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Podcast Manager is a suite of extensions allowing users to host and manage a podcast feed from their Joomla! site.
http://www.babdev.com/extensions/podcast-manager
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Ability to string podcasts together (new feature suggestions) #168

Open GaryBartlett opened 10 years ago

GaryBartlett commented 10 years ago

Great component, Michael - thanks very much! Installed it today - got it working immediately.

I have a few new feature suggestions:

  1. The ability to string a sequence of podcasts together (so that listeners can listen to a series, while driving - without having to navigate to each one manually).
  2. The ability to skip backwards and forwards between podcasts.
  3. The ability to jump backwards by 15 seconds by pressing a button.
  4. The ability for the listening device to keep track of which was the latest series and podcast played and how far a listener has got through a podcast (and consequently a podcast series) so that listeners can pick up where they left off, when they next browse to the series.

How doable are these - and do your already have them on your list?

mbabker commented 10 years ago

Shooting from the hip here...

1) It could be possible to do this from the website and some software that would do it. I'd actually suggest that someone download the podcast feed into their iTunes to get that ease of use with listening to the different podcasts.

2) I'd also suggest iTunes for this. I'd have to dig into the media player's API to see if there's something I could build that could trigger a behavior similar to this. A quick Google search found a plugin for the media player which could solve both 1 and 2 for users listening to podcasts via the hosting website.

3) It could be possible with a custom plugin on the media player, something I'd have to research.

4) The player's API supports retrieving the state, so it might be possible to come up with something to remember a playing position. This is easily the trickiest of the ideas here.

GaryBartlett commented 10 years ago

Thanks, Michael.

From: Michael Babker notifications@github.com Sent: Monday, 30 June 2014 4:16 a.m. To: BabDev/Podcast-Manager Cc: Gary Bartlett Subject: Re: [Podcast-Manager] Ability to string podcasts together (new feature suggestions) (#168)

Shooting from the hip here... 1) It could be possible to do this from the website and some software that would do it. I'd actually suggest that someone download the podcast feed into their iTunes to get that ease of use with listening to the different podcasts. 2) I'd also suggest iTunes for this. I'd have to dig into the media player's API to see if there's something I could build that could trigger a behavior similar to this. A quick Google search found a plugin for the media playerhttps://github.com/duozersk/mep-feature-playlist which could solve both 1 and 2 for users listening to podcasts via the hosting website. 3) It could be possible with a custom plugin on the media player, something I'd have to research. 4) The player's API supports retrieving the state, so it might be possible to come up with something to remember a playing position. This is easily the trickiest of the ideas here.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/BabDev/Podcast-Manager/issues/168#issuecomment-47459172.