Kore vs Podcini.X - Podcast instrument
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Kore
Kore™ aims to be a simple, easy to use and beautiful remote that lets you control your Kodi® / XBMC™ media center from your Android™ device. With Kore you can – Control your media center with an easy to use remote; – Including several colour themes; – See what’s currently playing, including relevant information (movies, TV shows, music, pictures and addons); – Change, sync or download subtitles; – Switch to the desired audio streams; – All the usual playback and volume controls at your disposal; – Toggle back and forth between windows or full screen playback in Kodi – Add, check and manage the current playlist; – View what is in your media library with details about your movies, TV shows, music and add-ons; – Direct link to relevant IMDb website for extensive information; – Library maintenance like clean and update; – Wake-on-LAN and other power control actions that the selected device supports; – Send YouTube videos to your currently selected media center; – Send text to the instead of using the keyboard in Kodi; – Switch to live TV channels and trigger recording on your PVR/DVR setup; Currently not added yet – Browsing smartplaylists These features will be added in future versions Works with – Kodi 14.x "Helix" and higher; – XBMC 12.x "Frodo" and 13.x Gotham; Current supported interface languages – Basque – Bulgarian – Chinese – Czech – Dutch – French – German – Italian – Portuguese – Portuguese (Brazil) – Spanish – Russian License and development Kodi® and Kore™ are trademarks of the XBMC Foundation. For further details you can visit http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Trademark_Policy Kore™ is fully Open-Source and released under the Apache License 2.0 Should you wish to help on future development you can do so by visiting https://github.com/xbmc/Kore for code contributions. Permissions Storage: is needed for possible downloading of content from Kodi Telephone: is needed to be able to pause Kodi when an incoming call is detected. Kore does not collect or share information to the outside. Need help or have any problems? Please visit our forum at http://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=129 Images shown on screenshots are Copyright Blender Foundation (http://www.blender.org/), used under a Creative Commons 3.0 License Kodi™ / XBMC™ are trademarks of the XBMC Foundation
Podcini.X - Podcast instrument
Podcini, an open source podcast instrument, attuned to Puccini, adorned with pasticcini and aromatized with porcini, invites your harmonious heartbeats. Do I hear your heartbeats? Great! Common functionalities of a podcast player are well-supported: Search, discover and subscribe to podcasts, by keywords, simple RSS URLs, or OPML files. Download, stream or queue episodes, and enjoy them the way you like with adjustable playback speeds. Save effort, battery power and mobile data usage with powerful automation controls for auto-downloading/auto-enqueuing episodes. If the feed contains no media (plain RSS feed), Text-to-Speech engine is used to play the text. Listening progress can be instantly synced through a NextCloud server or across devices in the same Wi-Fi network without a server. So what's special with this podcast app among the many? Well, aside from doing the above well, the following make it stand out: It's open sourced, free to use and free of ads, free as in beer and free as in speech! It takes advantage of modern frameworks to be efficient and conserve energy. In addition to subscriptions, it allows you to create your own synthetic podcasts to compile your interested episodes from various sources to better focus on your interests. While the list of episodes (filtered and sorted by you) in each podcast serves a natural playlist for you, it also empowers you with multiple queues each associable with any podcasts to group similar contents for better listening. On any podcast/episode, you can assign 5 levels of rating allowing you to make better decisions on where to put your attention. You have 12 levels of play states (like to play soon, play again, etc) to better plan and enhance your listening experiences. You can also keep your personal notes with your opinions/comments on each podcast/episode. It has sophisticated sorting and filtering options for you to better select contents. When you unsubscribe a podcast, it allows you to preserve your important episodes of the podcast in a synthetic feed. It keeps a record of your unsubscribed podcasts and notifies you if you unknowingly try to re-subscribe to some. It caches streamed audio for seamless local rewind and replay. You can record audio clips or mark positions on any episodes for better review. You can also set selected episodes related for better grouping. Sure, you can play any episodes in your car's speakers. And, it's not all about audio, video is well handled. You can cast the audio/video to Chromecast speakers/screens. Some other podcast players can also do all of the above? Join the Podcini community! Podcini is under active development by volunteers. You can contribute too, with code, comments or improvements. See source code on github.com/XilinJia/Podcini.X
| Feature | Kore | Podcini.X - Podcast instrument |
|---|---|---|
| License | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerPodcastVideoBrowser |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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