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- Juice -- The cross-platform Podcast receiver
- --------------------------------------------
-
- http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
- Version 2.2 -- November 11, 2005
-
- New in 2.2
- ----------
-
- 1. iPodder -> Juice name change
-
- 2. Expanded support for various one-click subscription mechanisms.
- On Windows: a File Types tab in Preferences to set these behaviors.
-
- 3. Clipboard support for feed/podcast URLs on Windows/Mac
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- 4. Winamp support for playing and enqueuing files. (Windows only)
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- 5. User guide, linked from Start -> iPodder -> UserGuide on Windows.
-
- 6. Downloaded files are named after the final URL instead of the
- initial URL when HTTP redirects are encountered.
-
- 7. Enriched the history data we save, to allow us to support a number of
- new features. For example, script-powered download URLs should work
- now.
-
- 8. The history database cleans up after itself, deleting history
- records for items that are both old and no longer present in
- the feed.
-
- 9. Allow re-downloading files that have gone missing by marking
- them as Removed.
-
- 10. New languages: Danish, Basque, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Greek
-
- 11. Added support for password-protected proxies (HTTP Basic and Digest).
-
- 12. Added support for password-protected feeds and downloads
- (HTTP Basic and Digest). Please note: protected downloads must live
- on the same domain as the feed in order for this to work.
-
- 13. Download code now respects content-disposition header for download
- files whose names are different than the URL at which they're located.
-
- 14. Fixed BitTorrent abort/resume. Partially downloaded BitTorrents now
- show up with Partial status instead of Downloaded.
-
- 15. Fixed a bug in Windows Media Player support that resulte in Date Added
- not getting set. Date-based auto-playlists work now.
-
- 16. Feedmanager OPML fetcher now runs in a background thread unless we're
- about to do a download run.
-
- 17. Directory root for newly added directories, where we'll put
- directories that haven't yet been added to the stable release.
-
- 18. Moved scheduler configuration data into ipodder.cfg
-
- 19. Minor refactors: moved iPodder.py to ipodder/core.py,
- moved iPodderWindows.py to the gui directory.
-
- 20. Python24 compatibility fixes (ongoing)
-
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- ------------------
-
- BASIC INSTRUCTIONS:
-
- 1. Launch iPodder
-
- 2. Add podcast feeds.
-
- a. Option 1. Copy/paste podcast feed URLs into the text input box on the
- Status tab and click Add Feed.
-
- b. Option 2. Click on the Directory tab. Navigate the tree
- by clicking or double-clicking on the name of the directory or the folder icons.
-
- Podcast feeds will have a orange dash icon next to them. When you select a
- feed, its URL will appear at the bottom of the window. Add the feed
- to your subscriptions by clicking Add. It should show up in the main
- subscriptions window with state "newly-subscribed".
-
- 3. Set scheduler options
-
- A bit of magic happens when you pick up your MP3 player and fresh content
- is already there waiting for you. Use iPodder to schedule automatic downloads
- by entering the times you'd like it to run in the Tools -> Scheduler menu option.
- First check the box next to "Enable scheduler". If you'd like
- iPodder to run at specific times, select the "Check at these specific times" radio
- button and enter the specific times. If you plan to listen to podcasts on
- your morning commute, you might set iPodder to perform downloads a few hours
- before you leave. Alternatively, you can set iPodder to run at regular
- intervals. Select the interval from the "Repeat every" menu. Finally, click
- "Save and Close" to apply the settings.
-
- 4. Walk away
-
- Well, not literally. But do hide or minimize iPodder and forget about it for
- a while. Based on your scheduler settings, iPodder will check for and download
- new content and transfer it to your iTunes or Windows Media Player. Of course
- if you'd like you can check for new podcasts at any time, just be prepared to
- stare the download progress bar for a bit.
-
- 5. Listen!
-
- When you're ready to listen, sync your MP3 player and you're on your way.
- If you're running Windows and leave your iPod connected, iPodder will
- automatically sync it after finishing its downloads.
-
- 6. Power user tip
-
- To help manage the volume of new content, we suggest using your music management
- software to create a smart playlist of the last N songs added.
-
-
- IF UPGRADING FROM 1.1 through 2.0.5:
-
- Nothing to say here.
-
- IF UPGRADING FROM 1.0:
-
- Windows: Ideally everything went well and your existing settings were migrated by
- the installer. Keep reading if your settings were lost. In iPodder 1.0 the settings
- were stored in the iPodder installation directory, probably
- C:\Program Files\iPodder. Starting with version 1.1 the configuration are placed outside
- the installation directory, in a user-specific directory, if possible. The default location
- is the NT-style Application directory, usually
- C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\Application Data\iPodder. If your settings were lost,
- try locating these three files in the previous installation directory and copying them to
- the new configuration directory: favorites.txt, history.txt, schedule.txt.
-
- Mac: Ideally everything went well and your existing settings were migrated by
- the installer. Keep reading if your settingswere lots. In iPodder 1.0 the
- settings were stored in the iPodder installation directory, probably
- /Applications/iPodder. Starting with 1.1 the configuration files are placed
- outside the installation directory, in a user-specific directory, if possible.
- The default location is /Users/yourname/.iPodder. Note that this directory
- will be hidden in the finder because it begins with a (.). You may navigate
- directory to this folder by selecting Go from the Finder menu and typing in
- the folder location. If your settings were lost, try locating these three
- files in the previous installation directory and copying them to the new
- configuration directory: favorites.txt, history.txt, schedule.txt.
-
- NEW IN RELEASE 2.1:
-
- - One-click subscription support enabled as voted on in the ipodder-dev
- Yahoo! groups list and documented here:
- http://pswg.jot.com/WikiHome/DraftPublications/OneClickSpec2
-
- - Synch subscriptions to remote OPML file (under File -> Preferences ->
- Feed manager).
-
- - Auto cleanup. Ability to specify on a per-feed basis that episodes older
- than N days should be auto-cleaned up. Cleanups take place immediately
- after each check for new episodes. These options are set in the feed
- properties window, reachable by double-clicking on the feed or from the
- right-click menu for the feed.
-
- - Genre overriding in iTunes. See File -> Preferences -> Player.
-
- - New translations: Spanish, Galego, Catalan, Russian, Serbo-Croation,
- Hungarian, Chinese, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish.
-
- - Accessibility improvements: saner focus behavior, new Ctrl-L
- accelerator for the Scheduler, Shift-F10 for right-click, space bar
- toggling in the episodes window and downloads tab.
-
- - Feed manager OPML text entry box is drag and drop aware.
-
- - Catchup behavior is configurable: it can permanently (default)
- or temporarily skip older episodes.
-
- - Close window behavior is configurable: it can cause the app to
- go to the background (default) or cause the app to quit.
-
- - Hitting Del key in the feeds list deletes selected feeds.
-
- - Update checker can be disabled (under File -> Preferences).
-
- - Windows app will now wake rather than complain if a second copy is running.
-
- - New right-click option for feeds: Open downloads folder
-
- - Right-click menus in the episodes and downloads tab link to show
- notes and hyperlinks found within RSS item description.
-
- - A window now pops up when the disk space falls below the minimum,
- instead of seeming to freeze.
-
- - Cleaned up episodes are removed from Downloads tab.
-
- - iPodder/Mac now sets iTunes grouping to 'Podcast', just like Windows.
-
- - Updated Windows installer: detects running iPodder, new look.
-
- - Plugin architecture supporting the new right-click menus. In progress.
-
- - New localization architecture supports drop-in .py catalog files.
-
- - New skinning code for store Level 2.
-
- - Better stability against iTunes version changes.
-
- - Partial fix for the UnicodeDecodeError for download directories
- with non-ascii characters. May not work for non-Western encodings.
-
- - Partial fix for URLs with ? in them. Downloads proceed but player
- integration still buggy.
-
- - Manual updates by dropping in an 700KB update file (lightly tested).
-
- -----------------
-
- OLDER RELEASES:
-
- 2.0 (March 16, 2005)
-
- - New resizable GUI.
- - Check/uncheck individual episodes
- - Downloads log
- - Catchup mode downloads just the latest episode from each feed.
- - Enhanced directory browsing including refresh
- - Cleanup tab
- - Internationalization
- - Multithreaded downloads
- - Cancel downloads
- - Resume interrupted downloads
- - Check for update
-
- 1.1.4 (November 17, 2004)
-
- - Enhanced, resizable podcast directory window.
-
- 1.1.3 (November 13, 2004)
-
- - This is mostly a bugfix release, major issues resolved:
- - Changes to download directory should now be persistent in cases where it wasn't (Mac/Win)
- - Manually added feeds no longer have garbage at the end (Mac)
- - Auto-play feature can now be disabled from the Preferences tab.
- - Better handling of unicode feed titles
- - Logging improvements
- - User customizable directory roots. Add a line like this to ipodder.cfg:
- podcast_directory_roots = [('http://some.root/','Some Root'),('http://some.other.root/','Some Other Root')]
-
- 1.1.2 (November 11, 2004)
-
- Short-lived precursor to 1.1.3, with a minor bug.
-
-
- 1.1 (November 4, 2004):
-
- - Select podcast feeds by using the integrated directory (OPML) inside
- iPodder or add feeds manually from the GUI.
- - Choose your own download folder!
- - The feed list now displays the title, location, downloaded MB and
- subscription state for each feed.
- - Enhanced download progress feedback.
- - Don't want to check all feeds? You can now check just one feed.
- - iPodder can now run on startup.
- - Advanced options for Power Users.
- - Automatic setting of Grouping: Podcast for iTunes/Win users.
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