There is no output sadly. I deinstalled the one downloaded from OpenRepos and installed via Jolla store but with the same result. I tap the icon of the installed gPodder app and the AppCover opens with the spinner. The spinner keeps spinning, spinning, spinning but nothing happens and the eventually the AppCover closes. I am new to SFOS, is there maybe a directory or something where I might find logs for this?
If it happens when you have another one of a certain group of apps open (to which the phone jumps while trying to open gpodder), it’s another manifestation of the common j2 launcher defect for which the solution is promised for next update. Gpodder works for me, but I see similar issues with OSMscout.
I don’t have a JP2026 yet so can’t test it.
Did you approve the sandbox permissions? Otherwise maybe it’s stuck trying to create the folders it needs.
There are logs that are generated but unless you are comfortable diving into the CLI I don’t know how to tell you to get to them.
Maybe adding an option to pull the logs related to an app from settings would be good now that I think of it.
That was it! I closed the screen time app it was jumping to when trying to open gPodder and now I can open and normally use gPodder. But not the screen time app anymore 
so yeah it seems to be that launcher bug and has nothing to do with gPodder. Sorry for the noise 
Great to have a system podcast application and it is stable (arriving from Antennapod).
I observed, when setting a dowload folder gPodder automatically makes sub-folders for all my subscriptions. (Even if there no episodes from a particular subscription downloaded) This does make sence as feature but as I have +40 subscriptions, this creates a lot of folders to the “Music” folder. Perhaps, there could be a default folder which is made to contain the subfolders?
Not sure if it has been asked before, but could you please add the ability to sync your podcasts to a Nextcloud instance having the gPodder sync application installed?
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You can create a folder in Music and point gPodder at that folder?
It’s on the list of future things.
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Yayyy, awesome. Looking forward for it then.
Yeah, I can make a folder for the subscription folders. I don’t see this as a bug… But it was a surprise to get +40 subscription-folders to the designated folder, when trying to download a single episode.
Hello all,
Brief intro, I’m an old user of Sailfish OS on the original Sony Xperia X, who then moved to /e/ OS and I just got my Jolla Phone 2026. I’m new to gpodder, currently trying to migrate from Antennapod, which I absolutely love. Having looked at the manual, I (think) I’m missing the following options/features. If they’re already there kindly enlighten me!
- An inbox where I can easily check and download new episodes of my subscriptions on a daily basis
- The ability to easily rearrange items in my queue, at the moment I can only remove an item from the queue and not move it up or down
- An option to bulk-delete played downloaded episodes (delete played episodes)
- The option to skip silence in audio
- The skip button doesn’t work for me and it’s set for 10 seconds (I’d like that to be configurable if possible)
- There’s no playback position indicator so I can manually adjust the playing position
- The Shownotes at the end of the queue is a bit inconvenient (I have long queues)
Thanks in advance!
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It does work for me, and there’s two different ones (10s and 1min iirc)
- There’s no playback position indicator so I can manually adjust the playing position
Manually adjusting the playing position is possible. Just tap a point on the timeline or drag the indicator.
This would be perfect!
Please note that gPodder desktop and gPodder sailfish while sharing a creator (thp) are not the same codebase so some features mentioned in that manual may not be present.
In the top pulley menu there is “Filter Episodes” and if you set the filter to “Fresh” I believe that is what you are asking for.
PRs are always welcome
I am very hesitant with features that can mess up peoples data (one of the reasons why the current dev cycle is taking too long), but I guess at some point some cleanup functions may make sense.
I don’t think the QML MediaPlayer (based on Qt QMediaPlayer) supports this.
As pointed out by @ohnonot there is +/-10s and +/-60s, it could be that the audioformat you were listening to does not support it (or if you changed the playback speed you will notice that for some files/streams duration goes to 0 which also prevents skipping, this is a bug with the underlying QMediaPlayer over which I have no influence).
Would you say the shownotes should go before the queue? Intuitively the queue seems more important than the notes.
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No, the shownotes should go after the queue. Unless there is a separate view for doing everything with queue items the visible queue could be fixed item height with scroll if in current position between player and shownotes?
I don’t claim that my feedback holds true for everyone and perhaps (probably) I’m too entrenched in my ways with AntennaPod but at the moment I just find gpodder slightly confusing.
From what I’ve gathered, Fresh on gpodder means just not downloaded, I would expect that the “fresh” list is updated every time I check for new episodes and not show episodes from when the podcast started 10 years ago.
My bad on this one, but I’d prefer that instead of having 2 FF buttons of different skip durations, to have one that skips forward in time (configurable) and one that skips to the next track.
The shownotes ideally for me should be hidden and expandable when one presses an “i” or “shownotes” button in the currently playing view.
Alas, my experience in coding is absolutely zero…
Also, I seem to lose my queue every time I close the app, am I missing sth?
Let me take this opportunity however to thank you for your efforts in bringing this software to Sailfish and maintaining it for all these years, much appreciated!
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