<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thpx86</author><text>gPodder started in 2005 when I needed a tool on Linux to download podcasts and sync it to my iPod mini, so even back then it was mostly about downloading on the Desktop, and my phone of the day didn&amp;#x27;t have much storage space for audio, let alone a 3.5mm headphone jack (I remember getting a &amp;quot;MP3 player phone&amp;quot; with 3.5mm headphone jack and dedicated media player buttons, the 5310 around 2006 or 2007 at which point the iPod as a dedicated device starting to become redundant).&lt;p&gt;At some point though, phones (and &amp;quot;mobile Internet devices&amp;quot;) became powerful and programmable enough that it made sense to port gPodder to &amp;quot;Desktop Linux Userland&amp;quot;-based devices and phones (N800, N810, N900, N9, Jolla) and run it directly on the phone.&lt;p&gt;These days, my day-to-day podcast consumption happens with the built-in Podcasts app on the iPhone, but gPodder (on the Desktop) is still useful for downloading and archiving (hoarding) YouTube subscriptions (especially since there are so many ads on the web and TV versions of YouTube), mixes from Soundcloud and others and just interesting podcast episodes that might not be available in the future.&lt;p&gt;I even recently submitted a patch to re-introduce iPod support, so the current version can sync to iPod minis again if you want to have a distraction-free retro podcast listening experience on the go :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>binarynate</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client</title><url>https://gpodder.github.io/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marbu</author><text>Long time ago, I used gPodder to download audio files with podcasts and then synced them to a mp3 player or mobile phone.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays I&amp;#x27;m using gPodder on a phone with Sailfish OS:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openrepos.net&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;keeperofthekeys&amp;#x2F;gpodder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openrepos.net&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;keeperofthekeys&amp;#x2F;gpodder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The app is actually linked from the submitted page, but it&amp;#x27;s easy to miss there.&lt;p&gt;I also noticed that if I create list of shows to listen to later, I end up listening to more interesting stuff, as I filter out items which are not as useful few weeks later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>binarynate</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client</title><url>https://gpodder.github.io/</url></story>