Amarok, iPods, and podcasts

[Bart Cerneels]

Hopefully within a few releases you can switch back to amarok because
work is ongoing to add a good podcast implementation for iPods as
well.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 16:39, Thad Humphries <thad.humphries at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday I found a solution to my podcasts, iPod, and Amarok/openSuSE 11.2
> problem:  GPodder
>
> 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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>> Regards,
>> Ben
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