gPodder Portable 2.12 has been released. gPodder is an easy to use podcast receiver that will download and manage your podcast subscriptions. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free. Read on for more details...
Features
- iPod, MP3 player and mobile phone support
- RSS, Atom, YouTube and Soundcloud feeds
- Focus on Usability
- Integrated with the gpodder.net Web Service
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
gPodder Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
gPodder Portable is available for immediate download from the gPodder Portable homepage. Get it today!
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GREAT to see this app here! I've been using the windows version for just under a year and I absolutely LOVE it. I give it a workout with quite a few podcasts, and its never let me down. Thanks for this one guys! And if you havent used it and need a pod catcher, you should really give this one a chance!
changing download directory
Changing the download directory in PREFERENCES => EDIT CONFIG => DOWNLOAD_DIR failed.
This seems to be a known bug in the Windows version according to the gpodder.org site.
Found the following instructions there:
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Michael H. 2010-09-17 18:14:54 BST
This workaround allows you to set the download directory via the EDIT CONFIG
button in the PREFERENCES window: simply convert lines 77 and 78 in launch.py
into comments with the #, like so:
# download_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'downloads')
# os.environ['GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR'] = download_dir
You can now change the download directory from the gpodder user interface and
the change will be saved in \config\gpodder.conf.
BTW: the launcher.py file is located in \lib\site-packages\gpodder\
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I condensed it a bit and combined two of Michael H.'s posts.
This, however, did still not allow me to change the download directory (well: I could change the directory in the EDIT CONFIG window, but the change wasn't persistent).
Then I looked gPodderPortable.ini in "\PortableApps\gPodderPortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher" and found that there also is a download directory setting in the ENVIRONMENT section. I changed "GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=%PAL:DataDir%\downloads" to "GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=O:\Podcasts_gPodder" and this did change my download dir in gpodder.
I first moved all my pods to the new location, too, and when I restarted gpodder all pods were present and playable. New downloads end up there as well.
Reason why I wanted to do that:
I work with a portable HDD (500MB) with 3 partitions. The first partition is my main partition (100MB) with my PortableApps software and my data. This partition is backed up frequently.
The third partition (in my case drive letter "O") has a size 250GB and I use it for voluminous data sets which I do not have to / do not want to backup frequently.
Moving the download directory (holding audio AND video pods) away from its default location saves quite a bit of backup time for me.
Maybe this is useful info for some of you, too.
Changing player apps
While I'm at it, here are my two cents on changing the default audio player and video player apps (which is not possible in Juice).
Click on the edit icons to right of the Audio player / video player fields and paste the full application paths for e.g. cool player and vlc.
Enclosing the paths with quotation marks did the trick.
Now my podcast experience is portable all the way.