Resume long downloaded podcasts
Longer downloaded episodes (3 hours) don't resume from where they left off. Only when I'm streaming them they are able to resume. Downloaded episodes resume usually from 4th minute.
Additional info: I am also unable to skip directly to the time i left off, when pressing the slider at 2:00:00, it play from 00:15:00, after pressing again from somewhere around 30 mins... 2nd hour is available after about 10 seconds.
It seems to me that after hitting play it opens the downloaded file and starts to index it in background, then tries to skip to 2:00:00 while only 4 minutes are loaded so it resumes from 4th minute. Then the indexing/loading still takes time, thats why Im unable to skip to 2nd hour manually.
Repro:
- subscribe to co-optional podcast from soundcloud
- download an episode
- skip to 2:00:00
- pause and close podcast addict
- open podcast addict
- open the paused episode
- observe it starts playing from about 4th minute (depending on device and storage speed)
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Regarding the issue, the app always resume playback, no matter what the episode duration is.
Playback is not handled by the app. It’s handled by the device built-in player. So when you resume playback the app sends the playback position to the device built-in player which fails to resume in this case and restart from the start. If the device player doesn’t fully support the file type/encoding this can happen and there’s nothing I can do about it. This is why you cannot seek for the position. This is the exact same issue.
The only solution might be to play this podcast with a 3rd party player like MX Player or VLC which are using their own engine and might fully support this file encoding.
If you’re streaming the issue can also be that the remote server you’re streaming from doesn’t support progressive playback. In that case your only solution is to download this podcast first.
Xavier