Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I use the lastest version of panucci (0.9). there are small cuts each time I lock the N900 or when I switch to an other application.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I am trying to find options or settings to do some things I thought were available in Pannucci.

I use gPodder to get my podcasts. How do I find and listen to all podcasts: by podcast title or by date?
....I currently create an "allpods.m3u" via a script. Is there a better way?

How do I delete podcasts (from disk and from gPodder) after listening to them?

How do I jump to "newshour" podcasts without fast-forwarding through about half of my podcasts, marking them as "read"?

Can I listen to podcasts at 2x speed?


Regarding gPodder: opening gPodder is quite "messy". I appreciate that gPodder is a bit "heavy" but I'm thinking that if you threw up a small bitmap that didn't dissapear/reappear/disappear/reappear the loading might appear more seamless.

Thanks, These are great programs!

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Yes, I've noticed that. Sometimes when launching gPodder, I see an initial screen but then it switches to the task switcher. I think this started with the same recent update which brought the yellow notifications for new episodes.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Not yet. Currently, the preferred media player by the gPodder project is the build-in media player, as we now have great resume and position tracking support since version 2.8.

There's a "Delete episodes" button in the gPodder main window and in the "All episodes" window. You can also delete episodes one-by-one by long-pressing on them and choosing "Delete" in gPodder.

Use Media Player and select the episode from gPodder's "All episodes" view.

Not yet. That depends on the availability of a time stretching module in GStreamer, and support for it in either Panucci (more likely) or Media Player (less likely, because MAFW is complicated).

Actually, the black window that appears right after you click on the icon is just a fake window from the window manager to make the startup feel faster. What you see is that gPodder takes too long to show its initial window, which makes the window manager hide the fake window again (you can test this by clicking on the task switcher button quickly when the first window appears - you'll see that the window isn't visible in the list of open tasks, because it is not there yet).

There's nothing an app developer can do except make application startup faster, so that the fake window is still visible when the main window is first shown. My time is limited, so right now, I'm spending more time on improving the user experience and fixing bugs and after that, I might have a look at optimizing startup time (but anyone is welcome to jump in and submit patches - gPodder is an open source project!).

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Thanks.

I'm listening over Bluetooth 99% of the time. There seems to be a bug with the stack, as every time a call or email notification comes in, and playback stops, it never resumes. {at least not for 15 minutes - I've waited this long} So I need to kill Media Player (or Panucci) - re-open it - and find my place. Panucci really wins here!

I've been deleting podcasts through gPodder, but this is "sub-optimal" Some podcasts {like TWIT} are 90-120 minutes, "60-Second Science" episodes go by MUCH more often :-) It would be nice if I didn't need to flip back and forth between the two apps. If Panucci could delete files {in a way that "worked" with gPodder} I'd be set!!! :-)


Thanks for the software - Panucci and gPodder are the main apps (along with gnumeric and Mail for Exchange) that make me happy with my N900.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I have very similar problems. I reported a bug for this. But I got very confused because of several other problems using my headset. If you're interested and can confirm several problems you're invited to contribute: Bug #10815

I fixed the bug for me by buing a new car stereo. It works fine using panucci and calls (the most of the time) - but sometimes my dialog partner is still unable to hear me. It's very annoing because I must hang up the call, turn off my radio and turn it on again to get a new bluetooth connection. I have resigned because I guess I can't do more than reporting my own observations.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I have the same problem of no time count, plus none of the fwd/rev buttons don't work - on ogg files only. I have ogg-support 0.9 and panucci 0.3-7 installed. I tried reinstalling both to no avail.
If I run panucci from the command line, load another ogg file and try to fast fwd/rev I get the following.

Any ideas?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I'm running version 0.9 and it doesn't automatically play the next track in the playlist.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I am experiencing the same issue, vote for the bug here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11122

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

how to empty the playlist in panucci?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Same here, the player is useless.
Bug report was opened on August, last commit in July, I guess Panucci is not actively developed.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

That's true. There's nobody actively working on Panucci at the moment. gPodder users are advised to use the built-in Media Player, which now has (in combination with gPodder) resuming support.

If somebody wants to take over development of Panucci, please drop me a line or join #gpodder on Freenode :)

The 0.9 branch isn't stable, so even if you want to use Panucci, please use 0.3.x. Thanks!

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

That's very sad. :( Panucci is at the moment still the best audio player for podcasts. I'm using 0.3.x with all his faults in my car only because 0.9 has no support for Bluetooth buttons.

I hope somebody will integrate the support for play/pause and to jump several seconds per press via Bluetooth again to Panucci 0.9 in the future.

Using the build in Media Player is a pain. If I press and hold the Button at my car stereo to rewind several seconds, mostly it rewinds about a minute and not only some seconds. Sometimes it is still rewinding if I have already released the Button. And if I press it to short the podcast is back at the beginning and I don't know how far I must move this small bar at the N900 touchscreen to get back to the point it has stopped. AWFUL!

Panucci has clearly the better solution to rewind in fixed steps if you simply haven't understand the last sentence.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

My feelings exactly.

Does anyone know how hard it would be to make the 'auto-play on headset' function work with ordinary headphones and not just headsets? I'm no developer but I'd love to implement this on my version if it was just a case of replacing some code in a system file if some kind soul could point me in the the right direction.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Thinking out loud: What if someone were to come up with a car-friendly UI that remote controls the built-in media player?

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Hmm... this sounds interesting. :) But I guess the integration wouldn't be easy regarding the Bluetooth support. How to avoid that the built-in Media Player reacts at the Bluetooth commands from the Car-Stereo?

It should be a background daemon without UI that intercept the "rewind" and "forward" signal and send's commands to the Media Player to rewind or forward only 10 seconds. Hmm... :rolleyes:

The question is, is it easier to migrate the bluetooth code from panucci 0.3.17 to the current version or to manipulate the built-in player using a small daemon in the background?

Okay, if this is possible only a Menu at gPodder would be missing to reopen the last played track.
Or has anybody else still a good reason to use Panucci? Anything the built-in media player is unable to do? :confused:

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Oh you are just after the Bluetooth control? That should not be too hard to forward-port (I'm not saying that I'm going to do it). Do YOU want to do it? I'll happily (very happily in fact!) guide you through the process if you don't know how where to start, and chances are that you might learn something along the way :)

I thought the remaining reason why people used Panucci were the bigger UI elements compared to the built-in Media Player. Talk about not knowing your user base ;)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

YES! :D Otherwise I haven't found any lack of features I would miss or other bugs. If the playlist stuff is still to faulty and not fixable we could remove it completly and use it only as a normal player. (a player that knows what track was played the last time and where it has stopped)

I tried already my luck early September this year. ;) Your progress was not fast enought for me and I thought I have only to compare and to integrate the removed code to the right places to create my own hack and provide it here for others as soon as I have finished my work.
I found your Bluetooth code at the old version and tried to integrate the code to the new version. But I'm a .NET Programmer and I have only rudimentary python knowledge. I know PyQt and the Signal and Slots concept from Qt4. But I guess the GTK stuff was to different or I have overseen the salient point. But I must say I gave up after a half day without any kind of success and thought I should better wait for the professional Panucci artist. ;)

Thanks a lot for your offer! :)

I guess I should give it a new try. Before Christmas I'm very busy. (and I still need some gifts) But as soon as I find some spare time I will look again into your code and will ask where my problems lie.

The bigger Buttons are nice, but they are not the unique power feature. ;)
Thanks for your hard work so far.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

The reason why I am using Panucci is because it can play my m4a-podcasts which the original media player isn't able to play.

Here is the bug report I opened 1 year ago. Still not fixed, so won't be fixed. https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6640

I wonder why other people don't seem to have problems with their (video-)podcasts...

Maybe you can point me and Helmuth into the right direction to get bluetooth headset support back.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

http://www.en.kolobok.us/smiles/standart/dance3.gif Eureka! http://www.en.kolobok.us/smiles/standart/dance3.gif

I guess I have managed to integrate the Bluetooth stuff from panucci 0.3.17 into the newest release (panucci 0.9-alpha1)

I know now my mistake from early September. It was to silly. So please, don't ask! :o

It's working here with a small headset. I'll test it tomorrow again with my car stereo but I'm very confident so far.

I'm not sure if Thomas would agree how I have tinkered the code into his blessed Application. (I'm very unsure with all this GTK and Python stuff - so please forgive me if it's to ugly done - don't forget, I normally use .NET at Windows machines)

How to install?

• Ensure you have already installed panucci 0.9-alpha1 from Extra Devel
  
• Take the 2 *.py files from the ZIP File in the attachment and move them to /opt/panucci/lib/panucci (and overwrite the existing files) - you must have root privileges to overwrite those files!

Thats it. If it isn't anymore working try to start panucci from the command line and watch out for errors.

Please uninstall panucci and reinstall it from extras or extra-devel if you want to revert the modifications.

If you don't know how to follow the install steps above I'm sorry. I don't want to break your device. And I'm afraid that I'm probably unable to help if something gone wrong and your knowledge is to weak. If you're able to follow the upper instructions without problems the whole thing should be very sure. :)
So please be patient and let test this modification first some skilled and brave people. If everything is working without additional problems and Bugs I will post more detailed instructions. But I want to wait for some positive feedback first. :)

Edit: Oh, and I still need a good (perfect!) christmas gift for my girlfriend. Perhaps someone could help now me with my problem. :D

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Hi Helmuth,

so far it seems to work for Panucci but I have the problem that the internal player also reacts on the dbus messages. The result is that both players are started or stopped and only the internal player is audible. (btw happens also when the internal player is closed and only the media home applet is there).

Not sure if there is anything we can do about this - can dbus messages be "consumed" like events in an UI?

Another problem I had this morning is that Panucci often is not able to resume m4a-files. After pressing the play-button it freezes and hildon tells me that the application is no longer reacting... but that is another story.

Anyway, thanks for your efforts so far. :)

And a hint for your girlfriends gift: Ask her what she wants for Christmas. So your gift can't be wrong and she still has the anticipation. (komisches Wort für Vorfreude, aber angeblich heißt das so :) )

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I have removed the media player widget several month ago from my desktop because of this kind of bugs. I had some moments when I finished a call my media player began playing a random song or a part of my audio book. After a embarrassing moment (Ken Follett "The Pillars of the Earth" has some ambiguous moments - not funny at work!) I removed this widget completly from my desktop. And this was after the bug was marked as Fixed at the bugtracker.

I must admit... I have no idea. :o
But if this is possible, how should we ensure that Panucci is the first application that is reading and consuming this signal? :confused:

I would consider to remove this ******* **** **** (lovely) Media Player Widget from the Desktop and test it again. (I guess I need a Smiley with a halo! :D)

I'm afraid that this could be releated to the library Panucci is using. In this case there are not much possibilities...

Perhaps simply don't resume m4a files could be a solution? :confused:

I guess wo could modify Panucci again. If Panucci should resume the m4a playback, it is simply beginning again at the start of the file and after a second it is seeking back to the last position. Hmm... is something like this imaginable for you?

But I can already hear now the guys complaining about the sluggish beginning while resuming a m4a file. Hmm... I don't know.

And I have to look into how this could work. I'm still a noob at this kind of stuff.

No problem. The most of the work has thp already done. Without his work at Panucci 0.3.17 this wouldn't be possible for me to integrate into to the new branch.

I've already asked. I'm asking since months. But all I get back is: "surprise me", "I don't want anything" (YES, sure!) or "I have everything I want - I have you" - sooo, this kind of questions are not helpful. :( A exact statement (including ordering number and where I could get it) would be great! :D But I guess this year my own wish wouldn't come true. (again)

[german Tag]
Mach Dir keine Gedanken. Ich sitze hier auch mit nem Wörterbuch im 2. Tab und er spuckte mir für anticipation auch vorfreude aus. ;) Wer weiss schon ob jeder versteht was ich hier zusammentippe? :D
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Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Thanks for your proposal but after at bit of meditation about the problem I think I will try a different solution.

In devel-extras is a media player called NecroPlayer which is using Phonon (I guess it uses GStreamer as a backend) and when I open a m4a file with this player I only get audio and no video. This seems the way for me to go as I only have audio-podcasts where the video part is nice to have but not necessary.

So I think I should pimp my GStreamer skills and find out how to get this behaviour in Panucci. (Thomas, any idea maybe?)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Anyone else have an issue with this bug?

Playlist not playing files in sequence?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Panucci is currently lacking a maintainer, so if anyone wants to step up, please feel free to contact me :)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I would be interested in trying. I have next to no coding experience, other than a small bit at school. I little bit of bash scripting is most of what I know. What language is it coded in?

edit: the reason I ask is because at garage.maemo the newest version is 0.4 which is old, so things may have changed.

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/panucci/

...
found this: http://repo.or.cz/w/panucci.git ... I guess I need to brush up on some git.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

After reading through a decent portion of the code... truthfully I think this is beyond me, and moreover beyond the time I have to spend learning at this point in time. I would love to help out with this, as it is one of my favourite programs on maemo, but I dont think I would be able to assist in a decent timeframe.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I don't own a n900 but i just tried panucci git on my stationary and it does not switch to the next file which seems to be a bug. If noone else fixes It i'll do it.

I was waiting for n9 but with the current ms chill at the top of nokia that may take a while so i'm willing to fix panucci git and release a 1.0 for Maemo even though I don't own one myself. Others have to test so it works.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I've attached a patch to the bug report that fixes this issue. If anyone has more bugs just let me know. Panucci's code is very pretty and it's a waste to stop now when 1.0 is so close.

https://bugs.maemo.org/attachment.cgi?id=3288

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Ok, thp told me to set up my own git repo and continue development there so i did.
https://github.com/xerxes2/panucci

This is not a fork of Panucci just evolution. :) As I don't own a n900 thp will continue to release packages for it. Last commit before I started was seven months and three days ago so I guess most people think that the project is dead but now it's alive again. My plan is to fix what's already exists for 1.0 and possibly add some minor improvements. So if you have patches just give them to me and I'll commit them, if they're good.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Can you give me a patch for my repo for this?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Hey, Thanks a lot. Please don't forget the Bluetooth tinkering from my Post. :) It's on heavy usage every workday. ;)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

I'm wondering the same thing. Is it only possible to delete files one by one?

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Yes just give me a patch and I'll commit it.

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Ah, you've already seen it. Thanks! :)
I guess I was to slow while typing my answer... :rolleyes:

Mh, I don't know what you mean. Should I try to upload it myself on your repo at git? (I'm living in a Windows world, sorry, please take my hand and help me to walk across the road) :D

I've added the changed *.py Files in a attachment at my Post. Do you need something else? Feel free to ask. I will try to give my best. :)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Hmm, can you try with gst-launch and see what cpu usage you get with that?

gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 uri='file:///path/to/file.mp3'

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Yeah I'll need a patch for my repo.

1. git clone git@github.com:xerxes2/panucci.git
2. Make your changes
3. git diff HEAD > panucci_bluetooth.patch

And give me that patch.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Hmm... ooookay. I made the changes using a Texteditor at a Windows Machine and stored the Files in a Linux compatible format. And after a lot of swearing it finally worked. :D

Mh, I created now a account at the git hub page. But I'm feeling a little bit lost...

What exactly have I now to do?

Am I able to edit or upload the files there and compare it with the current source on the webpage? I'm currently on the go and have only my N900 with me... or have I to install a Software? My N900 is my only Linux Device I own... :confused:

Sorry, I have to deal with noobs every day. In this world I'm now myself a noob. ;)

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

Well you don't need an account on github for making a patch. Just follow my three steps above. I guess you have git on your n900 so you should be able to do it all on it without another computer. Otherwise do it later it's no rush. You'll find me here or in #gpodder@freenode.

Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player
 

All files must be 7-bit us-ascii or utf8. I don't know what "linux compatible format" are"! :p