad Humphries
> <thad.humphries at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sigh.  Is there no way to get the source and build Amarok 1.4.10 for
> > openSuSE 11.2 with KDE 4.3?
>
> I suggest you check the KDE:KDE3 openSUSE Build Service repo..
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.2/
>
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Martin Aumueller <aumuell at reserv.at>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Friday 12 March 2010 22:09:03 Thad Humphries wrote:
> >> > Thanks.  I'll hold off moving my other workstation from openSuSE 10.3
> to
> >> > 11.2 until I see how Amarok 2.3 behaves.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately we still have to disappoint you: in 2.3, podcast support
> has
> >> only been implemented for generic UMS devices, not iPods.
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Please update to Amarok 2.3 when it is out in a few days. There have
> >> > > been huge improvements since the version you are using - especially
> in
> >> > > the podcast area.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Cheers
> >> > > Lydia
> >
> > ...
> > --
> > "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where
> we
> > are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher
> > Marlowe, 'Doctor Faustus' (v, 121-24)
> >
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> Ben
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"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we
are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher
Marlowe, 'Doctor Faustus' (v, 121-24)
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