Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

i just want to say a big thank you to the developer of this program.. am using it right now and it just works.. i listen to a lots of podcasts and always felt the traditional media players aren't built for listening to audio books or podcast. this thing really rock blog.. what you do goes a long way in improving our lives (at least mine) in many ways you cant imagine .. thanks a bunch and pick up the good work

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

There is no FILE menu in the GUI that I have been able to locate.
There is Open, Bookmarks, Settings (lock progress bar?) Donate, About & Quit.
There is a folder icon that appears to be the same function as "open".
I am using 0.2-5 and with this version:
1. you cannot queue files,
2. the bookmarks tab is empty till you start a file that you have bookmarked (so you cannot start a file from it),
3. starts up with no file loaded so you have to navigate to the file.

I am keen to experience the joy that others are having with the latest version but so far these features don't lift me there.
Perhaps there is a more recent version?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

We're speaking of the SVN version. It hasn't been fully tested, and no one is confident in its stability.

After it has been tested and found stable, another deb will be built and released, and you'll have your new features.

If you want to try out the non-blessed code, follow these instructions.
-> install subversion from the extras repository.
-> goto the console and create a subfolder under home called "panucci"
-> execute the following svn command
-> start panucci using this command (from home)
-> if you want to make a shortcut, point it to ~/panucci/bin/panucci

Keep in mind that using this version comes with risks. You may loose all your bookmarks, for instance. I'm sure any bug reports you might file would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Panucci is so good. :) I've been using it as my default player for gpodder for weeks now.. and I'm kicking myself for not using it sooner.

Thanks again! :)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but when I finally got around to trying to install this SVN version of Panucci I did not have much luck. In fact none. "svn not found" or some such. I get tired of typing that long line [svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/panucci/trunk panucci] over and over so I gave up. I recall in DOS you could just hit F3 and the line would be repeated. Is there anything like that in xterminal? As you can easily see, this is not my area of expertise. Also... any idea when this SVN version will be released?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

pushing "up" on the d-pad will cycle through your command history.

"svn not found" would indicate that you did not take the first step, "-> install subversion from the extras repository", in my post above.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I suppose the bigger issue is, any rough idea of when the next release will be packaged up and tossed at the maemo extras like a big pie in the face that we can slurp off with a smile? (Yeah.. weird cartoony mood today.) heheheh

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Thanks. I wasn't sure what "subversion" was but now I know that it is a program called SVN. I installed that and everything seemed to work fine. I got a message "checked out version 73".
However when I tried to start Panucci, I got an error message:

~ $ panucci/bin/panucci
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "panucci/bin/panucci", line 63, in <module>
from panucci import util
ImportError: cannot import name util

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

should do the trick (i.e. your current working directory has to be the panucci folder)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Same error message running from the panucci directory.
I am running my N800 from the OS cloned on the sd card so I thought i'd try it from the the flash or whatever you call the internal memory. Panucci started up OK from there but it would not play anything. No matter what I selected, nothing appeared in the window.
I have not upgraded either OS to diablo, so this may be the problem. I know I'll lose the ability to boot from SD if I upgrade and finding the instructions to set everything up again is a pain, so I have just avoided it. I guess if I want to listen to audiobooks on the N800 this is what I have to do.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Are you running chinook or OS2007 then? Have you installed all dependencies that are listed on the website?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

anything that has this much trouble installing isn't worth it. another example proving my point about open source software. get an ipod touch or a creative zev v to listen to audio books.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I am using chinook. I will check the dependencies.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

That's a great idea. You should definitely do that.

This thread has been about how to get the development version running, not how to install the app. Installing the app is easy as any other in the extras repository.

And, it would be as much trouble to get the development version of any software running. Even more trouble for those apps that must be compiled.

Thanks for pooping on our thread without reading or understanding it first.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I have been looking all over the place and have to admit defeat. I cannot find a list of dependencies. If you could point me the way it would be appreciated.
Sorry to be making such a meal out of this but I am very interested in this project. I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and a getting a good player for the N800 is a big deal to me.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

The dependencies are not easy to find, I admit (have to look at the package description in the repository):

python2.5, python2.5-gtk2, python2.5-gstreamer, python2.5-dbus, python2.5-hildon

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

To put it short: python2.5-runtime

Installing this meta-package should install all the mentioned dependencies.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I installed something called "Python development environment" from Maemo downloads and though it is described as a meta package it did not seem to install the required dependencies (checked in application manager). The only things listed as python related are
python 2.5 feedparser
python 2.5 pyinotify
Obviously I am either not installing the right package or not using the right program to check dependencies. Probably both. Should I be using something called "Package View" to check for the presences of dependencies? Where is Python2.5-runtime? Thanks again for the help.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Python development environment is not the right package, unfortunately.
python2.5-runtime is not visible in the application manager by default.

The easiest way to get it installed would be to install another application that lists python2.5-runtime as a dependency. If Panucci doesn't, then I'd consider that a bug in the Panucci packaging. MediaBox is an application that lists python2.5-runtime as dependency, for instance.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I have Media Box installed, so I should have all the necessary dependencies. I seem to have exhausted my options so I am officially Giving Up®. I will wait for the official release. Thanks for the help, but I think there is too large a gap (canyon?) in my knowledge in this particular area.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Panucci problem or gPodder problem, I don't know: When I try to play a podcast in gPodder, Panucci pops up for a moment, then disappears, and nothing plays. I've re-installed both. Problem persists.

I'm running Diablo. Everything worked fine until a couple days ago.

(I'm having the problem on my mmc-based OS. The device-based OS works fine. Could installing flite or maemo-mapper have caused the problem?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I sure do like this app combo. Thanks!

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Can you please try running gPodder in your "X Terminal" (in Utilities), like this:

This should (hopefully) give you some output on what's wrong. Please also check if your disk is full. If you don't mind removing all your bookmarks/resume points, try removing/renaming the file ".rmp-bookmarks" in "/home/user/" (rename and try to see if this is causing problems). The file ".rmp-bookmarks" is used by Panucci to store information about resume points and bookmarks.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Thanks for getting back to me on your great program (and my problem therewith). Renaming ".rmp-bookmarks" did not correct the problem. The disk is not full. Here's what "gpodder --verbose --maemo" got me:

$ gpodder --verbose --maemo
[ 1.711] Using ISO-8859-15 as encoding. If this
[ 1.712] is incorrect, please set your $LANG variable.
[ 2.268] (gPodderLib) Creating gPodderLib()
[ 2.637] (ConverterCollection) Could not find "oggdec", ".ogg" files cannot be converted.
[ 2.647] (tagupdate) eyed3 not found -- tag update disabled
[ 2.742] (gpodder.sync) Could not find gpod
[ 2.747] (gpodder.sync) Could not find pymtp.
[ 2.752] (gpodder.sync) Could not find pymad
[ 2.810] (gpodder.sync) Could not find eyeD3
[ 2.937] Patching feedparser module... (mapContentType bugfix)
[ 4.134] Cannot find pynotify. Please install the python-notify package.
[ 4.135] Notification bubbles have been disabled.
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/SimpleGladeApp.py:337: GtkWarning: Mixing deprecated and non-deprecated GtkToolbar API is not allowed
return gtk.glade.XML(self.glade_path, root, domain)
[ 6.763] (gPodder) I cannot set has-tooltip/query-tooltip (need at least PyGTK 2.12)
[ 8.440] (podcastChannel) Returning TreeModel for http://www.democracynow.org/podcast.xml
[ 8.651] (gPodder) auto_update_procedure() got called
[ 10.611] start reader
[ 10.647] end reader (benchmark: 0.0364 seconds)
[ 10.909] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...009-0129-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)
[ 10.996] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...009-0127-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)
[ 11.268] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...009-0113-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)


... [I deleted a bunch of these that were all about the same]

[ 65.261] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...008-1107-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)
[ 65.577] (podcastChannel) Episode missing: http://media.libsyn.com/media/democr...008-1103-1.mp3 (before drawing an icon)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/panucci", line 27, in <module>
panucci.run(filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/panucci/panucci.py", line 968, in run
m = GTK_Main(bus_name, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/panucci/panucci.py", line 249, in __init__
self.make_main_window()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/panucci/panucci.py", line 425, in make_main_window
self.volume = gtk.VolumeButton()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'VolumeButton'
[ 863.869] (Storage) Optimizing database for faster startup.
Exception exceptions.TypeError: TypeError("'NoneType' object is not callable",) in <bound method Popen.__del__ of <subprocess.Popen object at 0x41941050>> ignored
~ $



Any thoughts? It looked to me (and I have no idea what any of this means) like I needed to get pyGTK or pynotify or python-notify. I couldn't find any of those in the Gronmayer repositories. So I installed python2.5sqlite2 (figuring, what the hell!), but my panucci problem persists.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Blame it on the ugly packager (that'd be me :). Make sure python2.5-hildon is installed. After that, it should work :)

I didn't see python2.5-hildon in installed or installlable apps, even though I have the proper catalogues, even in red pill mode. So I guessed and entered

/home/user # apt-get install python2.5-hildon

but it didn't help. Here's what I got:

/home/user # apt-get install python2.5-hildon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python2.5-hildon is already the newest version.
python2.5-hildon set to manual installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
initfs-flasher libspeex1 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-speex
kernel-diablo-flasher libepeg0 python-dateutil flash-and-reboot
libimlib2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
/home/user #

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Hmm, strange. I assume you have the latest panucci package version from Maemo Extras, right? Try the following in xterm:

Does this fail?

If so, try this (a workaround, ideally install the corresponding "osso-software-version-XXXX" package for your tablet - rx34, rx44 or rx44):

This is how we detect we're running on Maemo. Maemo unfortunately does not provide lsb_release. I've filed a bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4078

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Thanks, thp!

worked!

One other thing I thought of that might be helpful. I noticed that each time I un- and re-installed gPodder and panucci, it would return with panucci filled in as the player and with all my Episodes listed. Which means I was never doing a clean install.

It turns out I don't need a clean install since everything works again (hooray!), but where is that stuff stored if I wanted to do a clean install? It returned even after I had deleted the file ".rmp-bookmarks" and renamed /media/mmc2/gpodder.

Thanks again!!

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

The gPodder config is in ~/.config/gpodder (i.e. /home/user/.config/gpodder). In there, there should be two or three files:

* channels.opml (a list of your subscriptions, easily transferrable)
* database.sqlite (information about subscriptions, episodes, etc...)
* gpodder.conf (configuration file, like which media player is set, ...)

If you delete gpodder.conf, the configuration will be reset, and if you delete database.sqlite, episode information and subscription information will be deleted. channels.opml is only used to restore the subscription list in case of problems and is always updated, so that every user has the freedom to ditch gPodder and use some other application that supports importing OPML files :)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I think to really make Panucci a better podcast player is to make it play podcast straight from the gpodder "database.db". Panucci will be able to play all downloaded podcast without switching app. At the same time it could update the database and let gpodder know that not to delete a podcast and entry xyz was played.

I cannot even play the gpodder generated playlist. When driving I like to keep my eyes on the road, fiddling with gpodder to play the next podcast force me to use the build in player.

Thanks

Panucci "open file" dialog
 

I have a directory with a bunch of mp3 files. When I try to
use Panucci to open a file there, it doesn't display the filename,
but instead apparently the initial part of its MP3 tag.
Since it only shows the first ~20 characters ("The blah blah blah
show...") there's no way to tell one file from another.

There's two information lines, and both of them show the same
truncated string.

You should either scroll the whole MP3 tag, or better yet,
scroll the whole filename on the first line, and the whole
MP3 tag contents on the second line. Something like that.

Thanks!

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I would like to second the idea in the above quote, it would make it much easier to know which ones to delete, and approach perfection for the way I listen to podcasts.

Panucci has become one of my 'most used' apps. Because a passing truck or bus can render a speech podcast temporarily un-hearable, I was using CLI mplayer for access to the 10-second jumps with the D-pad, so Panucci's finger-friendly UI and the large-sized progress bar, (in combination/ addition to the 10-second jumps), seemed like someone was reading my mind. I had tried most -- if not all -- other standard repository N8x0 players for commute-type podcast listening, (which are admittedly not made for podcast style listening), but I think Panucci "nailed it," because of the philosophy of doing one single thing very well.

Thanks much,


Joe

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Yep, this is a known feature request: https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/ind...=769&atid=2879

Re: Panucci "open file" dialog
 

Please see this (related?) feature request:

https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/ind...=769&atid=2879

Or file a new one:

https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?at...69&func=browse

Thanks!

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I used Panucci for the first time today. Its a good app, however, I have a couple of suggestions for it. My goal is to retire my mp3 player for commuting in favor of an all-in-one device, the NIT with GPS and podcasts all right there on my dash. I have a relatively long commute 1-2 hrs, and would like to see the following features easily accessible for car use:

* Skip to next/previous track
* Simplified file selection (perhaps in the area where the podcast name/icon is, there is a lot of dead space there)

The bookmark feature is pretty cool, next I would like to try it with one of the podiobooks I have waiting.

Thanks for this cool app...
--vr

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Is it possible to make panucci use a2dp sound?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Panucci uses GStreamer for playing back audio. I don't know how sound output works for A2DP. I have seen that MPlayer has a special patch/driver for getting A2DP to work, but as I have not tried it myself, I can't say for sure. Your best bet probably is to try it out yourself. Good luck. Please post your findings here afterwards so other users have an easier time doing the same thing.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Thank for answer.
Is it possible to make configuration parameter for panucci to use gst bluetooth plugin

gst-inspect bluetooth
Plugin Details:
Name: bluetooth
Description: Bluetooth plugin library
Filename: /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstbluetooth.so
Version: 3.28
License: LGPL
Source module: bluez-utils
Binary package: BlueZ
Origin URL: http://www.bluez.org/

rtpsbcpay: RTP packet payloader
a2dpsink: Bluetooth A2DP sink
avdtpsink: Bluetooth AVDTP sink
sbcparse: Bluetooth SBC parser
sbcdec: Bluetooth SBC decoder
sbcenc: Bluetooth SBC encoder
bluetooth type: sbc

7 features:
+-- 6 elements
+-- 1 types

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Do anybody know how to pause panucci from command line?
What exactly dbus-send should I use to toggle pause/play?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

This will only work for Panucci v0.3 or later, the previous versions didn't have a playPause dbus method. For a full listing of d-bus methods see src/panucci/dbusinterface.py.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Hi,
I updated panucci this morning, and it seems broken. When I try and launch it from gpodder, or from the terminal, it hangs, and there is a blank notifier popup.

Running it in the terminal, and killing it with Ctrl+C after boredom sets in yields the following stack trace, which doesn't look significant:

I've tried removing/reinstalling, but no improvement. Any idea what is wrong? As others have said, it is a killer app for me, and this morning, I missed out on listening to SDR News ;-(

fnord