It’s been a LONG time since started this thread. My stinking Galaxy S3 died and I have a PinePhone now, currently running Mobian. I’ve been happily using gPodder on my Mint desktop for some time, so I know how it should work. I installed the flatpak, and although it doesn’t fit on the screen, I imported the OPML feeds file from my desktop and downloaded a bunch of podcasts.
Partial victory, but I gotta agree with @lads – it won’t play a podcast, downloaded or stream. On my desktop, I have to right-click a podcast to bring up a context menu, then select “play”. Double-click will only show podcast show notes. On the PinePhone, I know of no way to right-click, so I’m hosed. If there were a keyboard shortcut, I would try it, but I don’t know of one.
My take on gPodder on the PinePhone is that it would be good if it used libhandy and it had a control to actually play podcast. If it did, I’m confident it would work fine with the default audio player, or with Lollypop or VLC (both installed). It even popped up with updated feeds while I was typing this!
Incidentally, Phosh crashed and I thought that I lost this post, but after typing my PIN and restarting Firefox, the restored session and Purism forum still had it!
I ordered a mobian community edition pinephone last week and also run mint 20.1 on my nuc. I am going to pay close attention to your posts as I know very very little of what you discuss and hopefully I will learn to actually use the pinphone when I get it next month.
Thanks in advance Photon
I use gPodder on my Librem 5 daily. While these patches don’t make it adaptive, the patches I host in this repository do modify gPodder so it fits well on the Librem 5 screen:
I’ve moved on from gPodder, mainly because my podcast listening is now mainly while I’m driving. I find it’s too much hassle to do that with general media players like MPV, VLC or Clapper, because they don’t save my place in the podcast if I am interrupted.
I find Gnome Podcasts and Kasts to be the best. Both are a little buggy, but very usable. Gnome Podcasts is easier to read/operate while driving. I found them both as flatpaks.
As Photon mentioned it, but nobody added a link yet, let me recommend again another alternative for downloading (and playing) podcasts: Kasts from KDE: https://apps.kde.org/kasts/
It is available as flatpak and I used it on my Librem 5 for a while.
I cannot use mobile interface (sudo flatpak override --env=QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_MOBILE=1 org.kde.kasts) it crashes on startup. But non mobile interface works fine, if you know that you can access to settings menu swiping the settings windows.
Has anybody found a resolution for this? Kasts 23.01 from Flathub still defaults to the desktop view on the L5, and forcing it to use mobile (with the ENV var) causes a crash.