pods

warning: still pre-alpha/early development

This is a podcast app in early development. It was created to fill the void of mobile linux podcast apps. Right now you can use it for very basic podcast listening. The following is working on Mobian:

• Adding a podcast by entering an rss feed link
• Searching for a podcast by name, then adding by clicking a result
• New episodes are added on startup
• Streaming (play during download) episodes
• Download episode then play
• Resume from last position when playing again
• Skip forward and backward

Large Limitations

For other issues see the issues tab.

• Does not work on manjaro on the Pinephone
• Crashes whenever an unimplemented feature is used
  • Don't try the rm button

Compile and Setup

To compile and setup on the PinePhone running Mobian. There are two options:

Install Dependencies

The following libraries must be available on the system:

• libfreetype2
• pkgconf
• libasound2-dev
• libx11-dev

On Debian-based systems (this includes Ubuntu and Linux Mint among others) you can use this command:

sudo apt install \
  gcc \
  g++ \
  cmake \
  libx11-dev
  pkg-config \
  libasound2-dev \
  libfreetype-dev \
  libexpat1-dev \

Compile on the Phone

1. Install Rust
2. Install the required packages/libs on your device (see above)
3. Clone this repo somewhere cd into it
4. Cun cargo build --release

You can now copy the binary from: target/release/pods

Crosscompile from Desktop

0. Install docker
1. Install Rust
2. Install Rust cross using: cargo install cross
3. Clone this repo somewhere cd into it
4. Run ./crosscomp.sh --release

You can now copy the binary from: target/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/pods

Setup

I use and test on Mobian with Phosh at the moment. The following instructions assume you are running Mobian with the default user name mobian:

1. make the directory /home/mobian/bin
2. copy the binary to /home/mobian/bin/pods
3. copy icon.png and start_pods.sh from the repository to /home/mobian/bin
4. copy pods.desktop from the repository to /home/mobian/.local/share/applications/
5. either reboot or run gtk-update-icon-cache There should now be an app called pods that you can launch now

How to use the App

First you need to add a podcast with the text field at the top of the screen: either search by name (press enter to get results) or directly paste the rss feed url.

• Click the podcast name to view the episodes
• Click an episode to play it. If it was not downloaded befor this will "stream" it.
• Download an episode by clicking the dl button
• "Scroll" through the podcast list using the up and down button
• Pause and resume using the Resume button
• Skip 5 seconds forward or backward using the fwd and bck buttons

Issues

For now there are a lot of issues. This app will get more stable over time. Feel free to open an issue, I do not recommend trying to fix things for now, the code will undergo a lot of refactoring.