PodTrapper General Settings

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The General Settings screen allows you to change some PodTrapper settings that don't fit into specific categories.
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The General Settings (Main Screen -> *Menu* Settings -> General Settings) screen allows you to change some PodTrapper settings that don't fit into specific categories.
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== Run when blackberry starts ==
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== Run when blackberry starts (BlackBerry only) ==
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Currently this option doesn't affect PodTrapper's behavior, but at some point in the future this will allow PodTrapper to run on start.
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Determines whether PodTrapper should start when your BlackBerry first boots
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== Default sort ==
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== Play/Pause Icon Switches to PT ==
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This affects how episodes are sorted by default when viewing a podcast. This can also be temporarily overridden when viewing a specific podcast via the menu.
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This controls whether the key configured to play/pause in the [[PodTrapper Keyboard Settings Screen|Keyboard Settings]] brings PodTrapper to the foreground if it is in the background (note it cannot unlock the device).
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== Default view ==
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== Disable thumbnails ==
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This defines what episodes are shown by default when viewing a list of episodes in a podcast.
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Thumbnails are pretty, but they consume a lot of the precious little resources available on your phone. If you're experiencing a lot of hourglassing this is probably why (assuming you have more than a handful of podcasts). Disabling thumbnails can noticeably improve your berry's health.
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* '''DLed''' refers to downloaded episodes
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* '''UnDLed''' refers to episodes not downloaded
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* '''Deleted''' refers to deleted episodes
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== Show files in Media Player ==
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== Allow anonymous stats ==
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By default PodTrapper attempts to hide its files from the media player. For me there's nothing more annoying than shuffling songs, being in the middle of a playlist, and having a podcast get thrown in the mix. Setting this to 'Yes' allows the media player to see PodTrapper files. '''Note:''' It's not currently possible for PodTrapper to specify meta data in the files such as Artist, Title, etc. Therefore whatever shows up in media player is up to the publisher of your podcast, which may or may not be accurate or useful.
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This setting controls whether PodTrapper will upload anonymous data about your subscribed feeds to VersatileMonkey.com for use in generating top 10 lists and similar for the podcast browser. The information sent looks like this:
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== Play/Pause Icon Switches to PT ==
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<Random string>|<Feed URL 1>|<Feed URL 2> ...
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Ever wondered why PodTrapper has two icons? It's because PodTrapper can't listen for keys that are pressed when PodTrapper is in the background (it's a RIM limitation, unfortunately). The second icon, labeled 'PodTrapper Play/Pause' allows you to play or pause the current item in PodTrapper without having to have PodTrapper in focus. You can assign 'PodTrapper Play/Pause' to a convenience key, and then always be able to control it. Or you can hide that icon if you don't plan to use it.
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The only things sent are a random string to allow each device to be counted once and the urls of the feeds you subscribe to. A feed published in this manner will never result in that feed getting added to the podcast browser (so internal or private feeds are safe).
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This setting controls whether PodTrapper should be brought to the foreground when that button is pressed or not.
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== Advanced Info Display ==
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== Delete episodes after listened ==
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Normally PodTrapper displays the number of episodes that are new or partially listened as 'Ready', and those that are in the processing of downloading or won't be downloaded as 'Not Downloaded'
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To help you keep your media card from filling up, this setting tells PodTrapper to automatically delete episodes after you're done listening to them.
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This setting allows you to switch that to a string that looks like this:
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== Disable thumbnails ==
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''1N 2P 1F 1DL 28NoDL''
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Thumbnails are pretty, but they consume a lot of the precious little resources available on your phone. If you're experiencing a lot of hourglassing this is probably why (assuming you have more than a handful of podcasts). Disabling thumbnails can noticeably improve your berry's health.
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* 'N' are the number of new episodes (downloaded but unlistened)
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* 'P' are those you've partially listened to
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* 'F' are those you've finished listening to
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* 'DL' are those in the process of downloading
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* 'NoDL' are those that won't be downloaded
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== Auto sort playlist ==
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== Minimum font size ==
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Each podcast, via the [[PodTrapper Edit Podcast Screen|Edit Podcast Screen]] has the ability to automatically add its episodes to your playlist (see the [[PodTrapper Playlist Screen|Playlist Screen]] help). This option determines whether your playlist should be resorted according to the settings selected when you last used the 'Add Episodes' menu item on the [[PodTrapper Playlist Screen|Playlist Screen]] after every item is added. This will also apply to episodes you manually add to the playlist via menu items.
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This allows you to configure the minimum font size that PodTrapper will use in any case (most notably inside the progress bars).
== Menu Items ==
== Menu Items ==

Current revision as of 16:55, 18 September 2010

The General Settings (Main Screen -> *Menu* Settings -> General Settings) screen allows you to change some PodTrapper settings that don't fit into specific categories.

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Run when blackberry starts (BlackBerry only)

Determines whether PodTrapper should start when your BlackBerry first boots

Play/Pause Icon Switches to PT

This controls whether the key configured to play/pause in the Keyboard Settings brings PodTrapper to the foreground if it is in the background (note it cannot unlock the device).

Disable thumbnails

Thumbnails are pretty, but they consume a lot of the precious little resources available on your phone. If you're experiencing a lot of hourglassing this is probably why (assuming you have more than a handful of podcasts). Disabling thumbnails can noticeably improve your berry's health.

Allow anonymous stats

This setting controls whether PodTrapper will upload anonymous data about your subscribed feeds to VersatileMonkey.com for use in generating top 10 lists and similar for the podcast browser. The information sent looks like this:

<Random string>|<Feed URL 1>|<Feed URL 2> ...

The only things sent are a random string to allow each device to be counted once and the urls of the feeds you subscribe to. A feed published in this manner will never result in that feed getting added to the podcast browser (so internal or private feeds are safe).

Advanced Info Display

Normally PodTrapper displays the number of episodes that are new or partially listened as 'Ready', and those that are in the processing of downloading or won't be downloaded as 'Not Downloaded'

This setting allows you to switch that to a string that looks like this:

1N 2P 1F 1DL 28NoDL

  • 'N' are the number of new episodes (downloaded but unlistened)
  • 'P' are those you've partially listened to
  • 'F' are those you've finished listening to
  • 'DL' are those in the process of downloading
  • 'NoDL' are those that won't be downloaded

Minimum font size

This allows you to configure the minimum font size that PodTrapper will use in any case (most notably inside the progress bars).

Menu Items

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