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Your moved path should still work, the only path that can’t and already doesn’t work as far as I understand it is ~ and anything directly under it.

What happens even now in your case is that your config is read from the default paths and then based on that it will look for downloads at the path you mentioned.

102

You can still use your SD card because that is a permission gPodder will request.

The idea of application jails is good, you don’t want one application to read secrets from other applications etc, though the way that gPodder has to ask for permissions to allow most custom paths still ends up pretty broad.

I’m already pretty late to the party implementing this and Jolla has already moved to forcing sailjail on all application just with very broad permissions, while I could continue ignoring it that would just mean that if/when they stop the broader transitional permissions there would be far more pain in migrating.

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103

OK, so that is not the default. I honestly couldn’t remember anymore.

I’m not worried for myself btw, I just meant that the folder containing the actual media is the only thing some users might even care for; apart from that, automigration ahoy!

104

I’m happy to announce version 4.18.0 - “Cherut”

Cherut has some UI/UX improvements, on the Player it will display a chapter list should the podcast provide chapter information and the shownotes are now also shown in the player.

At the moment the chapters are “inert” but I already have a version where you can tap them to jump to them, however since it is also part of further changes to the Player UI/UX and I really wanted to make this release already that will come in the next release.

On the player the cover art also behaves better than it used to, where in the past it would not always show properly that should now no longer be the case.

Lastly the loading screen now shows for as long as it takes to load all the podcasts and gives basic feedback on what is happening.

The last change is also the first step towards the switch to enabling/properly configuring sailjail, at this time it will show the status of the different folders, which should be “needs migration”, in the future it will also actually run the migration, I am considering also adding this information to the Settings page, but maybe that is too much effort for something that should hopefully be a one time occurrence.
For those who do want to handle the move themselves creating a .gpodder-migrate-ignore file in each directory that needs migration will now show the message “user inhibited” and when I implement the actual migration code will skip the folder.

The next version will probably refine most of the concepts introduced now and in the last version a bit more and when the SailJail config ships it will be 5.0.

Thanks to @eson for the rapid submission of Swedish translations, please note that I made this release fast so all the many translating heroes did not really have time to update the translations yet, sorry about that.

I would like to thank my sponsors on GitHub (@PeperJohnny and @schmittlauch) and while I hate to be begging like this it really does help me, these days I am a freelancer in the programming/sysadmin Linux/HPC space and the last period has been brutally dry for me, so if you can sponsor me or if you would like to send some work my way please DM me.

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105

I have a question for you guys about chapters, there is already a pull down menu item to get to a chapter overview when chapters are available, this would seem to be the more “SFOS” way of doing things, so should I just leave it at that or do you prefer having a dropdown menu on the playerpage?

(Please note that at least based on my own experience it seems that podcasts with chapters are somewhat of a rarity, at least none of the ~25 English podcasts that I follow have them I now am subscribed to a German podcast just to test these features, so it could be you never saw this yet)

Way to show chapters
  • Pulldown
  • Dropdown
  • Both
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106

Very difficult to answer because i have not podcasts with chapters. So my vote is “both” :slight_smile:

107

I see zero votes on “both” in the poll results.

108

The following may be more of a question for Jolla people but maybe also people here can help:

I have at least one open issue related to remapping of unicode characters to ascii, my assumption is that this was done back in the day to enable storing podcasts on FAT32 filesystems, myself I format my SD cards with Linux filesystems and modern cards ship with exFAT which supports unicode so I am wondering whether this is still needed.

@vige maybe you or someone on the team has some insights about this? Should I open this as a new topic since it is not only related to gPodder?

109

I’m a bit late, the poll is closed. But I vote for pulldown.

110

I have tried all three podcast apps I could find on Jolla Store.
gPodder is the only one left on my phone because it has the least amount of obvious bugs, but it is not really usable on my phone (xperia 10 v, sailfish os 5.0.0.67).

Issues:

  1. I cannot see the queue. I think I saw it once. Never seen it since.
  2. Queuing doesn’t work (anymore?). Maybe it only worked that one time when I saw the queue.
  3. Skip 10 sec and skip 1 min buttons are identical.
  4. Changing playback speed is permanent and I cannot return to previous speed. It also sets the total time of the queue(?) to zero.
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Hey,

Hope these answers will be useful:

  1. The Queue shows/should show in the player (I verified this on my 10ii before posting with downloaded episodes).
  2. You can enqueue an episode by pressing the “+” icon in the dropdown menu of the episode where you would also hit play on the episode.
  3. You are correct, I believe we used to use different icons and I don’t remember what happened, I think Jolla changed what icons were available at some point or how they were named.
  4. This is due to the underlying QML MediaPlayer being buggy, not in the scope of my project, some have suggested I switch to python-gstreamer while this provides very interesting opportunities it is a very serious overhaul of the project that would require time I don’t have. While I could hope for Jolla to update Qt/QML and maybe have a less buggy experience of this feature all the signs point to this not happening (look on the forum for all discussions about newer Qt releases and GPLv3).

We add playback rate control, please note that it is not the stablest of things but since this is also the case for other media applications that use it we’re still adding it.
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