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Escarpod
The Symbian Podcatcher
Escarpod
Escarpod is a podcatcher for cell phones that run the Symbian operating system. Presently Escarpod is only available for the UIQ graphical environment. This includes all newer phones in the Sony Ericsson P-, M- and G-series, as well as W950 and W960 and Motorola Z8 and Z10. See supported phones below for a list of phones Escarpod is known to work on. A version of Escarpod for the S60 graphical environment, including all Nokia N- and E-series phones is under construction and will be released shortly. Notable features include:
You can see some screenshots below, and download the latest version from the Downloads page. All versions, together with their complete source code is available in our Subversion repository. ScreenshotsThese screenshots are from Escarpod 1.10 on a Sony Ericsson G900.
CreditsEscarpod was created by:
Data Usage WarningBefore you start using Escarpod, check your data rates with your access provider. Many charge exorbitant fees, and downloading large files such as podcasts may force you to sell your house to pay the bills. We're not kidding! Many providers offer flat rate fees that allow you unlimited data for a more reasonable charge. If your phone supports it, using your own wireless LAN or Bluetooth PAN are great options. Escarpod allows you to specify a connection. ReleasesTo download binaries of Escarpod to use on your phone, visit our Downloads page.
Older releases can be found here. Frequently Asked QuestionsSee Escarpod FAQ TranslationsWe need help translating Escarpod into more languages. If you want to translate it into your language, it is quite simple! For m ore information, see our Translations page. Supported PhonesAll UIQ 3 based phones should work, however Escarpod has been specifically tested on the following phones.
Why Escarpod?The name Escarpod is a pun on the french Escargot, meaning snail, and also used for cooked snails is many other languages. Apart from being a cutesy name allowing the nice little icon, downloading podcasts over cell phone networks is at best done at snail's pace. Feature suggestionsAdd any ideas as comments to this wiki page, or write directly in the discussion group. Where do I find feeds?There are several sites that list and host podcasts. Some starting points are
We have our own international short list of good feeds. LicenseEscarpod is licensed under the GPL version 3 open source license. DonationsYou can donate using PayPal:
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You plan it in order for it to favour it M4B files?
Just left you a $5 donation. I have been waiting for a better Podcatcher than the Nokia provided application.
Hi there, I see in your releases that you have Escarpod 1.2 released for Symbian S60 phones, but I can't find it anywhere on your download page. Help? Thanks!
I also left you 5 Euros, hoping you will come out with a Symbian S60 version soon. The Nokia provided application is unmanageable.
Another frustrated Nokia Podcasting app user eagerly awaiting the S60 version of Escardpod ...
Excellent program! I just donated 10 Euros and look forward to investing another 10 when the S60 version is a bit more stable. The Alpha works well, but obviously still have a few bugs ;-) How can I help test? I'm using it on a daily basis with a Nokia E71x on the United States AT&T 3G network. Thanks, - Brad
thank you for this project. I tried the s60 version on my Omnia HD (s60 5th with touch screen) and it works quite fine, although, apart from the stability, I found the following problems: 1) the player only have the play-pause-stop function and not the possibility to go to a specific part of the file to play. Furthermore it do not remember where we stopped the file if we want to have a pause and finish hearing the file later... 2)the audiobook section do not remember the files imported: each time you exit the program when you run it again the audiobooks imported do not exist any more. Furthermore the player has the same problems as above and for audiobooks it is even more important to remember the position you suspend a reading... 3)when you download a podcast, it is not displaied the amount of mb that has to be downloaded, only current downloaded mb are displaied...
Hoping to have been helpful someway and to see soon a new version, please receive my thanks and wishes for your good work, Stefano
very good software!but how to download podcast automatically?i turned on auto download, the feed updated ,but no file have been downloaded ,is it a bug or i missed something? i use s60 version of escarpod,big thanks!
Thank you for providing a podcast app superior to Nokia Podcasting. If possible to have it optimized for v.5 S60 as well in the near future like the comment above stated, it will be a winner. I use it all time, thanks!
When I'm installing this on my e72 it tells me that the certificate is no longer valid. Is there a fix for this?
This is a great that I've been using a lot in the last couple of years. I've been using the alpha for a bit now and I would really love to help with development on the UIQ version (which seems to have stagnated a bit). Can you please write a short howto on how one can work on Escarpod (where to get external required tools, how to build, how to extract crash dumps from the phone for debugging, that sort of thing). Thanks!