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    Podbird reignited

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        geekvine
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        I'll be happy to help. Ive been working on a forked version of podbird on and off as a personal project. I do have the sqme concern as another commenter regarding switxhing to git (bzr plugin or not).

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          theare27 @geekvine
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          @geekvine Just out of interest, does your work give you any insights on what's causing the queue to be lost when the app is closed?

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            geekvine @theare27
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            @theare27 I listen to podcasts 40 hours a week so I never close it but i can look into it.

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              theare27 @geekvine
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              @geekvine Restarting the phone also has the same affect for me
              It's not that I'm closing the app on a whim, I often end up having to reboot the phone at least once a day

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                dobey @alan_g
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                @alan_g said in Podbird reignited:

                Is that because he has no current interest in the project and can't be bothered?

                It's more that he hasn't the time to do feature development right now, but is happy to merge things and upload new releases (as he recently did, given the last update in the store is from a month ago).

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                  geekvine @dobey
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                  @dobey thanks for the info. I'm gonna try to get in touch with him since there seems to be some interest in helping out.

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                    Giiba
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                    I always figured the queue being lost was a feature that was missing. If it is a bug that can be resolved that would make Podbird complete as far as I am concerned.

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                      theare27 @Giiba
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                      @Giiba I've been poking around the code a bit this afternoon. I'm a web developer not an OS / native apps guy so I could be way off, but it certainly looked to me as if clearQueue (which deletes everything from the Queue table) is being called when the app exits

                      If that's the case, I wonder if that could be tweaked so that it could be controlled from the conf file

                      a clearQueueOnExit boolean flag

                      But like I said, I could be misunderstanding the code

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                        Giiba @theare27
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                        @theare27 better than I!

                        I once poked around the code and all of it meant nothing to me.

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                          theare27
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                          Podcasts.clearQueue() is called as part of Component.onDestruction which I'm assuming is on app closure

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                            jezek @theare27
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                            @theare27 try to comment it out, what happens (or not happens) πŸ˜„

                            jEzEk

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                              CiberSheep @theare27
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                              @theare27 said in Podbird reignited:

                              Podcasts.clearQueue() is called as part of Component.onDestruction which I'm assuming is on app closure

                              Pretty sure that is to clear the queue of episodes that you can pile.

                              The position of the episode is stored in the db

                              Position (even if it looks to jump) is stored and retrieved, so I suspect that might be a change in the Media-hub. We started experimenting position lost when moved to Xenial
                              https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/4VqqDpG64c/

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                                arubislander @jezek
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                                @jezek
                                Commenting it out keeps the entries in the Queue database, but extra code is needed in the Component.onCompleted to populate the playlist with the entries:

                                        db.transaction(function(tx) {
                                            // Rebuild queue in order
                                            var rs = tx.executeSql("SELECT url FROM Queue ORDER BY ind ASC")
                                
                                            for (var i=0; i<rs.rows.length; i++) {
                                                player.playlist.addItem(rs.rows.item(i).url)
                                            }
                                        })
                                

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                                  TartanSpartan @TartanSpartan
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                                  @TartanSpartan said in Podbird reignited:

                                  I believe the progression from the Vivid to the Xenial build introduced a regression wherein you used to be able to have your place in an episode automatically saved when the app closed, but now no longer. Shall test this theory on my new M10 (with Vivid) later.

                                  Definitively confirmed.

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                                    theare27 @TartanSpartan
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                                    @TartanSpartan
                                    Not saying it's not a problem external to the application - could well be

                                    But when the app exits the Queue table in the app's SQLite database is cleared - everything is deleted from that table

                                    Data in other tables - like the Podcast one that holds the subscriptions persist so it would certainly seem like clearing out the queue on app exit is a deliberate action that's triggered somewhere

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                                      theare27 @arubislander
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                                      @arubislander And there's also no way to get back to the "now playing" screen after the app is restated without starting to play a file - which in itself would wipe the previous queue

                                      Would it be possible to add a "Now Playing" entry to the hamburger menu so that one can get back to where they were

                                      Like you say, stopping the queue from being wiped out is only half the problem

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                                        geekvine
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                                        I have uploaded my fork to gitlab as a private repo. If the original devs end up being cool with it, I'll mark it public and post a link.

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                                          theare27 @geekvine
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                                          @geekvine yes please, happy to test
                                          I must admit this podcast business has me on the verge of going back to Android

                                          Playback stopped randomly for me this morning in the middle of a podcast. Wouldn't play anything. So then I have to reboot & I've lost my queue and my position.. again

                                          It probably wasn't podbird's fault that the sound system stopped & I really don't mind the occasional need to reboot, but loosing where I am continually is exasperating

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                                            arubislander @theare27
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                                            @theare27 There are two separate issues here:

                                            1. The queue gets cleared when the app is closed
                                            2. The position in the currently playing podcast is not preserved when the app is exited.

                                            #1 is easily solved.
                                            #2 needs more investigation.

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                                              danqo6
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                                              Hello guys, I recently implemented importing podcast with OPML file (I was migrating from android so needed that feature πŸ˜„ ). It was only one day effort, but I am willing to help more. Here are some issues for the next milestone. Main issue for me is still this, it can be really anoying.

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