mikerogers0/podcast-app

A stress free podcast app - No longer maintained.

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podcast-app's Issues

PlayerView template needs to be all of player

I was a pleb at some point and split it into the index.html and some other bit.

Model function name cleanup

Again, 4am silly me came up with some weird names. Here is the convention I'm going to try and move to / stick to, example:
PodcastList.getSubscribed() - currently returns a list, PodcastList.getByFeedURL returns a single entry.

I'm going to try and do:
get - Only 1 models will be returned.
find - Multiple models returned.

Player buttons

Add buttons to the player so it can be play, speed up and paused from a central point.

Offline Support

http://caniuse.com/#feat=offline-apps - We should add an app cache file to make our app work amazingly fast offline.

add feed page change to be a popout input field and button

Flash fallback for shit browsers like IE & Firefox

This is now fixed using mediaelement.

It has to refresh the flash / mediaelement element object every time a user presses play which sucks, but beats a shit experience.

Multi Lingual Support

gpodder API support

http://wiki.gpodder.org/wiki/Web_Services

Reduce ram usage.

The ram usage is pretty high (100mb+). I'm going to work on a garbage collector and image compressor to try and get it down a bit.

[Android] Sometimes podcasts play after a call when paused

Push and Pull to dropbox needs to use metadata

It's a little inefficient when it reads directories right now.

Phonegap Implementation

When a user navigates to podcast page, download that feed

Brain dump

Few things came to mind while using the app today, thought i'd dump them here and we can discuss.

I really like that it's browser based and i think we could make much more use of 'the web' if we host data in a cloud server or something, rather than letting users dropbox sync.

To use either/or, you would need to be connected to the internet. Even if we dont charge I think we'll be able to offer a much better app/service if when it comes to it, we make a basic website for registering, and just host it as a RESTful API.

means we could looks at socket stuff, we could look at pushing updates, we could even look at things like widgets for 'add this podcast to you EARJIZZ account', or chrome plugins.

We can still put a lot of offline support in, and we can make sure to put in full access to add/remove/edit data, and delete account and stuff.

Not relying on another service. dropbox goes down/under, fucked.

Wipe Data should also remove stuff from dropbox

Change <title> based on what playing etc

Change template filenames to template.html.erb

This'll reflect the template engine more accurately.

Only download when battery is charging on mobile devices

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.navigator.battery - Kinda an out there idea, but lets like only download new mp3s and check feeds when people are charging / in good network.

Support import from opml

opml is the format google reader exports it's feeds to. It could be cool to let people add from these.

Cache MP3 files

We can use the Filesystem & FileWriter API ( http://caniuse.com/#feat=filesystem / http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.2.0/phonegap_file_file.md.html#FileEntry / http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/ ) to cache mp3 files in Chrome & PhoneGaps apps.

Support in IE/FF/Safari kinda sucks, but we can use a polyfill like http://ericbidelman.tumblr.com/post/21649963613/idb-filesystem-js-bringing-the-html5-filesystem-api for shitty browsers.

Find podcasts by name

We should be able to do this via the feed api.

Cron to check for new feeds

Something to delete old podcasts episodes, update feed info and clear old podcasts a user isn't subscribed to.

jPlayer

Went to change some of the styles of the audioplayer, noticed we're using the default browser player, that we cant style/do anything to.

Will look into implementing this soon, and getting it styled, + using the webfont logos i found (have them in pngs if the webfont ends up looking too shit)

http://www.jplayer.org/download/

Check new episodes are defiantly podcasts

Rearrange queue

onePage branch

Hey man. 4am coding. 5% battery. commiting for the night.

Started doing some LESS and messing around with layout/shit for reals.

will play around tomorrow getting the elements showing on all pages and such, but im too tired now, just checked into github for safety :)

Caching file queue

Caching mp3 files in parallel is slow, instead set up a queuing system.

Model attributes cleanup

I wacked in a few weird variable names when I was coding when sleepy, I might swap out:
episode.feedUrlEncoded > episode.slug
podcast.feedUrlEncoded > podcast.slug

When item finishes, play next in queue

Favicon

I'm thinking it changes as to whats happening within the app. Not annoyingly mind.

Add feed - renamed to find by feed

Podcast settings

If it should autoqueue all new episodes or just the most recent since the last visit.