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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Podcasting, anybody? (opml reader in rockbox)Re: Podcasting, anybody? (opml reader in rockbox)
From: Thomas Freudenberg <subscriptions_at_thomasfreudenberg.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:12:55 +0100 Michael, I think for your proposal we need a decent RSS Reader, which converts the RSS Feeds (not the OPML, which is just an RSS Feed exchange format; cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML) into a format which is understood by Rockbox. Secondly we would need a Rockbox plugin which shows that content on the display accompanying the playback of the enclosure. Nevertheless an interesting idee. Regards, Thomas Michael Elsdörfer wrote: > Hi everybody. > > First of all, happy new year! > > I just searched the mailing list archives and was a bit surprised that > nobody talked about podcasting yet. > > For those of you you don't know what podcasting is about, here are a few links: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting > http://ipodder.org/ > > Now, podcasting got it's name from the iPod, but it works great with > my Archos Jukebox as well, so is anybody else here who listens to > podcasts / has his own? > > > So, I thought about how to improve the listening experience on my AJB, > and how great it is to have a open firmware like rockbox, which would > enable us to actually do this things. > > A lot of the podcasters do publish show or production notes in OPML > along with their podcasts, and there is a lot of talk about how great > it would be to have this notes handy *while* listening to the podcast. > Let's take two examples: > > * Adam Curry's (http://live.curry.com/) production notes contain links > to the things he talks about, emails he received about topics > discussed in a show, etc.. Wouldn't it be awesome to have a feature > like "F1 | Show OPML" which would allow the user to view this things > at the very same moment he is listening to the show? > > * The Dawn And Drew Show (http://www.dawnanddrew.com/) actually > includes timestamps of when they talked about what. If that were > stored in a defined way in the opml file, we could add a feature to > rockbox which would allow the listener to view some kind of table of > contents and jump directly to a certain topic. Or, let's say you > really dislike the song that is currently played, you could just press > a button and jump to it's ending. > > So, any thoughts? Any developers who are into podcasting and could > implement such a thing? > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-01-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |