Feed Options

Submitted by eric on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 22:02

Basic Options

RSS URL

This is the web address for the Feed.

Nickname

You can specify a name that will displayed in place of the name provided by the feed publisher.

Auto Download

DoggCatcher will download media enclosures for new items until this value is reached.

Set this value to 0 (default) to disable automatic downloading of media for this Feed.

Auto Delete Policy

DoggCatcher can delete media to make room for new media. Note that the media is not deleted until just prior to adding new items to the queue.

  • None - media will not be automatically downloaded
  • As space is needed - DoggCatcher will delete done media as needed (to keep within the auto-download quantity) when there is new media ready to be downloaded. Available SD card space does affect this deletion policy in any way.

    E.g. - If you have auto-downloads set to 5 and 'As space is needed' configured, the oldest 5 new items will be kept. Once one of the 5 items is flagged as done, it will be deleted and the oldest new un-downloaded item will be downloaded. This essentially creates a sliding window of new items whose size is the value of auto-downloads. The window slides along the oldest end of the new items. Confusing...yep.

  • All done items - media flagged as Done will be deleted when the feed is updated.
  • Keep most recent (Delete oldest) - This will delete all of the oldest media except for the newest x media files where x is the number configured for auto-downloads. It will delete the oldest regardless of whether the media is flagged as New, In Progress, or Old.

Number of Items

This is the number of items that will be displayed for this feed. This does not include Expired Items.

Advanced Options

Virtual Feed

A virtual feed uses a folder on the SD card as content for a feed. E.g., you can place audio files from an audio book in a folder and play them like a regular feed.

Steps to creating a virtual feed:

  • Create a feed using the 'add feed' action in the DoggCatcher menu
  • Select 'Add by RSS URL'
  • Enable the 'virtual feed' feed option.
  • Save the feed
  • View the list of feeds. Your new virtual feed will have a number in the title.
  • Place the media files in the folder on your SD card that corresponds to the folder for the virtual. E.g. /sdcard/DoggCatcher/EpisodeEnclosures/[number].
  • Update the feed

Retain Expired

If this option is selected, DoggCatcher will not delete items that are deleted from the published feed. These items can be manually deleted from item context menu.

Item Identifier

Some feeds use the same title for every item. If you see only one item displayed for a feed when you expect more, try selecting an alternate identifier. This is not common.

Make filenames unique

Some feeds use the same filename for every item. If you see all of the item icons (speaker, green arrow, etc) changing at the same time when the state of one of them changes, try enabling this feature. Changing this option requires that you re-downlkoad media for this feed. This is not common.

Full fetch

Some feeds publish items out of order. If you are seeing only older items or the items are in a strange order, try selecting this option. This increases network traffic, so use only when needed. This is not common.

Username/Password

Enter username and password if your feed requires authentication credentials.