Pandacap: Part 6 - Extras

There are a couple other areas of the Pandacap application that are probably worth drawing attention to.

Podcasts

First, there's the Podcasts section of the inbox. RSS/Atom feed items that have attached audio files will be sent here (instead of Text Posts):

For each podcast episode, Pandacap shows both a direct download button (for the .mp3) and a "split" button. The "split" button tells Pandacap to download the file, split it into five-minute chunks, re-encode each chunk as a low-quality .wma file, and return all those .wma files in a .zip archive. This can be useful for burning a podcast to a gapless audio CD, if your CD player doesn't support MP3 CDs (or if you want to use the skip track button as a quick way to jump forward in the episode). In most cases, though, burning the MP3 file to a CD would be quicker and easier.

DeviantArt home feed

On the home page, when logged in, there's a button that lets you view the same feed that appears on the DeviantArt home page when logged in:

These posts are recommended by DeviantArt's algorithm and are shown in pages of 20 items each, just like the Pandacap gallery and inbox.

ActivityPub favorites

The public page on Pandacap that collects the user's ActivityPub favorites isn't limited to just pictures - it can be used for any ActivityPub post that Pandacap can read, and this includes Lemmy threads. It also includes the alt text of image posts, which can be useful when the original server is no longer available (or has moved the file). Pandacap doesn't apply updates to posts on this public favorites page, and it doesn't store remote images in its own database.

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