GNOME Podcasts

A Podcast application for GNOME.

Listen to your favorite podcasts, right from your desktop.

Available on Flathub

Quick start

GNOME Podcasts can be built and run with GNOME Builder >= 41. You can get Builder from here.

You will also need to install the rust-stable extension from flathub.

flatpak install --user flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable//21.08

Then from Builder, just clone the repo and hit the run button!

Broken Feeds

Found a feed that does not work in GNOME Podcasts? Please open an issue and choose the BrokenFeed template so we will know and fix it!

Getting in Touch

If you have any questions regarding the use or development of GNOME Podcasts, want to discuss design or simply hang out, please join us on our matrix channel.

Building

Flatpak

Flatpak is the recommended way of building and installing GNOME Podcasts. Here are the dependencies you will need.

# Add flathub and the gnome-nightly repo
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://nightly.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo

# Install the gnome-nightly Sdk and Platform runtime
flatpak install --user gnome-nightly org.gnome.Sdk org.gnome.Platform

# Install the required rust-stable extension from flathub
flatpak install --user flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable//20.08

To install the resulting flatpak you can do:

flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean --repo=repo podcasts org.gnome.Podcasts.Devel.json

Building from source

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts.git
cd podcasts/
meson --prefix=/usr build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Dependencies

• Rust stable 1.34 or later along with cargo.
• Gtk 4.0.0 or later
• Gstreamer 1.16 or later
• libadwaita 1.0.0 or later
• Meson
• A network connection

Offline build are possible too, but cargo-vendor would have to be setup first

Contributing

There are a lot of things yet to be done.

If you want to contribute, please check the Contributions Guidelines.

You can start by taking a look at Issues or by opening a New issue.

There are also some minor tasks tagged with TODO: and FIXME: in the source code.

Translations

Translation of this project takes place on the GNOME translation platform, Damned Lies. For further information on how to join a language team, or even to create one, please see GNOME Translation Project wiki page.

Overview

$ tree -d
├── screenshots         # png's used in the README.md
├── podcasts-data        # Storate related stuff, SQLite, XDG setup, RSS Parser.
│   ├── migrations      # Diesel SQL migrations.
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── src
│   └── tests
│       └── feeds       # Raw RSS Feeds used for tests.
├── podcasts-gtk         # The Gtk+ Client
│   ├── resources       # GResources folder
│   │   └── gtk         # Contains the glade.ui files.
│   └── src
│       ├── stacks      # Contains the gtk Stacks that hold all the different views.
│       └── widgets     # Contains custom widgets such as Show and Episode.

A note about the project's name

The project used to be called Hammond, after Allan Moore's character Evey Hammond from the graphic novel V for Vendetta. It was renamed to GNOME Podcasts on 2018/07/24 shortly before its first public release.

Acknowledgments

GNOME Podcasts's design is heavily inspired by GNOME Music and Vocal.

We also copied some elements from GNOME News.

And almost the entirety of the build system is copied from the Fractal project.