Podcast stops playing when (re)loading a feed

[icewind1991]

While listening to an audio podcast in a news reader, when (re)loading a feed the podcasts stops playing because the element gets removed.

A option might be to move the element outside the feed view when the audio is playing.

For long term, it might be nice to integrate it in the media app in a way. (if the media app ever gets fixed properly)

[BernhardPosselt]

Hm it would ofc be cool if you could just listen to the podcast and read the next bunch of headlines if its not interesting. We would require global player controls that would be shown all time which is kinda weird for a feed reader.

There are IMO two better solutions:

• Integrate with the media app (own playlist podcasts for instance)
• Open a second window to play the podcast

@jancborchardt

[jancborchardt]

»when reloading a feed« – does that happen 1) without user interaction, or 2) by you explicitly going to a different feed or reloading the browser?

If it’s 1), we need to fix it (by blocking loading when you listen to a podcast) and if it’s 2) we shouldn’t try to do anything on it atm.

[BernhardPosselt]

@jancborchardt 2) very likely

[icewind1991]

2, I wanted to read the new items while I was listening to a podcast

[jancborchardt]

Ok, then the fix should simply be to keep the DOM element outside the feed view, like @icewind1991 originally suggested. Other solutions like controls and integration into the music player sound complicated and probably are.

That said, when we have more time maybe we should also aim to optimize the News app for podcasts. I don’t think it should be a different app (because blogs also have audio entries) and neither should it be integrated in the music app, because the only similarity with music is that it’s audio.

[cosenal]

👍 I like this. This was in my first original proposal when I applied to GSoC. The app changed too much since then, but this is still in my dreams :)

[BernhardPosselt]

@jancborchardt where should we put the controls? Its quite easy to integrate into the music app btw ;D and i think we should seperate responsibilities well and define the stuff that the news app wont do.

agree that optimizing for podcasts is a cool idea.

[jancborchardt]

I hope you’re not talking about tackling this issue now. It’s out of
scope for the moment because there’s some more pressing stuff like
first run experience.

With »when we have time« I meant after the basic stuff is done. Please
no work on this for now.

[cosenal]

Agree, this is for version 2.0 :)

[BernhardPosselt]

Milestone next it is then ;D

[piratenpanda]

Something like on jamendo would be cool I guess

[BernhardPosselt]

This is tricky if you also think of movies. Do we have a proper design for this yet?

[pmk1c]

I don't think it should be integrated with the music app. The people behind elementaryOS made some good points on that: http://elementaryos.org/journal/why-a-music-app-shouldnt-be-a-podcast-app