Podbird reignited

Elleo · 9 Jun 2020, 09:22

Oh also, I own the podbird.org domain, if you'd like me to point the DNS towards somewhere else let me know.

Back before Ubuntu Touch was dropped by Canonical I had been working on some network services to sync subscriptions between devices, offer charts and recommendations, and to provide push notifications for new episodes; if you'd like to carry on with any of that work I've uploaded the site source code here:

https://github.com/Elleo/podbird-web

And the corresponding client code is in this branch:

https://code.launchpad.net/~michael-sheldon/podbird/sync-settings-devel

Cheers,
Mike

CiberSheep · 9 Jun 2020, 09:54

@Elleo said in Podbird reignited:

[...] I had been working on [...]

That sounds really cool...

CiberSheep · 9 Jun 2020, 09:56

@Elleo said in Podbird reignited:

Feel free to fork the project if you'd like to take over maintenance of it

Isn't it better to push changes to your repo? Or do you prefer to step back from the project?

You did a great job and we really appreciate your app, remember that

Elleo · 9 Jun 2020, 12:10

@CiberSheep I'm happy to continue maintaining my bazaar branch if that's what people would prefer; although you may want to arrange code reviews amongst yourselves, so that you're not so held up on my time availability for reviewing (i.e. someone besides me can review and approve a branch and then I'll just merge it, trusting their judgement)

Or if you'd like to shift to git with someone else as the primary maintainer I'm still happy to publish builds for you, that way existing users will get upgrades directly from the open store and we can avoid having two different versions in the store.

Elleo · 9 Jun 2020, 12:12

Actually I think we shifted ownership of Podbird trunk to the Podbird Developers group back when we were still actively working on it, so I'm happy to add any of you who wish to continue work on that branch to that group and you'll be able to merge directly into it yourselves then (although I'd recommend you still maintain some code review amongst yourselves if there's enough of you).

libremax · 18 Jun 2020, 10:41

Version 0.8.7 published today by Michael Sheldon:

Fix playback rate
https://open-store.io/app/com.mikeasoft.podbird

Torkel67 · 26 Jun 2020, 10:15

Podbird stops playing when PureMaps gives "Voice Instructions".
Is this a Podbird, PureMAps or UT Issue??

CiberSheep · 26 Jun 2020, 11:00

@Torkel67 that is probably the media hub. Only plays one source at a time... so UT. ~~It's design to work like that I think~~ it's true I remember playing podcast while driving and having uNav indications with no problem...

flaun*in · 29 Jun 2020, 17:32

I do have quite some problem to add a new podcast via url! In the past it worked without any problem. Does anyone realize this problem too?
I already tried lots of different ways to add a new podcast! Also tried a few different podcasts with different url endings. Also https and htttp
Any ideas?

danqo6 · 29 Jun 2020, 20:34

@flaun-in I can see this bug, will look at it

danqo6 · 30 Jun 2020, 11:54

@flaun-in I made fix for that, see https://code.launchpad.net/~dano6/podbird/podbird/+merge/386561

flaun*in · 30 Jun 2020, 11:58

@danqo6 Great! Very, very quick:) Thank you!
How could I try it out? Is it possible to compile a new updated version of podbird?
(sorry, I don't know that much about all this....)

Elleo · 30 Jun 2020, 13:28

Thanks @danqo6, I'll give it a review when I have a bit of time spare and put out a new release

joe · 1 Jul 2020, 08:52

@libremax said in Podbird reignited:

Version 0.8.7 published today by Michael Sheldon:

Fix playback rate
https://open-store.io/app/com.mikeasoft.podbird

I keep looking for this feature, but I can't seem to find it. I have the latest version from the open-store on the OP3.

Elleo · 1 Jul 2020, 08:52

@joe That wasn't a new feature, it was a bug fix (a previous MR had included a change to the playback rate which shouldn't have been there). I might see about making the playback rate configurable when putting together the next release though

joe · 1 Jul 2020, 15:43

@Elleo Ok thanks for the clarification. And thank you for working on this!

danqo6 · 2 Jul 2020, 21:03

Hello guys, I implemented today that podbird can remember queue between restarts and playback position for every episode. There is new setting where you can set up that episode will continue in playing where you left. Can you please test it? Download armhf or arm64 build.
@flaun-in It has implemented that fix too

CiberSheep · 2 Jul 2020, 23:01

@danqo6 said in Podbird reignited:

Hello guys, I implemented today that podbird can remember queue between restarts and playback position for every episode.

Whhhheeeet?? How did you do that?

joe · 3 Jul 2020, 01:03

@danqo6 amazing! Highly desired feature.

It works on armhf Ubuntu Touch GSI OP3.

Interesting that it is an optional setting. I , too, wonder how it works, and would a crash of Podbird still be able to catch the position before it closes? Will continue testing.

Thank you for this!

CiberSheep · 7 Mar 2020, 01:25

Arale on dev channel

Reopening the app keeps the cue (but keeps the already listened episodes)
Position in a episode is lost (always starts from position 0:00) no matter if it's on or off settings for downloaded episodes*.
Listen an episode until the end, reopen the app. The episode stays in the cue

* -- If the last listened episode is a downloaded episode, when reopening, the position is lost
-- Online episodes remember position
-- If you listen to a downloaded episode, jump to an online episode and reopen the app. Position of both episodes are remembered