Progress randomly (?) lost

[ichthyosaurus]

Talefish (0.5-5) seems to lose the current directory's progress after some time.

Steps:

• start Tailfish, open a directory
• listen for a while
• close the app
• when opened a short time later, the progress is still there
• when opened a long while (a few days?) later, the progress is lost
• it also seems to happen after a reboot

I'm not quite sure when exactly the progress is lost. In the database, "currentPlaylist" does not change but "playlistProgress" is an empty object...

Maybe relevant: my audio books are stored on the SD card, and the path has umlauts in it.

I have no idea how to properly debug this :/.

[jgibbon]

Hi, thanks for reporting this. It would be great if you could help me investigate this further:

• Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing: When you open Talefish and the progress is lost, the right files are still opened but at the beginning? Or does it start without any files opened?
• It is normal that playlistProgress gets purged after a while, this should only affect re-opening directories, not the currently played tracks. It is configurable in the options.
• Can you check if somehow the path to your sd card has changed?
• Do you have the "save progress periodically" option enabled? If you don't, progress will only be saved when the application cleanly exits. Getting stopped by the memory management (more transparent app cover) does not count as "clean".

cheers!

[ichthyosaurus]

the right files are still opened but at the beginning

exactly; it starts at the beginning of the playlist

It is normal that playlistProgress gets purged after a while, this should only affect re-opening directories, not the currently played tracks. It is configurable in the options.

I configured it to "never" forget the progress, and in the database "keepUnopenedDirectoryProgressDays" is "9999". I also tried resetting the config but that didn't help either.

Can you check if somehow the path to your sd card has changed?

I don't think so... Also, the last directory is remembered correctly. Well, and the playlist always is still there and usable. It's not that the files are gone.

Do you have the "save progress periodically" option enabled?

yes

Hope this can help you!

[jgibbon]

As you might've noticed from this issue being closed by a commit yesterday night, I've found quite a few "possible" problems (that for some reason didn't materialize for most people including me) I was able to address or will continue to fix in the next weeks – some things will have to be changed before anyone else should try it. Then I'll have to test it in real world conditions for a while. If you'd like to test that version, as well, be sure to hit me up.

Alternatively, should this problem persist after the following release (will take a while), please let me know!

[ichthyosaurus]

This is great news, thank you! I'll sure test it when you think it's ready :).

[jgibbon]

If you feel adventurous, you can try an automated test build (sfos 3.4 target) done by github containing these and many more changes even before I had a few days to test: https://github.com/jgibbon/Talefish/releases/tag/release-0.5-6

You may want to backup your ~/.local/share/harbour-talefish directory if you don't want to lose settings and the last directory etc. But it should (tm) not happen. Still, I changed a lot, please let me know if everything works for you. ;)

cheers!

[ichthyosaurus]

Sorry I forgot to answer! I tested it and everything seems to work perfectly fine! Thanks for fixing this :)

[jgibbon]

Awesome, thank you very much for checking it out and sorry for taking so long – I busied myself helping out with Fernschreiber. Another tester and me only had some minor gripes with an unrelated change, so the next "public" release is almost on the horizon.

cheers!

[ichthyosaurus]

That's great news :)