akhilrex / podgrab

A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.
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[Bug Report] iOS player can't be controlled outside of active website #294

Closed matthewkdies closed 8 months ago

matthewkdies commented 10 months ago

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Describe the bug When playing podcasts via iOS, the player is not controllable/accessible from Control Center, notifications, etc. Actually, the only way to control the playback is through the website itself.

As a side note, the playback on iOS also has no working progress bar, meaning during web playback it is impossible to see where in the playback the user is or how much they have left.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open PodGrab on iOS
  2. Begin playback
  3. Exit site/browser -> playback continues, but cannot stop/start it

Expected behavior The user would be able to control their podcast playback through control center, the lock screen, notifications, etc.

Additional context I'm not sure what kind of lift it would take to make this possible, but it would really really elevate the experience for me as a user. This is currently the only thing preventing this from being my main platform for podcast listening!