iPodder update
I’ve added some decent error-handling into the script.
When the file ‘feeds.txt’ or ‘memory.txt’ is missing or the target download directory does not exist an errormessage in human-language is given and the script stops executing.
Also the script wont trip anymore when a rss-feed is temporarily unavailable.
iTunes+WindowsMediaPLayer: download iPodder_js_1.30.zip
iTunes only: download iPodder_js_1.30_iTunes_only.zip
I think it’s time to make it a ‘real’ program by developing an automatic installer that does all the checks and asks you where to install and which feeds you want to be scanned and which types of audio-files you want to be downloaded, when you want the script to run automatically. And of course a configuration-thing which makes it easy to change your settings after installing the script.
September 11th, 2004 at 6:39 pm
Greayt work dude … I can only test the Ipodder-errors ..Don’t have an iPod (so sad … :S ) Again … great work.
September 12th, 2004 at 12:34 am
I highly recommend the NullSoft (NSIS) Installer.
September 13th, 2004 at 10:55 am
Hoi,
Ik krijg de volgende melding:
ipodder could not find the file feeds.txt.
This file should be in the same directory as Ipodder.js.
Ik heb alle bestanden naar een mapje ge-extracted daar zit alles in. Wat doe ik fout?
Alvast dank.
Erwin
September 14th, 2004 at 7:31 am
even tho the “ok” boxes auto except after a brief period, I’d like to see them kept minimized to the sytem tray or not even visible at all, because if i’m madly typing away and it pops up in the middle of my typing it can be a major distraction :S
September 15th, 2004 at 12:07 am
Hey, thanks a lot for updating the iTunes & WMP. I had some kind of script problem last week on XP but it’s working now.
Now I don’t have to keep checking FeedDemon or Bloglines for the Daily Source Code. I don’t have an iPod and I use WMP 10, but that’s okay as I usually have my portable device on my arm and load it several times a day as I only have 128 RAM for now . At least the feeds will be downloaded already.
Thanks again,
September 17th, 2004 at 3:20 pm
Hi,
I installed iPodder_js_1.30_iTunes_only.zip. When I run it, it works fine except that my PC slows to a crawl. Looking at Windows Task Manager I see that wscript.exe consumes between 150 and 200 MB of RAM (physical+virtual combined)!! Since the files that are downloaded are only around 10MB this seems very strange?
I guess this is not a problem if you schedule the script to run when you’re not working, but for me it’s a pain, I can’t get any work done when the script is running as I only have 256MB of ram.
That aside, great work!
September 21st, 2004 at 5:06 am
Hi-
One small issue. Your script uses a forward slash -
var fileName = “/” + filename;
… which means that the path is something like c:\ipodder\showname/file.mp3 . Now if I double click on the file, iTunes isn’t smart enough to realize c:\ipodder\showname\file.mp3 is the same thing, and I end up with a duplicate entry, and it’s hard to know what I’ve listened to.
Please fix by changing to
var fileName = “\” + filename;
Thanks,
Jeff
September 24th, 2004 at 2:51 am
The script doesn’t seem to work with the “Live at the Formosa” feed (http://www.reinvented.net/rss/formosa.xml).
It always pops up an error about feeds.txt not being in the ipodder folder (all 4 files are in C:\ipodder\).
All other feeds work fine, but for some reason, I get an error with this feed.
Whether or not there is a problem with the feed, the error itself is incorrect, as this error occurs when feeds.txt is present and correctly formatted.
Could you please look into this?
September 24th, 2004 at 2:58 am
I forgot to add that:
I’m using the itunes only script.
The channel is created in itunes.
A message saying that the file is downloading appears.
Immediately after the download dialog disappears I get the error.
September 29th, 2004 at 4:43 pm
Why did it take me so long to find this?
Adam Curry has created a piece of software to automatically download the latest installments of audio RSS feeds with enclosures to your iPod (or any other MP3 device):
“iPodder is small program that runs …
October 3rd, 2004 at 6:32 pm
Ipodder application needs to understand BitTorrent enclosures in the RSS feed. This wil not scale if we continue to use HTTP to deliver the media files. Imagine if we had NPR or BBC feeds on an hourly/daily basis.
December 23rd, 2004 at 5:15 pm
HELP! I continue to download the ipodder program and no matter what I do, I get the following error messatge. What does it mean? Peter Loewer
IPODDER caused an invalid page fault in
module MSVCRT.DLL at 017f:7801166c.
Registers:
EAX=00000006 CS=017f EIP=7801166c EFLGS=00010206
EBX=fff90061 SS=0187 ESP=0064ea38 EBP=006ee19c
ECX=000007ff DS=0187 ESI=00e85890 FS=5a37
EDX=00000006 ES=0187 EDI=00e85890 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 02 66 89 07 47 47 42 42 66 85 c0 74 03 49
Stack dump:
1e0362a0 007707f0 00dd2712 00e85890 00000006 000007ff 00df6e96 00000006 00df87aa ffffffff 100033af 1e0362a0 007707f0 006ee19c 1e04a820 1000336f
February 20th, 2005 at 12:23 am
I don’t gasp what Podcasting means. Is this portable radio with storage that take out when you can ? Pennyless can create messages to mass ? Do we need Podcast sorting program required ?.