How To Enqueue Audacious With gPodder

I subscribe to several podcasts, which I am getting rather behind on but that's a different issue. There are many podcast aggregators with all sorts of pros and cons, of which I use gPodder. There are many audio and video players too, of which I use Audacious for audio, and SMPlayer for video. Audacious is so good, and so under rated that I felt it deserved an HPR episode devoted to it, so I did one.

There has been one very annoying element of this work flow which I have just figured a way round and thought I'd share here. gPodder allows you to select your default application for audio and video which is great, but it needs a little step further as an option. When I'd select "play" on an audio podcast episode it starts the audio file playing in Audacious, it does not enqueue it. This means that to listen to 3 or 4 episodes in a row I have to either open gPodder after each one and play them manually, or use Audacious to navigate and add them to the playlist. I no longer have to do this. When I click on a file now, it automatically enqueue's it in Audacious, so I can select that same 3 or 4 in the order I want to listen to them, then close gPodder and Audacious will do it's job and play them in that order with no further input from me. So how do we do this?

Either tell gPodder to use Audacious as your audio player first or not, it makes no difference, as we'll be editing the config file and it's easily added. Open a terminal and type:

gedit /home/username/.config/gpodder/gpodder.conf

Remember to replace "username" part with your own account name. You'll see many configuration options you should recognize from the GUI preferences but what you're looking for is:

player = audacious

If you haven't set it to Audacious yet, it'll likely be blank. Either way, change that to:

player = audacious -e

The -e flag tells it to enqueue. That's it, save the config file and close it.

You expected something fancier? C'mon people this is Linux we're talking about here, where most apps use clear text config files which are human readable and editable. Any clear text editor will do the job, it's a plain text file. You may have to restart gPodder to get the settings recognized, like many applications, they read the configuration settings when they start up. Now you too can queue up your podcasts with ease. It prevents you accidentally starting a new audio file part way through listening to one, forgetting that it'll play it directly, then having to go find your place again.