Why another podcast player?
There are quite a lot of media players for the openmoko platform but neither of them really had everything I wanted.
Furthermore, a media player is actually nothing more than an mplayer frontend, so it is quite easy to implement.
The key usage assumptions for this media player are:
- it must be finger-friendly
- it is mainly used for listening to podcasts
- the audio files are downloaded by a separate program
- audio files can be deleted using the player
- audio files are short (some minutes) and are normally deleted after listening
- the player can be paused, skipped forward and backwards and so on
Download and installation
Just install the ipkg and perhaps put your preferred podcast directory into the file /usr/bin/podcastplayer (the default ist /home/root/).
How you can help
Use the software, report bugs and feature requests, suggest a good name and perhaps do some artwork (icons etc).