Minimal Podcasts Player

https://github.com/son-link/minimal-podcasts-player

Subscribe, listen and (in the future) download your favorite podcasts, quickly and easily.

Available for Linux, Windows and Mac.

Licensed under GNU/GPL3 or higher.

Note: this project is still under development, so some features are not yet available or complete.

Install

From source code:

• Clone the repo, download the zip under Code -> Download ZIP or download the last release.

• Open a terminal and go to the project folder.

• Install the dependencies:

  • From PIP (with administration permissions): pip install -r requirements.txt

  • Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/MX Linux:

    • apt: apt install python3-pyqt5, python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia, libqt5multimedia5, libqt5multimedia5-plugins
    • Pypi: pip3 install podcastparser

  • Arch Linux/Manjaro:

    • pacman: python-pip python-podcastparser python-pyqt5 qt5-multimedia
    • Pypi pip install

  • Copy bin/minimal-podcasts-player.desktop to /usr/share/applications

  • Copy bin/minimal-podcasts-player.svg to /usr/share/pixmaps

  • Windows:

    • Install Python, or Conda/Miniconda.
    • Open a terminal (cmd or Poweshell) and execute pip install -r requirements.txt

  Note: if you use Conda/Miniconda, DON'T install the package pyqt from conda and conda-forge repositories, install it from Pypi, since the one installed from them does not include the libraries for multimedia playback.

From Pypi:

pip install minimal-podcasts-player

Executables:

You can download a AppImage for GNU/Linux and executable for Windows on releases page

If you use Arch Linux, Manjaro or other Arch based distros a package is avaliable on AUR

Other credits:

• App icon (temporary) make by BedexpStock and licensed under Pixabay License

• no-cover.svg image make by me using a Material Design Icons from Google and licensed under Apache license version 2.0.

Especial mentions:

• Engels Tercero from the Telegram group SystemInside, for helping me package the Mac OS X application.
• Thanks to David Linares, member of SystemInside's Telegram group for report the bug and provide several ideas.