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Updated Jan 19, 2009 by teknolog
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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:

  • RSS feed updating and show downloading
  • Built-in audio player
  • Persistent position in shows between restarts, for multiple files
  • Cover art support
  • Support for podcasts manually downloaded to flash card
  • Automatic downloading of new shows
  • Audio Book player
  • Multiple languages

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.

Screenshots

These screenshots are from Escarpod 1.10 on a Sony Ericsson G900.

Credits

Escarpod was created by:

Data Usage Warning

Before 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.

Releases

To download binaries of Escarpod to use on your phone, visit our Downloads page.

  • Escarpod 1.20 (January 2009)
    • First S60 version
    • New SQLite based backend with massive performance and stability improvements
    • Other improvements based on user suggestions
  • Escarpod 1.10 (July 29th) code
    • Spanish language (new)
    • Polish language fixed
    • Updated Estonian language
    • Proxy problems fix
    • M3U import function for audio books
    • Refusal to start when no memory stick bug fixed
  • Escarpod 1.00 (May 22th) code
    • Audio book improvements
    • Bug fixes

Older releases can be found here.

Frequently Asked Questions

See Escarpod FAQ

Translations

We 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 Phones

All 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 suggestions

Add 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.

License

Escarpod is licensed under the GPL version 3 open source license.

Donations

You can donate using PayPal:


Comment by tiborfuture, Jan 02, 2009

You plan it in order for it to favour it M4B files?

Comment by Garry.Weil, Apr 20, 2009

Just left you a $5 donation. I have been waiting for a better Podcatcher than the Nokia provided application.

Comment by vinsontan, May 13, 2009

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!

Comment by bdadca, May 18, 2009

I also left you 5 Euros, hoping you will come out with a Symbian S60 version soon. The Nokia provided application is unmanageable.

Comment by adam.marek, Aug 26, 2009

Another frustrated Nokia Podcasting app user eagerly awaiting the S60 version of Escardpod ...

Comment by brad.whitehead, Oct 21, 2009

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

Comment by sstev...@alice.it, Oct 26, 2009

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

Comment by waynewang713, Nov 02, 2009

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!

Comment by Paul.Fossum, Nov 25, 2009

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!

Comment by arvid.olovsson, Dec 06 (3 days ago)

When I'm installing this on my e72 it tells me that the certificate is no longer valid. Is there a fix for this?

Comment by guss77, Dec 07 (3 days ago)

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!


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