Well, it’s almost finished. It’s happily running on my local PC, all day long, retrieving podcasts every hour. Fixed a lot, and implemented some new things (which where already on the list to be implemented, and there are still things on the list which will probably pop up in Beta 3).

What can you expect (in random order)

• Space savers now work both in iTunes and WMP.
• Conversion to M4B (e.g. Bookmarkable AAC) is back due to many requests.
• Podcasts added to iTunes will now be marked as excluded from shuffle (will be configurable in beta 3).
• There is now an option to upload your feed subscriptions and your download history to a remote location (FTP and fileshare support, which also allows you to take your subscriptions and download history on a USB stick for instance).
• Added the option to start a retrieve right after startup of Doppler.
• During setup you can now choose where to install shortcuts (startup folder, desktop, quicklaunch bar).
• Default feed settings now transfer correctly to newly added feeds.
• There is a new space saver: remove podcasts you have been listening to. It check for the playcount in both iTunes and Windows Media Player.
• You can now add and remove podcasts to and from the history from the posts pane. Right click to see the context menu.
• Double click on a post will open that post in a webbrowser.
• Double click on a file in the file pane will open that file in the default application registered for that file.
• When an error occurs while checking a feed, double clicking the error message in the feed will open the logfile.
• If you never use the embedded media player (it slows a bit down when clicking through the posts) you can hide it.
• Changed the add feed dialog to be simpler. Advanced properties are still availabe if required.
• Right click on the system tray icon will give you several more menu options.
• Fixed a bug in the downloader causing feeds from FeedBurner (among others) not to download correctly.
• Double clicking a downloading podcast in the download pane will cancel that download. Right click context menu is also still available.

And numerous other bugfixes…

So when will it be out? Well, as said, it’s sort of finished. However, as I will be offline the coming week I will not release it. Releasing software and going offline for a week is not considered a ‘good thing’ So you will have to wait for at least one more week. I’m back online at the 18th.

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