[Owncloud] podcatcher app

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

Alessandro, Fred,

did you do some research on how people use newsreaders & podcasting
apps, also contrasting the two?

Also please check out the current go-to apps for both: Google Reader,
NewsBlur, Flipboard, Instacast, …



On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
> 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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