gPodder review

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If you use linux and podcast fan, then chances are you've heard of gPodder. If you're on windows, mac osx or and n800/n900 then you might not be as aware of this great little podcast aggregator.

Looks!

GPodder is an amazingly useful little tool, with a ridiculously large range of features to make using other clients or music managers as poscast aggregator. The UI is streamlined and easy to use, with a simplistic gtk style as an initial face and a heavy number of options hidden neatly behind the toolbar.

Features!

I find the features listed on the gPodder website too humbling, so here's all the features that I have found useful, big and small.

• Easy 2 pane 2 tab management interface
• Progress bar when updating feeds
• RSS, Atom, Youtube and Soundcloud feed support
• Numbers of downloaded and unplayed episodes to right of podcast name
• Full window for episode details
• Visit website button in menu
• Ability to prohibit deletion of episodes
• Ability to skip podcast when syncing to device
• Ability to download from http/ftp when password is required
• Supports album art well
• Additional components such as iPod synchronization available
• Search for new podcasts feature
• Useful list of tech podcasts available to pick and choose from in search for podcasts
• Ability to import from .opml
• Ability to export to .opml
• Google video and Youtube search
• Ability to upload podcast list to your gPodder account
• Ability to download your podcast list from gPodder account   
• Ability to hide toolbar and episode description
• Populated wiki for help, support and how-to
• Easy bug-reporting via launchapd

Preferences options

• Easily allows you to change default video and auto player to options from a smart drop down list, or a custom command
• Option to check for new episodes on startup
• Ability to check for new episodes after a number of minutes set by the user
• Ability to use proxy settings
• Auto-cleanup option to delete played episodes after a certain number of days
• Easily change download folder
• iPod configuration options inc:

- Only sync tracks that have not been played
- Delete episodes that have been marked as played
- Delete episodes after synchronisation option
- Mark episode as played after synchronisation option

• Filesystem based MP3 player configuration options inc:

- Same as iPod configuration with,
- Custom filename
- Create subfolders
- OGG support
- Sync folder

• Show gPodder icon in system notification area
• Only show tray icon when minimized
• Enable notification bubbles
• Start gPodder minimized
• Auto download new episodes when gPodder is minimized
• Heavily customisable advanced options

Summary

While you can clearly see all the features available, there are other factors such as it's speed, which for a podcast aggregator is fantastic. I'd thoroughly recommend the client and I think you will find it's easy to use UI and synchronisation features will make aspects of your life (specifically the podcasting aspects) immensely easier.