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General Features QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
Version
1.22
1.0.0.102
4.0
2.1
3.7.0
Last Release
2024-05-01 (1 day ago)
2016.03.07
2.2
2014-05-16 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Stand alone, inc.
Ace Frahm
Doga Armangil
juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/team/index.php
Thomas Perl
URL
Free and Open Source
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
All Rights Reserved
MIT
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
14,95$
0
Freeware
0
Free
Languages
0
0
0
0
0
Operating System QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
Windows 98
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Windows XP
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mac OS X
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Linux
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Mobile
No
No
No
No
No
Palm OS
Yes
No
No
No
No
Programming Language
C#
Ruby
Python and wxPython
Python
Common Features QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
Search
local
none
local & web
local
local & web
Notifications
no "you've got podcasts" messages are sent, but you can see the feed scanning & download activity as it happens in The Spellcatcher's console window.
no
yes, customizable
Popup, Tray Icon, Cron
OPML Import
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
OPML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Playlist Formats
Feed List Format (FLF), which lists one ATOM or RSS feed's URI per line, ues '#'' character for comment lines.
m3u, pls, smil, asx, tox, xspf
M3U
Organize QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
Expiring Channels
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Archive Old Feeds
The definition of "Expiring Channels" on podcatcher matrix is unclear, it is not possibli to understand what that means. The Spellcatcher never erases downloaded podcast episodes from your computer. You must delete them yourself when you are done with th
yes
configurable
Lock or archive to folder, iPod, archive using "gpodder-backup"
Feed Reading QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
Integrated Browser
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plain Text
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Podcatching QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
Schedule Downloads
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Resume Partial Downloads
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Limit Download Size
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
ID3 Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Sync QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
Sync to iTunes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Sync to PSP
No
No
No
No
Yes
Sync to Mediaplayer
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Sync to iPod
No
No
No
No
Yes
Integrated burning to CD
No
No
No
No
No
Media QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
MP3
download & external playing
download
download
download & external playing
download & external playing
MPEG-4
download & external playing
download
download
download
download & external playing
Real
download & external playing
download
download
download
download & external playing
Quicktime
download
download
download
download & external playing
Windows Media
download
download
download
download & external playing
DivX
download
download
download
download & external playing
Xvid
download
download
download
download & external playing
Content Protocols QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
rss 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
atom
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Transport Protocols QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
http
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
https
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
http auth
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
bittorrent
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Proxy Server
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
feed://
No
No
No
No
Yes
podcast://
No
No
No
No
No
pcast://
No
No
No
No
No
itpc://
No
No
No
No
Yes
itms://
No
No
No
No
Yes
Support QuickNews The Spellcatcher Armangil juice gPodder
Support Forum
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Mailinglists
No
No
No
No
Yes
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