AxxelH wrote: > 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.
Thanks for this. But, I'm confused how to use it! When you say 'Login to Pocket Casts', do you mean via the pocket casts webpage? It doesn't seem to appear/work as other plugins do by being controllable via the lms web gui. Is that right? LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch, Logitech Radios, Sonos Play 1s & Beam, Libratone Zipp, GGMM E2 & E3, Yamaha WXAD-010, Loewe Airspeaker, Google Chromecast Audio, Home Mini & Nest Hub, Amazon Echo 2,3 and Show5, Pioneer WX-SMA1, Roberts S1, O2 Joggler, Cisco Joggler, Avantree Priva BT transmitter Brexit = ∞ stupidity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111392 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
