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Just nothing happens when I import the OPML file I just exported from the dying Stitcher app.

I don't know... do I need an account logged in? I am able to manually subscribe to podcasts without one.

Podverse appears to be streaming podcast episodes, even if I have already downloaded them locally.

Symptoms:

• jump ahead / jump back takes a long time, which doesn't make sense if the file is locally available
• cannot listen to downloaded episodes when in offline mode or when phone is in airplane mode

Phone: Pixel 5
OS: GrapheneOS 2021092612
Podverse version: 3.1.11 for F-Droid

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Via the Joplin F-Droid RFP

I am on CalyxOS on a Pixel and using the Fdroid app. I visited the website on this phone and it worked just fine. I also deleted and reinstalled the app, but that didn't help. Usually I'm on a VPN or using Orbot, but I removed all of that to troubleshoot and I still got the "Network error you must be connected to the internet to search podcast's.

Hey there! First of all, thanks for creating this app. Saw it on F-droid recently and found it's great, now following a bunch of podcasts.

One thing I noticed is that even though there are Chinese language podcasts in the database, I cannot find them by typing Chinese characters. Example (this works both in the app and on https://podverse.fm/search ):

• There is a podcast called UFM100.3-一天一悟
• I can find it by searching UFM (the English text part)
• But if I search for "一天一悟" in the app or web, I don't find anything (actually, it seem to match a whole bunch of random stuff)

I thought I'd report it so you guys know about it.

Does the app support private RSS feeds such as those offered by premium subscribers to certain podcasts? I cannot find this feature on the Podverse Premium feature set nor anywhere in the free tier of the app.

So, I guess not?

Any plans to add this feature? It is supported on most major podcast apps far as I can tell.

F-Droid v4.14.0, phone Fold 5

I cannot play podcasts - I see a red triangle some warning at Play button. What does it mean?

Example:

https://i.nostr.build/Z4aQ.jpg

P.S. After installing I connected with Alby account for Value4Value feature.

Hi,

Is there a chance to add option to DISABLE autodownload ?

I know that the Podcasting 2.0 chapters are supposed to be the new fancy ones. However, many podcast do not support those separate JSON file chapters; instead they put the chapters directly in the audio file (.mp3/.m4a) or in the RSS feed (Podlove Simple Chapters [PSC]).

Therefore I'd really like Podverse to support those kind of chapters too. That's the only missing feature stopping me from abandoning Pocket Casts.
I've heard that .m4a chapters can be tricky on Android; I don't know how AntennaPod is doing it. On the other hand implementing Podlove Simple Chapters should be rather easy. Those could even be made visible in the web player.

I promise I won't tell Dave and Adam. 😉

AntennaPod offers a folder with audio files containing chapter marks to test the chapter implementation of own applications:
https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/tree/develop/parser/media/src/test/resources

eg. (summary/description/images/changelog/etc) in a Fastlane or Triple-T folder structure

...and remove Summary and Description from the .yml

Hello!

Thank you so much for for making the Podverse app! I use it all of the time for my podcasts!

When listing all podcasts sorted by most recent, I get some times travelers' podcasts coming up:

As much as we'd all like to know the future, since this knowledge should not be known by mere mortals, these podcasts should probably be removed :-)

Using the latest version on Fdroid (3.0.2) it instantly crashes the app as soon as the 'Add Custom RSS' button is pushed.

Dear developer!
In the process of using, I found a bug in layout / display. As shown in the figure, in the first page, the text in the red box is half blocked. This may be an adaptation problem. I suspect it is because display and font size are set to large (mainly due to display size).
Because of some problems with my eyesight, I often use the largest font and display.

App version is 2.10.1, my mobile phone is Google nexus 6, screen resolution setting is 1920* 1080, font size and display size are the largest ! ! !, Android system is 8.0.
The above is a description of the problem. The overall experience of the software is good. You can see that the design is very attentive. Thank you very much for the efforts of the developers all the time. I hope to receive a reply.
Thank you!

When I am listening to a podcast through my car stereo, the play/pause buttons on my car work, but the skip forward/backward buttons do nothing, despite them working on other player apps.

Hello.

Where are downloaded Podcasts stored (on Android). Wanted to export a download the other day to listen on another device, and could not find the file.

Would be nice to maybe even have a share-button for the downloaded file (not the link to the stream). Possible?

Thanks.

Status quo

As of now (F-Droid Version 3.1.11) Podverse is displaying the <description> tag in the episode overview:

Issue

Since space is very limited, those descriptions are getting truncated heavily. The result is not very useful. The user hardly gets any information out of this.

Solution

Luckily there is another (old) RSS feed tag for this usecase: The subtitle. Even though that tag doesn't get much love lately for reasons unknown, it would fit perfectly. iTunes arguably showing the subtitle only in rare cases doesn't make this any less useful. A subtitle is what comes after/under a title and provides (hinting) information in a short and compact (and plaintext) way. Perfect! Some more information on this tag here.

Proposal

Display the content of the <itunes:subtitle> RSS feed tag in a podcast's episode overview, if available. If not available, fall back to truncated <description> content.