Thanks for developing PodTrapper, I've purchased it after using it on trial for about a week. I tend to spend a lot of time on the road and it's nice to have podcasts handy at any time to listen to while in traffic, a hotel room, or whenever I've got a moment. Having podcasts on your phone is a nice touch to the mobile user, but I see a few use cases I think would make the experience even better:
My phone is always with me, even in a variety of environments. These range from fully connected with EVDO/3G (like when I'm in the city) to poorly connected with 1XRTT/2G (when I'm at my cabin) or no connectivity (like in a flight). As such I'd like to have more control over how my podcasts are downloaded and stored. For instance, it'd be nice to have a "pause/resume all downloads" button to halt downloads in poor areas. And a schedule for what time a podcast should be downloaded (like in the middle of the night). However, podcasts, at least for me, vary in "importance". There's a few I listen to every day, there's some I listen to once in a while, and there's a few I'd like to keep around just because I might find myself stuck in an airport for a few hours waiting for the plane to get fixed .. as such, I'd like to see different configurations for each podcast. My flash chip only stores so many as well, so a per-podcast retention policy would help a lot. PVR style settings like "Keep only ___ episodes." would be nice or even "Keep only if there's space." My PVR at home does a good job of this, it records every episode of a show but discards the oldest when it records a new one. This makes it possible to have the latest-and-greatest episodes of your not-so-often listened to shows ready for when they tell you to "turn off all electronic devices" for that long flight from IAD to LAX. Some podcasts as well I don't want every episode of. I'd like to browse the summaries of the individual shows and queue up one or more for immediate download. Otherwise I'd like those podcasts to have "Max to auto-download" set to 0 until I specifically request them. (The use case of this is there's a podcast from NPR I like that I listen only when they cover certain topics, some topics I never want to listen to).
Finally, what XML tag does PodTrapper respect for the "Summary" part of the individual display? {description} doesn't seem to show. (Curly braces instead of gt/lt to defeat anti-tagging in forums).
So, a quick summary:
- Pause/resume all downloads (main menu item)
- Schedule/retention configuration for individual podcasts (all of the following items)
- Max to auto-download "0" setting
- Retention policy choice: Keep all, Keep only /n/ episodes (delete oldest and get latest), Delete episodes when space is needed (delete oldest and get latest).
- Time to begin downloads (also "at any time")
Again, thanks, this is a nice piece of software and I hope you'll take time to consider my requests!
edit: fix some speeling