App version: x.y.z (state whether from Google Play/F-Droid/Custom built APK)
2.1.0
Android version: 5.x (Please mention if you are using a custom rom!)
Android 10.0
Device model:
Xiaomi Note 7
Expected behaviour:
Expected synch for episodes new and status with Gpodder
Current behaviour:
Episodes are not synched. Gpodder.net is offline - 500 - Internal server error.
The service is currently overloaded. Please try again later or contact us.
Do you know if the website will be offline forever?
Is it possible synch with another service?
Gpodder.net is sometimes a bit unstable but it usually gets better after a few hours. AntennaPod only supports Gpodder. You can run your own Gpodder server and enter the address into AntennaPod but that is probably a bit too much for most users
Welcome @pes4murai to the AntennaPod forum! Youāre not the only one experiencing issues with gPodder. Itās a project run by volunteers, and probably not so much money. For my curiosity: how did you discover gpodder? Just because youfound it in AntennaPodās settings, or did you know it before already?
@ByteHamster Iām thinking: for new AP users that want to sync their stuff and try out the service we offer in the settings the experience can be a bit frustrating. Should we maybe display an information dialog explaining what it is (FOSS service, limited budget & not always stable, can be self-hosted, donate here)?
And on a side note: I was also just thinking that in the settings import & export (which we should maybe rename to āback-upā) would better fit with synchronization than with Storage. What do you think?
Yeah, we donāt know why now they have such a long period of downtime.
Currently not. And the problem is: what do you sync it with? If you want to sync wirh another phone or your desktop computer, those podcasting applications must also support the same sync method. Any public drive service sounds more like a way to do remote back-ups. The AntennaPod database is one single file: these online services cannot synchronise/update just one line/episode: they need to copy the whole file - which would lead to a looot of data transferred every minute the played status (time) is updated in AntennaPod.
i kept getting this āsync errorā over months, but always assumed it was somehow related to downloading the podcasts, not such a sync issue. thatās becauseā¦
when i click on the notification error, thereās no way to tell. i either know itās related to gpodder, or thereās simply no more info on the app itself. i didnāt know it was related and when i want to listen to podcasts they work, so i never went further down that hole.
whatās more, i donāt even need to sync. i
think i just had that setup because it was simple enough and i might use it some day. wrong mentality, but still that was me. now thereās no password set there, but thereās a logout button. no idea if it ever even worked. a description explaining it better could have helped me to not even bothering using the service since i donāt need it.
i only have 3 podcasts. my database backup is half a mb and my opml is just a few kb. if either could be automatically saved into saf, shared storage, i could use syncthing or any other such tool for real backup (if youāre thinking of renaming it, please do and make sure the function matches the new name) and syncing with other devices, even if not real time. theyāre really not such big files.
edit: now i saw thereās a bigger and more complete discussion around gpodder, which donāt talk only about the lack of information on the notification i mentioned.
Got a new phone and went to sync with gpodder.net, and received 502 error as well. Did a bit of research and found theyāve been down since December 23rd.
Itās probably been mentioned before (and forgive me if Iāve missed the post elsewhereā¦Iām multitasking), but is there another sync service available?
Hi @Mordalo
Great to have a long-time user join us on the forum - welcome! Unfortunately, AntennaPod doesnāt support any other sync service (I donāt think there is any other open podcast sync service anyway).
But if you got a new phone and want to move all your data, the easiest thing to do is exporting your database, and importing it again on the new phone. Easy peasy! The only thing it doesnāt copy are audio files and app settings.
I just tried to create a gpodder account to synchronize my antennapod settings to a new device, but canāt: The gpodder.net site seems to work, but trying to create a new account results with:
500 - Internal server error.
The service is currently overloaded. Please try again later or contact us.
I think the best solution would be for AntennaPod not to rely on gpodder.net at all, and instead provide a way to export the current settings (podcasts, listening statistics, etc.) to a file, which can be shared with the other device in any way I want.
Welcome on the community forum Indeed gpodder.net is very unreliable - a search for gpodder on the forum will make that clear, unfortunately.
AntennaPod 2.5 will therefore add support for another synchronisation method, through Nextcloud (if you have your own server).
But exporting the full database and doing whatever you want with it is also an option already. It is a bit hidden, though: Settings > Storage > Import/Export > Database import/export.
Indeed