Enqueue as alternative to Play

[dayf]

Binary package hint: gpodder

it would be nice to be have a second right-click menu entry to enqueue an episode -- additionally to directly playing it.
(the workaround via preferences setting a player such as smplayer/umplayer which offers an enqueue entry one cannot play directly anymore.)

[Thomas Perl (thp)]

Thanks for this idea!

The supporting code for this has now been committed to the "tres" branch (upcoming 3.x releases of gPodder, unstable branch):
http://gpodder.org/commit/b0f24a0bc

With this, users will be able to write hook scripts that append items to the context menu, so not only can you do the "enqueue" stuff, but pretty much everything that you would want to do..

Here's a tested example hook script that I wrote that adds an "Enqueue in VLC" item to the context menu:
https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder-hook-scripts/blob/master/enqueue_in_vlc.py

It works as expected, and you should be able to customize it for your needs.

[dayf (dayf)]

Great, thanks! Will there be a ppa for an upcoming 3.0 beta?

[Thomas Perl (thp)]

Yes, once it's out, it will be available in the PPA. The problem right now is that the on-disk format (DB schema, storage locations, etc..) have changed, and even though there is a migration script available, I'd like to keep the opportunity open for me to make changes to the schema and locations until 3.0 is out, so that's why I don't encourage people to try it. If you don't care about possibly losing your podcast downloads and database, you can check it out from the "tres" branch of the official gPodder Git repository and try it out already.

[Ranjeet Kuruvilla (ranjeet-kuruvilla3)]

Hello
Could use an enqueue option for vlc and actually for any media player.
Regards