2012-01-14
Bitter about missing sync in Doggcatcher
I'm a huge radio production fan and nowadays I listen to podcasts rather than live radio. A lot of special interest stuff, but also very general stuff such as the daily news. On the go, at work, at home. Managing new/listened episodes with approx. 20 steady subscriptions and continuously trialling an additional group of 10 podcasts by subscribing/unsubscribing is a heck of a job on two Android devices and two PCs... and quite frank a pain in the a**.
Doggcatcher is currently the best podcatcher app for Android. It was one of my first apps. I love it and use it as my main player. But one thing I have become really bitter about is that there is a "confirmed" issue filed as 0000038 in their bug tracker from the beginning of 2009 (current public count 0001171) to integrate with Google Reader. Which would solve my above mentioned problem.
The absence of this feature and my growing frustration makes me think about reverting to the really buggy and unmaintained Google Listen or to the actually pretty decent BeyondPod. I would like to see gPodder and gpodder.net coming to Android - that would be a blast. Maybe I would even trade in the convenience of Google Reader for that, since the Web Services API 1,2,3 of gPodder.net has position markers. Maybe even have them all: Doggcatcher, gpodder, gpodder.net (also already filed in 2010 as 0000550).
Now, you will find a bit of venting about this on the Doggcatcher forums as well. And when speaking further above of "them", actually meaning the the sole developer "eric". But I just felt like formulating my individual pain :-(
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Hi,
first post in a while. Great. Back from the micro blogging times, huh?
Anyway, I somewhere read that Google is deprecating its Reader so not sure if it would make sense to go the Google Reader way nowadays.
But I have a similar problem, although I could use gPodder on my Nokia N9. It even was the first app I paid for ever and just for this sync reason. But it is just shitty and not stable and one way sync only and and and. Worst spent 99 cents ever.
I solved this issue differently. The question is what kind of devices you want this synced between? Isn't it usually a phone and a tablet and/or PC?
So the phone is with my anyway and I primarily use it to listen to audio podcasts. So I have a non syncing app that only subscribes to all the audio stuff I want. When I am in front of a PC or tablet I still use the phone for audio podcasts (Right, I always have power cables with me and I even placed redundant ones at all major places I hang around).
And on the tablet I subscribe to all the video stuff. The tablet has become an extension to my laptop so I regard them as a unity (TabTop sort of). When I am on the road I have my tabtop with me and again no real reason to sync.
I know this does not really make up for a sync feature but I kind of arranged myself with it and it works quite well. Only problem is when you run out of juice ;-)
Greetings
Still the same-same. Basically only using one device and have Audio Bluetooth Adapters wherever I need an outlet.
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