Re: Car Cast: feedback 6-Oct-2010
Bob Herrmann
The problem is in their feed/subscription they always have the intro as the first podcast.
Car Cast looks at the feed, sees the first entry and says, oh - I've already seen this. And it stops processing the feed.
So the way carcast is currently written you will not ever get anything new after the first time you download.
So there are three choices
- we can do nothing, and you will be unhappy (you can always clear the history everyday, and keep max downloads at two... although you will always
re download the intro....)
- I can change carcast in some way.... I will have to think about that
- another developer can suggest something clever....
-bob
On 10/06/2010 11:04 AM, Alan Gordon wrote:
> Here's the feed. http://feeds.feedburner.com/dailyaudiobible
>
> "Bob Herrmann"<b...@jadn.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok. Could be that the feed uses the same name for each podcast (in the XML), that's why I wanted to know the name of the feed (or subscription.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bob
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Alan Gordon<ago...@btpa1.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think I found the problem. I had to delete the download history to get the next one. I'll make sure this works Tomorrow.
>>>
>>> "Bob Herrmann"<b...@jadn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you send me the name of the podcast and/or its url?
>>>>
>>>> On 10/06/2010 07:54 AM, Alan Gordon wrote:
>>>>> I must be missing somthing. I down loaded car cast 2 days ago. Set up w subscription to a pod cast. It downloaded it fine. Since then when I try and download it says no new podcasts. I know the site puts up a new one each day.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my Android phone
>
>
> Sent from my Android phone
Bob Herrmann
Hi Chris.
Thanks for sending feedback. How should car cast determine that you have listened to a podcast? When should it do the delete? Should there be a
"Delete any podcast I've listen to more than 10% of page?" or should there be a "Checkbox on the player" which you click to indicate you are "done"
with the podcast? How do you envision this working?
Thanks!!
-bob
On 10/06/2010 10:19 PM, Chris Caswell wrote:
> feature request (setting to)
> * delete podcasts already listened to
> * automatically, every day or so, trigger download new podcasts
>
> If possible, thanks!
>
Bob Herrmann
What do the other devs think about this? Car Cast has about 5k users. This 1 user could use some extra logic (since a fixed intro is always in front
of his feed's content), do we add this extra logic for just him?
Thanks
-bob
On 10/08/2010 08:51 AM, ago...@btpa1.com wrote:
> thanks for your response. I don't mind deleting history for not till
> you see if you can find a way around it. I also work in the tech world
> and understand that some of these things are not as easy as them seem.
> Let me know if you come up with anything. Alan
Patrick Forhan
> What do the other devs think about this? Car Cast has about 5k users. This
> 1 user could use some extra logic (since a fixed intro is always in front of
> his feed's content), do we add this extra logic for just him?
A quick thought: This may be the time to implement the per-feed depth
option... but I don't think making the logic improvements to the
podcast scanner are a bad thing... if should look at the whole list,
and not just stop when it sees it's downloaded one thing.
Pat.
--
Defy mediocrity.
Bob Herrmann
I can envision adding to the "Subscription Edit" page two options
A "max" dropdown with ("Use Global") as the default but then same range as in the "max" settings option
A "order" checkbox which labeled "newest first" - mostly you would uncheck this for audiobooks (before doing your first download)
-bob
>
> Pat.