bherrmann7
Player won't pick up metadata from manually downloaded podcasts
If I manually download some podcasts or mp3s and place them in the carcast/podcasts directory, Car-Cast will play them, but will not find their metadata like title or feed. I think it does read total length, though.
Correct, this is because normally the meta data is in the feed. I've never tried pulling any metadata out of the mp3 (on Android). Is there a library to help with that I wonder? Is this a use case that is typical? Most people dont copy things into the carcast/podcast folder.
Related: From reading the docs, it seems like there is a standard folder we should be dropping files into/reading them out of, maybe: see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesExternal section "Saving files that should be shared"
I'll look into MP3 id3 tag reading. http://www.anddev.org/viewtopic.php?p=12296 seems to describe a solution
Re: Most people don't... that is probably true, but there are two cases where they would (and I do):
- Just got a new phone and I copied my podcast backlog over, and
- Manual podcast downloads when not found in the feeds. (this may just be a flaw in car-cast's feed parser)