martinmouritzen/podfriend

Podfriend Podcast App

Podfriend Podcast Player

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Podfriend is your friendly Podcast Player.

Mission

We want to provide a real open alternative to big apps like Spotify, where you can use seamlessly web, mobile and desktop to listen to your podcasts.

We support the Podcasting 2.0 initiative, and we want to bring movies, chapters, locations, guests, interactive content and so much more to listeners in an open ecosystem that's not behind a walled garden.

Installation

Clone the repo, run yarn

Web

Run the development build by using yarn dev-web and build for production using yarn build-web

Desktop

Run the development build by using yarn dev and package windows using yarn package-win and Mac using yarn package

iOS

Package using yarn build-android and then package it using the Android Studio

Android

Package using yarn build-android and then package it using the Android Studio

The code is not working for me

Please open an issue, there's probably a lot of things that needs to be fixed and streamlined for it to work across more devices than just my own Windows machine and Mac laptop :)

Why is the code so weird

The code grew from being a Desktop only podcast app, to including web and mobile. The mobile version started out as a React-Native solution, before moving to Cordova. This means that a lot of components are separated in 2 components, a logic component and a UI component, to reuse logic across mobile, web and desktop. This separation is not needed for the Cordova version, so I moved away from that pattern later, but because of time haven't had the chance to reimplement a lot of that logic.

To further make the code ugly, the project started out using React class components, before transitioning to functional components.

podfriend's Issues

Installation fails on Windows

When I run yarn on Windows, this is what happens:

C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend>yarn
yarn install v1.22.5
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
info [email protected]: The platform "win32" is incompatible with this module.
info "[email protected]" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
info [email protected]: The platform "win32" is incompatible with this module.
info "[email protected]" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
warning " > @ionic-native/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "rxjs@^5.5.0 || ^6.5.0".
warning " > @ionic-native/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "rxjs@^5.5.0 || ^6.5.0".
warning " > @ionic-native/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "rxjs@^5.5.0 || ^6.5.0".
warning " > @ionic-native/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "rxjs@^5.5.0 || ^6.5.0".
warning " > @ionic/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "@ionic/[email protected]".
warning " > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "prop-types@*".
warning "react-qr-code > @react-native-community/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "react-native@*".
warning " > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "prop-types@^15.5.4".
warning "react-rewards > react-pose > popmotion-pose > pose-core > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "rollup@>=1.26.3".
warning " > [email protected]" has incorrect peer dependency "react@^16.14.0 || 17".
warning " > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "@types/react@^16.8.20".
warning " > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "typescript@^3.5.2".
warning " > [email protected]" has incorrect peer dependency "win-audio@^1.2.0".
warning " > [email protected]" has incorrect peer dependency "loudness@git+https://github.com/RyanAfrish7/node-loudness.git".
warning " > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "eslint@>= 4.12.1".
warning " > [email protected]" has incorrect peer dependency "react-redux@^4.4.8 || ^5.0.7".
warning " > [email protected]" has incorrect peer dependency "react-router@^4.3.1".
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
[-/13] ⠈ waiting...
[2/13] ⠈ node-sass
[13/13] ⠈ win-audio
[10/13] ⠈ electron
error C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\node-sass: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node scripts/build.js
Arguments:
Directory: C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\node-sass
Output:
Building: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose --libsass_ext= --libsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library=
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp verb cli [
gyp verb cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
gyp verb cli   'C:\\Users\\Anon Y. Mous\\Documents\\Home\\VC\\Podfriend\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js',
gyp verb cli   'rebuild',
gyp verb cli   '--verbose',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ext=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_cflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ldflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_library='
gyp verb cli ]
gyp info using [email protected]
gyp info using [email protected] | win32 | x64
gyp verb command rebuild []
gyp verb command clean []
gyp verb clean removing "build" directory
gyp verb command configure []
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python2" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` failed Error: not found: python2
gyp verb `which` failed     at getNotFoundError (C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12)
gyp verb `which` failed     at F (C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19)
gyp verb `which` failed     at E (C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29)
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\isexe\index.js:42:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:36:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (node:fs:195:21)
gyp verb `which` failed  python2 Error: not found: python2
gyp verb `which` failed     at getNotFoundError (C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12)
gyp verb `which` failed     at F (C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19)
gyp verb `which` failed     at E (C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29)
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\isexe\index.js:42:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:36:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (node:fs:195:21) {
gyp verb `which` failed   code: 'ENOENT'
gyp verb `which` failed }
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` succeeded python C:\Python39\python.EXE
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: C:\Python39\python.EXE -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack   File "<string>", line 1
gyp ERR! stack     import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack                       ^
gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:397:12)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:394:28)
gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1067:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:301:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.19043
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\Anon Y. Mous\\Documents\\Home\\VC\\Podfriend\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\Anon Y. Mous\Documents\Home\VC\Podfriend\node_modules\node-sass
gyp ERR! node -v v16.4.0





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Podcasts won't play on Android APK app

Hello,

I just get the infinite wheel spinning when I try to play any podcast. I am running Android 12 CalyxOS version 3.3.0 and I have MicroG enabled. Not sure if your app is using Google Play services or some other dependency that is stripped from CalyxOS, but I thought you should know that it doesn't seem to be working for playback. If you are unfamiliar with CalyxOS, it is very similar to AOSP and should basically work the same as any degoogled Android 12 ROM.

Disable Autoplay

Hello,

First, the app looks awesome and I love all the features of podcast 2.0 chapters, transcript etc.
One issue, I can't find how to disable auto play?

Thank you for your help and for developing this great app!

Missing podcasts on Podfriend from Podcastindex.org

I can find The Farm Podcast (Steven Snider's one, not the other) on Podcastindex.org, but I can't find it through the Android APK app or the web app. I am also wondering about adding support for password protected RSS feeds. My general feedback so far is I really like the simplicity of the app and the cross platform subscription capabilities. It seems like the mission of the application is value for value and to keep things really paired down, being that there is no settings to be found. I likely am a pretty atypical user being that I run CalyxOS, don't keep a SIM in my phone, and thus prefer not to stream, but the features I would want to see are: support for custom RSS feed and password protected RSS feed, watch history/timestamp synced across devices, and download shows with auto delete.