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 write one.
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 ipk and perhaps put your preferred podcast directory into the file /usr/share/applications/podcat.desktop (replace "/home/root/" in the line "Exec=/usr/bin/podcat /home/root/").
Changes in Version 2.0
- scrollbar shows position in file and allows to directly change position
- less buttons (more space for filenames) but same functionality (replaced by scrollbar)
- stabler mplayer interface
- sorted filenames / ID3 tags