[Owncloud] podcatcher app

[Alessandro Cosentino]

I haven't done much research yet either, but I agree that they should
be different apps. Well, the podcast app could be just a plugin of the
music app and we could let it share a big portion of the code with the
newsreader.

Anyway, I first want to finish the newsreader app and I will think
about the podcatcher app from September.
Fred, feel free to do some independent research on the topic.

Alessandro

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, kltrg <m.kltrg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I don't have scientific data about how people in general are using newsreaders and podcatchers in comparison, but from my personal behaviour and from what I'v seen on other persons computers, I tend to believe that uses are so radically different that two separate apps are better. Yes, the two have a lot of (technical) stuff in common but from a users point of view, they are different use cases. Don't you think?
>
> kltrg
>
> Am 26.06.2012 00:38, schrieb 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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