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HTML5 podcast app (for the Web, including FirefoxOS)
https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/podcasts
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Download crashes app #20

Closed jeena closed 10 years ago

jeena commented 10 years ago

I just installed the app from git and I was able to search and subscribe to the "Accidental Tech Podcast". Sadly it doesn't show the artwork and when I try to download the latest episode (66) it starts the download and then after about 45 seconds the app crashes fatally and I see my normal home app icons.

I'm on Wifi and the normal Firefox OS 1.1.0 on a Alcatel One Touch Fire.

I added another podcast called "Odpod" and I was able to download the whole latest episode (138) and the text for this episode is a bit lighter then for the others (which I didn't download). When I press on this episode the text "Nothing playing" changes to "#138: Ministerieavsnittet" but then after about 8 seconds the app crashes again.

tofumatt commented 10 years ago

Hi there!

Thanks for the bug report. Currently the app is a bit unstable and is undergoing a pretty big rewrite over in the v2 branch.

In the coming weeks there should be a version that you can check out from git and run on your phone, and should fix the download bugs. It will also offer a streaming mode for phones with smaller memory footprints that can't handle the large downloads or browsers/engines that don't offer systemXHR permission or sufficient storage.

I'll post to this bug again when the new version is released. I'm sorry this one has been a bit unmaintained, but I promise to fix these issues and let you know when I have.

jeena commented 10 years ago

Ok, cool. I really miss a podcast app on Firefox OS.

mcepl commented 10 years ago

Ok, cool. I really miss a podcast app on Firefox OS.

You can try https://github.com/colinfrei/Podcast/ ... its user interface on FxOS phone is horrible (especially media player is basically non-existent), but it can do a way more than this app; e.g., offline download of podcasts (to IndexedDB), and it shows a queue of podcast issues to be played.

fwenzel commented 10 years ago

The v2 branch is live on the Firefox Marketplace also: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/podcasts

tofumatt commented 10 years ago

Sorry, yeah, the new version is up and should work fine; please reopen if this problem still exists.