I kept hoping someone else would write this plugin, but got tired of waiting...
"Sprocket" is a plugin that uses the undocumented APIs of the Pocket Casts web player to allow you to listen to your Pocket Casts subscriptions via LMS/Squeezebox/etc. What works for me: - Login to Pocket Casts, without having to store your password (it remains to be seen if the Pocket Casts auth token ever expires). - Browsing your Pocket Casts "Up Next" playlist and adding episodes from Up Next to the current LMS playlist. - Browsing of subscribed podcasts, including unlistened, in progress and starred episodes. - (Optional) Synchronizing episode playback status and position with Pocket Casts. - (Optional) Marking any episode currently playing on Squeezebox as the "current" episode in "Up Next". - (Optional) "Trick play" skip within episodes. - (Optional) Variable speed playback (one speed for all episodes) using nothing but LMS built-in tools (sox). Quality is not as good as Pocket Casts mobile apps, but I find 1.1x-1.9x to be quite listenable. To head off some possible feature requests, I should also mention what I have no plans or interest in adding: - Subscription management or podcast discovery from the various Squeezebox interfaces. - Additional "Up Next" queue synchronization or management. The post title says "preannounce", but in reality that just means I haven't decided if I want to set up a repository and commit to maintaining this. Those capable of manually installing the plugin will find a 0.1 release attached here. With that, a number of important caveats: - I've had this operational only for a few days of listening of a few podcasts. Bug reports are welcome, but this is a "use at your own risk" project, especially with the options that allow synchronization with Pocket Casts. - I've only tested on my Linux server, I have no idea if it works for Windows/OSX/etc. and no way to test. - I'm not committing to supporting this, I just wanted something that worked for me. If someone wants to adopt this and run with it reach out to me. Code is BSD 3-clause license. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Sprocket_0.1.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=28854| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AxxelH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66410 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111392 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
