Podcast icon does not change on finishing listening to [#16166]

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Macarena
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Podcast icon does not change on finishing listening to [#16166]

Post by Macarena »

Dear devs,

I wish to report a possible misinterpretation or mismatch in displaying information. I describe my actions, and I attach the view I see. Then I suggest a possible correction or enhancement.

In a podcast, I listened to the one downloaded episode (to one). Then the play went on to the episodes below, not yet downloaded. I listened to 3 such episodes (listed 2, 3 and 4) and then I realized that I may come back here and I won't not see any identification mark that the podcast episode was listened to. The previously downloaded and listened to episode displays the "in the trash bin" icon (a bin). It is clear about this one that it has been download and discarded (maybe listened to). All the not yet downloaded episodes display the "to be downloaded" icon (an arrow down). There is no status of "listened to" displayed next to the others. The episodes 2 to 4 had to be downloaded to my computers cache, because I listened to them.

https://send.firefox.com/download/42b34 ... vXPIHYdA8g (valid for 7 days)

I suggest one of the following to differentiate between the listened to and not listened to episodes in this case:
  • download the episode before listening to, save it to the podcast assigned folder and treat it similarly (delete after listening, if set so)
  • display a listened to icon (no yet existing) to the episodes which were not downloaded by the user, they are not saved to the user directory, but it was listened to them (they were played).
MM4 behavior has been more explanatory: The listened to episode has not been downloaded to the user folders, but after listening, the color of the track has been changed from grey to white. Although, that status hasn't been permanent between MM4 sessions (exit/start) either.
Ludek
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Re: Podcast icon does not change on finishing listening to

Post by Ludek »

Hi, the link
https://send.firefox.com/download/42b34 ... vXPIHYdA8g
seems no longer valid :-/

As for the downloading before the playback: Downloading would just postpone the playback or can be unwanted on limited connection traffic -- so I suppose that it is still useful to start playback immediately, e.g. when user is online and wants to just listen to the episode immediately (and thus without a need to cache/download for the later usage).

Nevertheless I agree that the played mark would be useful, tracked as https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=16166

EDIT: Actually I am seeing that there is already the played mark in the "Episodes view" : see https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view ... 166#c55602
But the issue that once the episode was played as whole then the bookmark bar (in the red circle) disappears, it should stay at the full "filled" yellow state.
Last edited by Ludek on Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:30 am, edited 1 time in total.
Macarena
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Re: Podcast icon does not change on finishing listening to

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https://send.firefox.com/download/dc135 ... O-3M1DX23Q
Expires after 100 downloads or 7 days.

I'm sorry, previously it was a single download and 7 days allowed -- and I checked the link...
Macarena
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Re: Podcast icon does not change on finishing listening to

Post by Macarena »

Dear Ludek,

thank you for the explanation. I understand the played mark. And if that will be corrected and will stay on -- displayed in full or whatever length the track stopped -- I believe that the users get use to it. It definitely gives the information I miss now.

Díky a měj se,
M
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