Podcini
Open source podcast instrument for Android in Kotlin with media3, supporting channels, playlists and single media from YouTube and YT Music.
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- fixed difference between the count of episodes and the actual number of episodes (seen when the number is small) in History, AllEpisodes, and OnlineFeed views
- fixed an error (introduced in 6.6.3) in setting feed preferences when subscribing one
- upon start, if no previously played media, the player is set invisible
- fixed an issue of fully played episode not correctly recorded as such when Podcini is in the background
- volume adaptation numbers were changed from 0.2, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 to 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 7 (the max boost being 6dB)
- Kotlin upped to 2.0.20
- Realm upped to 2.3.0
- added ability to receive music or playlist shared from YT Music
- single music received from YT Music is added to "YTMusic Syndicate"
- in newly subscribed Youtube channel or playlist, prefStreamOverDownload is set to true
- ensured virtual queue (continuous streaming) for previously subscribed "Youtube" type feed when the associated queue is set to None
- the max number of media is dropped to 60 on subscribing a Youtube type feed (higher number may cause delay or even failure due to network issues, will investigate other ways to handle)
- fixed a bug in Reconcile that can cause downloaded files to be mistakenly deleted
- action button on each episode now reacts to LongClick to provide more options
- added ability to receive shared Youtube playlist, quite similar to receiving shared Youtube channel
- increased the max number of media to 300 on subscribing a Youtube channel or a Youtube playlist
- ensures to get and save full description when opening a Youtube media from a list
- fixed issue of filter "never auto delete" in Subscriptions view
- corrected issue of "queued/not queued" filter for episodes
- filter on "queued/not queued" is checked for all queues (not only the active queue)
- added filtering feature to Downloads view
- changed associated queue of Youtube Syndicate to None (rather than active set previously)
- in Subscriptions view, the "search" box is changed to a "Queues" spinner to filter by associated queue
- the confirm dialog is more responsive when receiving a youtube media share
- receiving a youtube media share can be dismissed by not pressing the confirm button
- in Subscriptions and FeedEpisodes views, swipe down to refresh no longer has the progress circle blocking UI, only shows "Refreshing" status on the info bar
- added preference "Prefer low quality on mobile" under Settings -> Playback -> Playback control, and default it to false,
- if set true, Youtube media will use low quality audio on mobile network (which has been the default way of handling)
- added ability to receive shared Youtube media,
- once received, the user can choose to set it as "audio only" before confirm
- the media is then added as an episode to one of the two synthetic podcasts: "Youtube Syndicate" or "Youtube Syndicate Audio" (for audio-only media)
- the two synthetic podcasts behave as normal Youtube-channel podcasts except that they can not be updated, and video mode and authentication can not be changed,
- the episodes can be handled in the same fashion as normal podcast episodes, except that those in "Youtube Syndicate Audio" can not be played with video
- fixed info display on notification panel for Youtube episodes
- added a setting to disable "swipe to refresh all subscriptions" under Settings -> Interface -> Subscriptions
- even when disabled, subscriptions can be refreshed from the menu in Subscriptions view
- this doesn't affect "swipe to refresh" in FeedEpisodes view for single podcast
- updated various compose dependencies
- partially fixed an issue seen on Samsung Android 14 device where after playing the user-started episode, subsequent episode in the queue is not played in foreground service and there is not notification panel and can get stopped by the system.
- the current fix is though the subsequent episodes are still played without notification, the play is not stopped by the system.
- if videoMode of a feed is set to "audio only",
- press on icon in the player UI will expand the player detailed view (rather than video view)
- "show video" on the menu of AudioPlayer view is hidden
- some class restructuring
- corrected mis-behavior of speed settings for video media
- likely fixed issue of duplicates or absence of playing episode seen sometimes in Queues view
- reduced some unnecessary posting of events
- removed setting of videoPlaybackSpeed, audio and video speed how handled in the same way
- removed incomplete handling of flash media previously used to handle youtube media
- in feed preferences, the setting "play audio only" for video feed is replaced with the setting of a video mode. If you set the previous setting, you need to redo with the new setting.
- added some extra permission requests when exporting/importing various files, maybe needed in some system
- re-enabed use of http traffic to work with relevant podcasts
- corrected issue of Youtube channel being set for auto-download when subscribing
- fixed various issues on video sizing and further refined the video player
- some class restructuring and refactoring and nullalability adjustments
- updated various dependencies
- in the search bar of OnlineSearch view, search button is moved to the end of the bar
- new way of handling sharing of youtube channels from other apps
- normal text (other than url) shared from other apps is taken by OnlineSearch view for podcast search
- preparing mediaSouces is done in IO scope preventing network access blocking Main scope
- some class restructuring and refactoring
- properly assigning ids to remote episodes in OnlineFeedView to resolve the issue of duplicates
- fixed possible startup hang when previous media was Youtube media
- the fixed for random starts in 6.4.0 conflicts with notification play/pause button, narrowed handling to only KEYCODE_MEDIA_STOP
- some fragment class restructuring
- further improved behavior in video player, seamless switch among audio-only, window and fullscreen modes, and automatical switch to audio when exit
- fixed issue of OnlineFeed view not transition to FeedEpisodes view when subscribing a Youtube channel
- media3 upped to 1.4.1
- removed dependency of androidx.media
- minSDK bumped to 24 (Marshmallow no longer supported, sorry)
- in OnlineSearch view, info about subscriber counts (when available) are added to podcasts
- likely fixed video fragment crash due to: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Fragment VideoEpisodeFragment
- improved behavior of toggling video view modes
- added setting in feed preferences to play audio only for video feeds
- added feature to truly handle Youtube channels
- Youtube channels can be searched in OnlineSearch view and browsed, played or subscribed in OnlineFeed view
- Youtube media are played within Podcini, in video pr audio modes
- in feed setting of Youtube channels, "Prefer streaming" and "Auto download" options are disabled
- limitations:
- Youtube channels search currently only showing up to 20 results
- A YouTube channel is only fetching up to 30 media
- Youtube media can only be streamed (not downloadable for now)
- video quality is set to lowest, audio quality is set to highest on wifi and lowest on mobile (not customizable now)
- Youtube feed is not auto-downloadable
- PlaybackService is now a MediaLibraryService and also takes over many functionalities from PlaybackController
- PlaybackController is renamed to ServiceStatusHandler and is stripped to bare bones
- enabled Android Auto UI, currently playing episode and episodes in the active queue are shown in the Auto UI
- added code to handle case where keycode=-1 and keyEvent!=null, attempting to resolve the occasional issue of random start playing