Adam Curry tested my ‘iPodder for windows’ -script on his laptop and he thinks it works Fucking Fantastic!
Listen to his dailySourceCode of august 30, 2004 specialy the part between 12.15 and 13.33 
I think his idea to centralize things on for instance a sourceforge page is a very good idea. One place where we can put all our developer activities together to make this really work.
Just received an e-mail from Jeff Shiller, the guy that is developing the Eyetuner-app, he expects to release Eyetuner in a couple of weeks!
I just found an interesting post on manicwave.com. This guy is developing software for the pocketpc that he calls eyetuner and that should works as a PocketPC based iTunes remote control. That would really open up the Ipod-platform… I hope he is going to publish it. I’ve contacted him by email and will let you know if he does.
Maybe we should call it the IPAQ-platform and rename iPodder to iPAQqer
Things todo:
- rewrite the last version to a non-itunes version (i want to try to store downloads directly to my iPAQ, its been laying around for almost a year now, still like my paper diary better but maybe if i buy some extra memory i can make it usefull again)
- like the iPHPodder script add a memory-file to the script that will remember which files were downloaded allready, so even after deletion of a file it won’t be downloaded again.
About aweek ago Adam Curry asked me, after i left a comment on his site, if was going to publish my iPhpodder script. I liked that idea and needed something to publish it with and downloaded and installed wordpress of which i had read a review on Sitepoint. So that explains the strange url of this blog.
The last week i’ve published several new versions of iPHPodder and another version in javascript that will run standalone on windows 2000 and XP.
Now that i have this platform, i think continuing this blog would be fun. So i renamed it to iPieter’s Blog. I know, its not a very creative name, if you have a better suggestion…
Anyway, for all you non-dutch people: Pieter in dutch sounds like Peter in English.
The subject of this blog will be broader then just the iPodder-script. Its going to be about a broad range of internet-related stuf and other things that have my interest.
I don’t know if i’m much of a writer, but i’ll do my best. My English-wringing is still a bit rusty, but by doing it it will improve, i hope.
OK. got to go, the chinese food just arived.. .
Ok, Another update.
Changes:
1. I found out that the popup messages stalled the execution until you clicked the OK button. They now show for 3 seconds and then automatically dissapear while the script continues execution.
2. Some people asked for something to show progress, so when an RSS feed is scanned it now popups the channelname and when a file is downloaded it also will popup the filename.
3. Instead of adding all files to the mainlibrary of Itunes the script now adds the files to the right playlist. If the playlist does not exist the script will create it. The name of the playlist is equal to the channelname.
4. The log will show only the new files that where downloaded plus shows the total number of downloaded files.
5. I’ve added a litle installation instruction to the zip.
Download iPodder_js_1.00a
(Edit: you find a newer version here)
Please let me now if everything works ok and what wishes you have.
Have fun. and Greetz,
Pieter Overbeeke
I need some testers. This plus version should also update the files on your Ipod!
Since i don’t own an ipod please let me now if it works or not.
Ok, big step now (it was only 3 extra lines…). You need Itunes installed for this one. The script now gets your files, stores them in the target directory and adds them to your i-tunes library!.
Have fun. Download i-podder_js_0.99
If windows asks you what program to open the file with then you need to install windows script. You can download it here from the microsoft site.
To schedule a task to run i-podder.js automatically every night (at 2.30) i wrote a script that will add this to you scheduled-task list. When you run the script it prompts an error-code when its finished. If it prompts zero then thats OK. scheduletask.vbs -> change line 6 for the path to the script on your harddrive
OK, minor change today. The messagebox that apears when i-podder.js has finished collecting now shows a little log. The log tells you which rss-feeds where processed and which files where collected, it also tells you where to find those on your hardrive.
You can download version 0.02 here
Just found out that the script does not copy/download the files that are allready in your target directory/folder!
OK, maybe the php platform is not perfect. So i did some learning today, read a thousand newsposts and start developing an i-podder for the windowsplatform. I think it should run on any windowsmachine, but some testing need to be done so please help me.
you can download the script here
Its two files:
1. i-podder.js , the script itself
2. feeds.txt
First configure feeds.txt. On the first line you put the path of the destination folder
The other lines you use to put your feeds in.
Ok. doubleclick i-podder.js and you should get a message: ‘I-podder.js starts collecting’
When its finished it gives a message: ‘I-podder.js finished collecting’
Please let me know if it works.
ToDo:
- test if files where not allready downloaded
- after downloading throw files in target folder into the itunes library ( i discovered that i-tunes on windows coms with a com-object that can be accessed with activex controls!!!)
Another new version. I cleaned up the code, got rid of the $GLOBALS and using $_SESSION['vars'] for parsing the vars between functions. I also put the functionallity of 0.01 and 0.02 together. Found out that not everybody puts their mp3-enclosures in an <enclosure> tag. So now i scan both enclosure- and description-tags.
Have fun.
btw i’m working on a mysql version which has a userinterface for adding feeds and listing the downloaded files.