Listen Up Group

I've made, finally, a Google Groups for Listen up, it's available here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/listen-up-users

Please use this group instead of this blog for comments.  Moderating this blog for spam is taking too much time and energy.

Anyone can join and posts by new users are moderated.  Accepted users will not be moderated.

Listen Up - gpodder.net Update 4

Just a quick update to say that after deploying to enough devices, the gpodder.net feed service is having some issues keeping up with the load. This has lead to listen up users not being able to get new episodes. I have written to the gpodder people and I'm awaiting a reply. I'm considering other alternatives at the moment.

Update The gpodder guys are generously setting up a new server to handle the new traffic. Hopefully, this should be fully resolved shortly.

Listen Up - gpodder.net Update 3

Fourth Saturday morning of work on Listen Up/Gpodder integration.

Completed:

• Pulling in subscriptions
• Pulling in episodes
• Adding on device subscriptions to the gpodder account
• Proper delta calculations, i.e., only download what has since been updated since the last connection to the service
• Anonymous mode (for those who don't want a gpodder account)
• Unsubscribe
• Properly handle disconnecting from account and re-connecting later
• Device id/integration with gpodder
• UI for credentials

Remaining:

• Discovery, will most likely do this tomorrow

Postponed

• Server state of episodes (read, unread, position, etc.).  I've encountered a couple of issues here and I've notified the gpodder developers.  Will have to wait a bit more, doing discovery in this release instead

I plan on dogfooding this for the next little bit.  I would like to release this on June 9th but it will probably be June 16th.

Updated:

Adding link to this feature request from gpodder.  Until this is added, I won't be doing server side state of episodes

Listen Up - gpodder.net Update 2

Third Saturday morning of work on Listen Up/Gpodder integration.

Completed:

• Pulling in subscriptions
• Pulling in episodes
• Adding on device subscriptions to the gpodder account
• Proper delta calculations, i.e., only download what has since been updated since the last connection to the service
• Anonymous mode (for those who don't want a gpodder account)
• Unsubscribe

Remaining:

• Server state of episodes (read, unread, position, etc.)
• Properly handle disconnecting from account and re-connecting later
• Need some work on gpodder device handling, doesn't feel right
• UI for credentials

Listen Up - gpodder.net Update

Quick update. I've been busy but last Saturday I started work on this integration and continued this morning.

Completed:

• Pulling in subscriptions
• Pulling in episodes
• Adding on device subscriptions to the gpodder account
• Proper delta calculations, i.e., only download what has since been updated since the last connection to the service

Remaining:

• Anonymous mode (for those who don't want a gpodder account)
• Server state of episodes (read, unread, position, etc.) 
• Unsubscribe 
• Properly handle disconnecting from account and re-connecting later
• Need some work on gpodder devices handling, doesn't feel right

Probably not for next version but will definitely do:

• Search/Discovery/Recommendations using gpodder
• Use their podcast image service for getting feed images.  This works without it but gpodder re-sizes the image on their server, saving precious milliamps on the device.

Also, I'm aware that gpodder offers an account provider for Android but decided not to use it for two reasons.  The first is that I'm worried about confusing some users, the other is that I can remove three privileges from the existing permission set of listen up, I couldn't resist.

A special thank you to +J.R. Freeman for suggesting gpodder.net in the first place.

Google Reader Retirement

To answer everyone since I've already had a dozen or so inquiries. I don't know yet what I'll use to replace Google Reader in Listen Up now that it's being retired. Considering Listen Up has made about $175 thus far, that's before Google's cut and only because one user generously paid $51 for his copy, it will need to be a free solution. Sigh, I'm going to miss Google Reader.