AmiPodder 1.6

Short:        Subscribe to, download + manage podcasts
Author:       Robert Williams
Uploader:     "Robert Williams" <robert seal-amiga co uk>
Type:         comm/misc
Version:      1.6
Replaces:     comm/misc/AmiPodder.lha
Requires:     MUI, rxMUI, NList.mcc, TheBar.mcc
Architecture: generic

AmiPodder is a freeware podcast client for computers running AmigaOS and
other compatible operating systems. With AmiPodder you can subscribe to
podcast feeds (usually for free), download episodes and then listen to them
on your Amiga or transfer them to a portable music player. AmiPodder
supports audio and video podcasts and has many useful features.

For further information, screen shots etc., visit the AmiPodder web site at:
http://www.amipodder.com

Features

* Subscribe to podcast feeds.
* Download podcasts using IBrowse, AWeb, Charon or wget.
* Download podcasts from bittorrent feeds using CTorrent.
* Organise your subscribed podcasts into groups.
* Browse available podcasts in your subscribed feeds and download them.
* Automatically check for new episodes, you can set how often AmiPodder
  checks and which podcasts it should check.
* Play audio podcasts in AmigaAmp, AmiNetRadio, Delitracker or TuneNet.
* Play video podcasts in any movie player including MPlayer and Frogger.
* Optionally, automatically download new podcasts when they are available.
* "Sync" new podcasts to any portable music player that appears as a volume
  on Workbench.
* Manage downloaded podcast files and those synced to your player.
* Independent download and sync preferences for audio and video podcasts.

Requirements

AmiPodder is written in AREXX and has a MUI interface implemented with
rxMUI. It also requires the NList and TheBar MUI custom classes.

Changes in this release:

Version 1.6, 24/06/2007

User interface enhancements
ADDED: Icons in the channel list to show a channel's status (smart, active
       or inactive). Thanks to Ken Lester for providing the new icons.
ADDED: The new "Manage files" smart channel which allows you to search for
       podcasts over a certain age and choose to delete some or all of them.
ADDED: Double clicking on an item now starts to play it (suggested by Mick
       Sutton).
ADDED: A download option when playing a podcast that is not available.
ADDED: Localisation support, thanks to Bernd Gollesch for his assistance
       with optimising my implementation.
ADDED: Italian and German translations, thanks to Samir Hawamdeh and H.-J.
       Ottinger respectively.
CHANGE: The status of each item is now represented by an icon.
CHANGE: The main window now opens more quickly and a progress bar is shown
        while the channels load.
CHANGE: AmiPodder now automatically checks for completed downloads when the
        "Downloaded" smart channel is selected.
CHANGE: The main window is now refreshed while files are synced.
CHANGE: The Items list should now scroll to show selection after it is
        refreshed.
CHANGE: The busy pointer is now displayed during save channels and check
        downloads operations.
CHANGE: The "Downloaded" smart channel now shows items of downloaded and
        played status.
Other improvements
ADDED: Support for downloading and sniffing RSS feeds using http-handler if
       available (thanks to Chris Young).
CHANGE: Podcasts are now recognised as downloaded if they are up to 100KB
        smaller than expected.
CHANGE: The RSS parser is now a little faster (roughly 5-10%).
Bug fixes
FIXED: The URL could be lost while sniffing leading to 404 error messages.
FIXED: "Editing Items" remained in the status bar after the window was
       cancelled.
FIXED: The download file name was not truncated if the download URL was
       redirected.
FIXED: Redirected file names were not decoded (e.gl. %hh entities were not
       removed).
FIXED: File names containing brackets "()" or other AmigaDOS wildcard
       characters were not being synced.
FIXED: A problem which occurred with newer versions of SFS (reported by
       Chris Young).
FIXED: The option "Remove old entries..." might not be obeyed depending on
       how the list was refreshed (reported by deakmann).
FIXED: Smart channels did not refresh properly after changing the status
       of an item.
FIXED: The video sync directory was checked even if sync video podcasts was
       not selected.
FIXED: A length limitation in the Add Channel URL field.
FIXED: Broken video syncing once and for all (hopefully!)
FIXED: A bug where the selection was not retained after downloading selected
       items.
FIXED: a fatal error when a podcast file had a very long file extension.

License

AmiPodder is freeware and you use it at your own risk.