Podcast with existing episodes

[sjthespian]

I would like to use Subsonic for managing my podcasts since I don't always have iTunes or gPodder running. I have quite a few podcasts where I already have existing episodes, but if I add them to Subsonic it downloads these episodes all over again and puts a "0" at the end of the filenames. Is there a way to convince Subsonic to not download episodes that already exist in the podcast directory?

[jowtron]

Yes, I also have this problem which arises if a new install is needed, when you restore the files the podcast settings are lost and they no longer display in the podcast tab of minisub unless you download them all again. It would also be nice if there was an option to back up all subsonic settings to a file.

[tsull360]

I'm sure its wildly unsupported, but I've taken to manually inserting podcast files into the database. This enables me to reference existing files in the podcast section (I have some files for podcasts which no longer exist).

The first step involves creating the podcast channel:
insert into podcast_channel (ID,URL,TITLE,DESCRIPTION,STATUS) Values (6,'http://www.foo.com','Test Insert','Testing Manual Insertion','COMPLETED')

The second step involves inserting the actual podcast episodes. To do this you first need to retrieve the channel ID assigned from the step above:
select podcast_channel where TITLE='Title From Above'

Then use the value returned in the command below.
insert into podcast_episode (ID,CHANNEL_ID,URL,PATH,TITLE,DESCRIPTION,PUBLISH_DATE,DURATION,BYTES_TOTAL,BYTES_DOWNLOADED,STATUS,ERROR_MESSAGE) Values (371,6,'http://www.foo.com/stuff.mp3','c:\foo\stuff.mp3','Test Title','Description','2014-01-27 06:00:00.0','1:00:00','200','200','COMPLETED','')

Not user friendly (and not meant to be), but is doing what I need.

Tim