Windows

Supported Version

gPodder is tested on Windows 10, but it should also work on Windows 7 and later.

gPodder 3.11.2 and later is known not to work on Windows 7. Although, it might be possible to build gPodder yourself using an older version of msys2.

gPodder 3.10.9 and later is known not to work on Windows XP.

Changing the gPodder Home/Download Folders on Windows

See the User Manual for background on changing the gPodder Home and Download folders.

Debugging gPodder on Windows

Both the portable and installer version of gPodder come with a console version for debug messages. To launch it:

Choose Start > Run… or use the Win-R shortcut
enter cmd and press OK
navigate to the gPodder binary directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\gPodder\bin for the installer version, gpodder-portable-x.y.z\data\bin for the portable version)
drag and drop gpodder-cmd.exe from the windows explorer to the console window
add a space and -v to the text and press the Enter key

You’ll see all the debug information you want.

gPodder 3 on Windows (from Git)

See the Windows installer build documentation.

Panucci on Windows

Panucci is a resuming podcast and audiobook player, originally developed for Maemo and Linux, but it’s also usable on Windows.

Install Python from http://www.python.org/
Install PyCairo, PyGObject and PyGTK from http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html
Install the GTK+ bundle from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gtk+/
Install GStreamer (GPL) + PyGSt from http://www.gstreamer-winbuild.ylatuya.es/doku.php?id=download
Add the bin/ folders for both GTK+ and GStreamer to your PATH variable (Win+Break, Advanced, Environment variables)
Grab the source code from http://nikosapi.org/git/panucci/ using Git (or use a snapshot)
Grab panucci-win32.patch and apply it (e.g. using patch)
Grab a Mutagen release from http://code.google.com/p/mutagen/ and extract it
Copy the mutagen/ folder from the Mutagen release to src/ in your Panucci folder
Open a console window and enter: python bin/panucci
Have fun :)

Alternatively, do the first 5 steps from above, make sure that Python is available in your PATH and then download panucci-win32-20091114.zip.

Additional hint: If you want to have proper Windows themeing, copy share/themes/MS-Windows/gtk-2.0/gtkrc to etc/gtk-2.0/ in the folder where you installed GTK+.

MP3 Synchronization

Warning: this section has not been updated for gPodder 3.10.0 and later!

This is some hackery to get synchronization for an MP3 player to work

Save build to c:\Program Files\gpodder-win32_20090512
Install eyeD3 in lib\site-packages
Install oggdec in bin and copy it to bin\oggdec also. (The unix-specific code searches for the executable by this name.)
To read OGG tags, install Vorbis Tools

http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0.1/windows/vorbis-tools-1.0.1-win32.zip in the bin directory.

Switching to a dark theme variant

To use a dark theme variant, add the gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true line to your settings.ini:

Locate the etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini file in your gPodder installation (for instance C:\gpodder-3.10.3-portable\data\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini);
open it with notepad;
add a new line reading gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true

Example settings.ini:

[Settings]
gtk-font-name = Segoe UI 10
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true

Changing the theme

It is possible to switch gPodder to any Gtk3-compatible theme by copying it to C:\Users\YOUR_USER.themes and referencing it by name in GPODDER_INSTALL_DIR\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini.

For instance, to use the low contrast theme Equilux:

I created a .themes folder in my user directory C:\Users\IEUser
I downloaded Equilux-compact.tar.xz and extracted in C:\Users\IEUser.themes
I edited C:\gpodder-3.10.3-portable\data\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini to look like this:

[Settings]
gtk-font-name = Segoe UI 10
gtk-theme-name = Equilux-compact