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The place to report bugs and suggest improvements for the podcast app Mimir
https://mimirpodcasts.app
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[macOS] Add preview feature for locally downloaded episodes #217

Open gdavis opened 2 years ago

gdavis commented 2 years ago

As a user I want to be able to scrub and listen to parts of an episode without adding the episode to the now playing player.

Original email request:

  1. on the macOS client how do I listen to just part of an episode (of a podcast to which I have subscribed) to see whether it contains something I actually do want to listen to (and so would like to put it into the Playlist) without it jumping into/adding itself to Now Playing, please? I can’t see a way to get what was previously in Now Playing back there.

Steps:

  1. Investigate complications with two audio players
  2. Scope UI work needed to build in a second player, either from a popover or inline audio controls in the podcast detail view.
    1. Does one player starting pause the other?
    2. Could more than one be started?
    3. What happens when an interruption happens? Does the preview pause and then resume after the interruption, or just pause? What does that mean for the main player?
  3. Implementation