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Panucci Resuming Audiobook Player for Maemo

This media player can play audio books and podcasts, remember the last playback position and also manage bookmarks.

Panucci Micro Edition (for Java-enabled Mobile Phones)

Early in the morning of September 10th, I've been working on the so-called "Micro Edition" of Panucci, enabling me to play long audio files on my Nokia XpressMusic mobile phone with resuming functionality (i.e. if I stop playback and then re-open the file, it starts at the point where i stopped it). This is remembered for each file over all sessions, using persistent storage for Java MIDlets. You can read the announcement on gpodder-devel.

Depending on user feedback and my free time, I might even publish the source code and binaries for the Panucci Micro Edition in the future. Currently, it has a very rough user interface, but it works for me on the go, which is why I implemented it in the first place :)

Download the sourcecode for Panucci Micro Edition here: panucci-microedition.tar.gz
 

Integration with gPodder on Maemo

1. Open the preferences dialog
2. Click the "advanced" button
3. Search for "maemo_allow_custom_player" and double-click on it so it is set to "True"
4. Search for "player" and set it to "/usr/bin/panucci"
5. Close the dialog, playback a podcast and be happy about resuming-ness!
   

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The new package of Panucci should be available in Maemo Extras really soon now(tm).

Thomas Perl (thp at this domain), jabber: thp@jabber.org