[Owncloud] podcatcher app

[Frank Karlitschek]

Hmm not sure.

They are technically similar because they are both based on RSS but the workflow and the use-cases are completely different. At least for me.
So I wouldn´t mind two independent specialized applications.

Frank



On 25.06.2012, at 23:14, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:

> Podcast app and newsreader should ideally be the same app, since
> podcasts are audio-blogs. Oftentimes people don’t bother to listen to
> the podcast if there are shownotes.
> 
> But of course, if it’s a podcast, there should be stuff like embedded
> media player etc. The read it later / listen to it later function is
> the same for text as it is for audio.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alessandro Cosentino
> <cosenal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Fred,
>> 
>> thanks for the interest in ownCloud.
>> 
>> Yes, a podcatcher app for ownCloud is one of the future ideas. It's
>> already mentioned here: http://owncloud.org/dev/junior-jobs/
>> And I also mentioned it in my proposal, see
>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/cosenal/1
>> 
>> Right now I am thinking of just marking with an attachment-like icon
>> posts that contains an audio/video enclosure, such as podcasts.
>> It's hard to say yet in which part of the two apps (feed reader and
>> podcatcher) intersect, I would guess that definitely in the parsing
>> part. Moreover, I am not sure that the podcatcher should be a separate
>> app from the Music app.
>> 
>> Anyway, I am cc'ing this answer and your email to the owncloud ml, so
>> that we avoid having people working independently on the same things.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Alessandro
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Fred Lutzer <m.kltrg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Alessandro,
>>> 
>>> I understand that you are working on an ownCloud RSS app. I'm really
>>> looking forward to using it.
>>> But there is another thing I'd really like to see in ownCloud and that
>>> is a podcatcher. I'm not too good a programmer but since it seems that
>>> nobody is working on it, I'm willing to start. Since feedreader and
>>> podcatcher are somehow related, I just wanted to ask for which parts
>>> we could team up to avoid doing the same work twice and which parts of
>>> your already done work I could perhaps recycle for a podcatcher app.
>>> 
>>> As I mentioned, I haven't done programming for quite a while now and I
>>> don't know anything about the internal structure of ownCloud so far.
>>> I'm happy about all the help I can get. Thanks in advance!
>>> 
>>> Bye,
>>> 
>>> kltrg
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