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  • Andy Berdan started following the idea "Rip and encode a DVD/CD with the boxee interface." in boxee.

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    A comment on the discussion "First Impressions" in CastRoller:

    Andy Berdan
    I suggest the link come back into the sidebar. In home, I didn't even realize I could click on "Your Collection" (probably because it's off the page, after the contact feed -- a three column layout might improve that?)

    "Your Channels" always shows in my sidebar, regardless of the "Show your channels in the sidebar" setting.

    And my RSS feed (as both viewed in iTunes, and as RSS) shows content in a different order than it is displayed in the collection view. I'm not sure what link I can send you... on castroller, it seems to use date as primary sort, in xml it doesn't. "More control" was referring to the filter mechanism. Being able to specify more than 20 episodes, for instance... though this is maybe exacerbated by the fact that I just imported an opml full of stuff that was new to the system.

    Also, filtered feeds don't seem to work, I just noticed. eg. /episodes/all/feed is blank.

    Looking forward to the improvements. – Andy Berdan, on May 21, 2008 19:57
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    Andy Berdan started a conversation in CastRoller on May 21, 2008 17:42:

    Andy Berdan
    First Impressions
    I'm not opinionated, honest.

    - website layout needs work (colours, hard edges, boxy, very functional rather than aesthetic)
    - it wasn't immediately apparent where I add podcasts
    --- I suggest a first-time logged-in start page with a big add podcast button
    --- perhaps an 'add featured podcasts' instead of auto-populating
    - In the "/podcasts/add": Add Podcasts button -- instead of the note warning not to click more than once, use javascript to disable and change text on button once clicked
    --- after leaving "/podcasts/add" to grind for 15 minutes, it didn't refresh to a completion page. Either put one in, or say that castroller is working in the background.
    - No sidebar link for 'My Episodes' : http://castroller.com/<username>/episodes
    - can't log in on firefox 3b5, windows. Login window wouldn't pop up. (FF 3.0 rc1 on mac works ok)
    - can't make my own channel easily
    --- had to go to an individual podcast, then select add to channel
    --- expected: go to "Your Channels", then some kind of "New Channel" button there.
    --- suggest a (private?) default channel... having no channels should be an option for those who aren't interested in classification
    --- it's possible that could be the confusion with the missing "My Episodes" link -- with no channels, the episodes get lost.

    And some feature suggestions:
    - allow more control over the feed provided to external programs
    - xml feed should sync up with what's displayed on castroller
    - allow transcoding of audio/video content (might have to make this a "pro" feature, as it'll take some storage)

    Also, submitting feedback using the site doesn't work.</username>