First service release of jsiPodFetch
Today I did the first service release of my podcast downloader; jsiPodFetch.
The new version is 7.35 (I use year and week for version numbering) and this is what i have fixed since 7.33:
- App disappears when minimizing.
- Blue ‘light’ turned of after first downloaded item. Even if there were more.
- It takes to long to open the initial window.
- Items in new feed wasn’t downloaded until restart of application.
- The free space calculation fails when copying files.
- Add a license dialog to installer.
- Removed the question for folder on start when the player is not connected.
- Send user to website on F1
- Missing data in feeds causes internal exceptions. (Changed exception text. Errors on per item, not per feed.)
- Lowering the size limit on the player while having ‘to much’ data on the player will create internal errors. (The app works OK though.)
jsiPodFetch is an application that helps when listening to podcasts in phones or other media players. It downloads media to your PC, creates a playlist and copies the media to your player.
Free storage online
Now that Microsoft offers 500 MB free storage with their beta of Live Drive it is worth noticing that Diino offers 2GB for free.
I have not tried both services yet, but since Microsoft doesn’t accept all submissions to their beta I think you should give Diino a chance. At least Diino is out of beta.
Either way, it doesn’t hurt to use the storage at both Microsoft Live Drive and Diino since they are both free.
Describing the itch
Now that I have released jsiPodFetch I have some marketing to do. It is definitively a task I am not comfortable with. I even find it hard to explain what the program does in an understandable way.
In reality the application doesn’t do very much and that is what I like the most about it. I think (hope) that people will be able to use it without much explanation.
…anyway; the itch I had was that I had trouble copying podcasts to my phone and keep track of what I had listened to. I also wanted to have a playlist every time I copied the media to the phone so that I would get a decent listening order. My Sony Ericsson sorts tracks by filename if there is no playlist. jsiPodFetch will also do wonders with my (very) old MP3 player because it writes the files to the player in the order they should be played.
Official release of jsiPodFetch
At last I have released a beta of jsiPodFetch:
Make it easier to listen to podcasts with your phone or media player.
jsiPodFetch will download the audio files from your podcast RSS feeds and create a playlist for optimal listening order.
Downloaded media is stored on your PC until you mark them as done.
jsiPodFetch is in beta and can be downloaded here.
More information and documentation will be provided shortly.
jsiPodFetch is freeware now, but please take a look at my advertisers to support the future development.
