Podbird reignited

ImmyChan

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't there been upstream changes to Podbird that aren't yet in the binary build on OpenStore? Maybe someone should build upstream and push it to upstream?

CiberSheep

@ImmyChan «Updated : April 14th 2020» from

https://open-store.io/app/com.mikeasoft.podbird

From launchpad:

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~michael-sheldon/podbird/trunk/changes/204?start_revid=204

geekvine

@theare27 surely it might be simpler use content-hub and set the Music app as an external player, i'll have to look into it. i know sailfish os has this option.

theare27

@geekvine I know what I've done isn't ideal in any way - but it's let me work around things for now
The ideal would be for Podbird to be able to remember the queue, it's position within the episode and be able to resume playback on restart

Using Music App as a player is not without it's drawbacks, if I play any actual music now I lose my position in the podcast episode so my setup isn't ideal by far - it's just a bit more livable than where I was before

I don't think I have the skill to hack on Podbird, not in terms of the code itself but in building & debugging and knowing how it interacts with the OS, but if I could here would be my to-do list

Add a link to the "Now Playing" screen to the hamburger menu so that one can navigate back to that screen with ease
Either remove the code that clears the queue on exit, or, add a "Remember Queue on Exit" config flag and make that code conditional on that flag
Make sure that Podbird is now capable of remembering both the Queue and the position within the episode between sessions
Currently, when a new episode is tapped it wipes the Queue - add a dialog here to ask "Replace current queue and play this episode" or "Append episode to current queue and play"

Those changes put together I believe would eliminate my issues and then there wouldn't be a need to involve the Music App at all

arubislander

@theare27
Those are some.fine requests. If implemented, some would improve Podbird or a range of users.

@theare27 said in Podbird reignited:

Currently, when a new episode is tapped it wipes the Queue - add a dialog here to ask "Replace current queue and play this episode" or "Append episode to current queue and play"

This one though, I think a dialogue at every tap would quickly become annoying.
The Kodi Media player has a settings option where the user can set the default action to selecting audio as either being: play (which would be what Podbird does now) or add to queue (which is the proposed functionality).
Something similar could be added to Podbird. I feel that the trailing action, when you wipe to the left on an episode would then also need to change, based in the default. So when default is play, then the action should be queue as it is now. And when the default is add to queue, then the action should be play.

theare27

@arubislander that'd be fine too

geekvine

@theare27 all trivial and fixed on a personal build. Currently looking at the track position problem.

theare27

@geekvine Sounds fab
Happy to help with testing etc

CiberSheep

@theare27 said in Podbird reignited:

The ideal would be for Podbird to be able to remember the queue, it's position within the episode and be able to resume playback on restart

I agree this is the ideal: fix Podbird.

geekvine

anyone have a working email for Michael? The one i found just came back to me as no good (like 3 days later).

Giiba

Care to share the build for testing?

I'd be happy to poke about and test a bit.

geekvine

@Giiba there is a build in testing in the wild...but to amswer your question - soon (tm)

domubpkm

@geekvine Working, i don't know but not secret and found in UTTT :

danqo6

@geekvine He is on telegram too, as @MikeSheldon

wilson

@geekvine Any updates on sharing your personal build? With the PinePhone shipping soon I'd be more than happy to test the fixes you've implemented.

geekvine

@wilson i will post a build for download possibly this weekend. working on a couple fixes based on feedback from the current build. that build will be available on the gitlab repo (not yet public).

Elleo

Heya,

Just stumbled across this (if you need to contact me in the future my email address is mike@mikeasoft.com)

Feel free to fork the project if you'd like to take over maintenance of it, I'd rather it saw active development than languished due to my lack of time.

A major reason I'd stuck with Launchpad was for the translation integration and the excellent contributions from the Ubuntu Translators group. I think internationalisation is extremely important for usability (if something's not available in a language you speak it's pretty much unusable regardless of what else it offers), so if you do switch to a git hosting platform I'd appreciate it if you could set-up equivalent translation infrastructure.

Best of luck
Mike

Elleo

Oh also, I own the podbird.org domain, if you'd like me to point the DNS towards somewhere else let me know.

Back before Ubuntu Touch was dropped by Canonical I had been working on some network services to sync subscriptions between devices, offer charts and recommendations, and to provide push notifications for new episodes; if you'd like to carry on with any of that work I've uploaded the site source code here:

https://github.com/Elleo/podbird-web

And the corresponding client code is in this branch:

https://code.launchpad.net/~michael-sheldon/podbird/sync-settings-devel

Cheers,
Mike

CiberSheep

@Elleo said in Podbird reignited:

[...] I had been working on [...]

That sounds really cool...

CiberSheep

@Elleo said in Podbird reignited:

Feel free to fork the project if you'd like to take over maintenance of it

Isn't it better to push changes to your repo? Or do you prefer to step back from the project?

You did a great job and we really appreciate your app, remember that