Hmm not sure. They are technically similar because they are both based on RSS but the workflow and the use-cases are completely different. At least for me. So I wouldn´t mind two independent specialized applications.
Frank On 25.06.2012, at 23:14, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Podcast app and newsreader should ideally be the same app, since > podcasts are audio-blogs. Oftentimes people don’t bother to listen to > the podcast if there are shownotes. > > But of course, if it’s a podcast, there should be stuff like embedded > media player etc. The read it later / listen to it later function is > the same for text as it is for audio. > > > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alessandro Cosentino > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear Fred, >> >> thanks for the interest in ownCloud. >> >> Yes, a podcatcher app for ownCloud is one of the future ideas. It's >> already mentioned here: http://owncloud.org/dev/junior-jobs/ >> And I also mentioned it in my proposal, see >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/cosenal/1 >> >> Right now I am thinking of just marking with an attachment-like icon >> posts that contains an audio/video enclosure, such as podcasts. >> It's hard to say yet in which part of the two apps (feed reader and >> podcatcher) intersect, I would guess that definitely in the parsing >> part. Moreover, I am not sure that the podcatcher should be a separate >> app from the Music app. >> >> Anyway, I am cc'ing this answer and your email to the owncloud ml, so >> that we avoid having people working independently on the same things. >> >> Best, >> Alessandro >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Fred Lutzer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Alessandro, >>> >>> I understand that you are working on an ownCloud RSS app. I'm really >>> looking forward to using it. >>> But there is another thing I'd really like to see in ownCloud and that >>> is a podcatcher. I'm not too good a programmer but since it seems that >>> nobody is working on it, I'm willing to start. Since feedreader and >>> podcatcher are somehow related, I just wanted to ask for which parts >>> we could team up to avoid doing the same work twice and which parts of >>> your already done work I could perhaps recycle for a podcatcher app. >>> >>> As I mentioned, I haven't done programming for quite a while now and I >>> don't know anything about the internal structure of ownCloud so far. >>> I'm happy about all the help I can get. Thanks in advance! >>> >>> Bye, >>> >>> kltrg >> _______________________________________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
