Improve podcasting support

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Improve the UI for better podcasting experience (we like M$ newspeak ;-)

Currently podcasts are supported but needs a big user interaction.
We'd like to listen to all podcasts (all new podcasts/etc.) with no user
interaction.

Solution via playlists might be good (player independent?)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by and...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2008 at 1:45

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Original comment by and...@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2008 at 7:23

• Changed title: Improve podcasting support

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I for one just browse to my Enclosures directory then launch stuff from there.  
It
would be nice, though, to have a simple way of starting a podcast, listening to 
it,
then deleting it, without involving 2-3 apps (PRSSR, TCPMP, and File Explorer). 
 Does
WCE include any kind of embeddable media-playing control?  I'd settle for 
play/pause,
volume control, and a time slider (preferably with skip forward/back mapped to
hardware keys).  I wouldn't want it to bloat the app too much, though, so I 
don't
think it would be worth doing if you can't get most of the meat of the thing 
from the
platform API.  Failing an embedded player, I'd say at least we should be 
launching
attachments in a more appropriate app -- I think if I "open enclosure" on an 
MP3 it
launches Opera, for some reason.  That can probably change.

Original comment by james.bromwell on 11 Nov 2008 at 3:41

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Tapping the enclosure icon in prssr (article view) gives you context menu with: 
Open,
Download, Delete. The same context menu is available from FeedView (list of 
articles)
under the enclosure menu item. There is also cache manager (for deleting 
enclosures
and cleaning the cache up). So you do not have to bother with File Explorer.

Opening enclosures (mp3) in opera might be caused by incorrect file 
associations -
prssr is using these to decide which program to use to open enclosures. Or you 
may
found a bug. Please check and if so, issue a bug report.

Ragarding the embedding of media player. AFAIK this is possible only on WM6, so 
it is
not a way to go (I have wm2003 :-).

Anyway, I recently ported libmad to pocket pc (someone else already did it for 
tcpmp,
but I needed that for something else). I'm pretty much able to include that - 
since I
successfuly used libmad in a different application of mine. It is not trivial, 
but it
is possible. The only thing I'm afraid of is that once prssr start to play mp3 
files,
people start to submit requests on ogg, mp4, video, etc. which means to 
reimplement
tcpmp :-) Therefore prssr stays poor in this sense, and is using external apps 
to
handle enclosures.

But I still agree, that handling enclosures has to be improved.

One more hint, tapping the enclosure name (on the bottom bar) in the article 
view
opens the enclosure right away.

Original comment by and...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2008 at 4:21

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I was mistaken -- I'm pretty sure I had an enclosure launched in Opera at least 
once,
but I could be remembering wrong.  It launches in TCPMP now, so that's one 
problem
solved.  Anyway, if there's no way to embed playback, I don't know what else we 
can do.

Original comment by james.bromwell on 11 Nov 2008 at 2:43

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An interesting use-case for the playlists comes from bluetooth headsets. They 
allow
for   play/pause/next/previous control of TCPMP, which is really nice for 
podcasts.

Original comment by Marten.B...@gmx.de on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:54