Version 1.6.13 Prereleased!

[marwatk]

Hi all, I just made stable[ish] a new prerelease at http://ota.versatilemonkey.com/prerelease/. The major focus of this one was memory utilization (trying to get rid of the hourglassing some people, myself included, were experiencing).

A bunch of other minor stuff made it in as well. Here's the complete list:
1.6.13 (pre-release)

* Fixed bug with audio podcasts trying to be video ones

1.6.12 (pre-release) (Feb 6, 2009)

* Hopefully fixed: Don't know whether you've seen this before - but I use the Auto on/off feature every night, and any podcasts I'm in the middle of always restart from the beginning after my Bold has been off and on again. It states the correct position, but when pressing Space to resume, it restarts from the beginning.
* Old podcasts aren't getting deleted, consuming memory
* Adding a folder to a playlist should skip completed files
* Made podcast deletion cancellable
* Lots and lots of memory optimization stuff

1.6.10 (development release)

* Old episodes wouldn't delete as they fell off the feed
* Logs should be compressed for output
* Should have a 'default podcast' settings screen that stores settings for new podcasts
* Crashing on playlist creation

1.6.9 (development release) (Feb 1, 2009)

* Fixed: Partial download of feeds wasn't parsing properly
* Stupid non-compliant web servers that respond with Content-Range: 6592057-10801720/10801721
* Setting to keep a certain amount of free space available on the memory card forum post
* Playback priority should default to 15 forum post
* Players that error out should have their state saved and be shutdown to avoid issues
* Fixed: Video playback on Storm doesn't adjust size after rotation (keeps size from original orientation) forum post
* Need some way of setting a predetermined time of day to check for updates (note, only works for 'Daily' setting, currently)
* Ability to add folder to playlist forum post forum post

I'll be working on major features this weekend, but I wanted to get this out and in testing, since the memory optimization stuff had to touch A LOT of code, so I want to make sure everything is still working.

As always, let me know how it goes.

-Marcus

[drmrbrewer]

I entered what I think is a podcast feed (may not be though). I have an entry in my list with just the URL showing, and it won't update to add feed info -- but more imPortantly I can't delete the entry either.

Mike

[diffused]

I had the same thing happen too; url seemed to be questionable and some things wouldn't delete. That was an earlier upgrade though. Pull the battery once, then try to delete it since that seemed to work for me. None of those urls ever would bring in anything for me so I deleted them.
Otherwise, Marcus will surely help you out here.

[marwatk]

Yeah, there are two issues with 1.6.13 (well, more than two, but two big ones).

1) Feeds don't update (kind of a lousy podcatcher without feeds updating)

2) Deleting podcasts that don't have episodes doesn't work.

Both are fixed in 1.6.14 that I'm pre-releasing now...

-Marcus

[mike240se]

this bug from 1.6.13 that was fixed, the audio podcasts to be played like videos....


has this been around for a while? i think in 1.6.5 or so, i had added some podcasts, they downloaded and played fine, but they were playing like videos, with no picture.

could this be the same bug?

[marwatk]

Hi Mike,

No, different issue, relating to adding support for Storm rotation during video playback.

Are you still experiencing your issue?

-Marcus

[drmrbrewer]

I still can't delete the podcat entry I referred to.

Mike

[marwatk]

Hi Mike, and you're on 1.6.14?

-Marcus

[drmrbrewer]

Sorry had missed that .14 had pre-released. Interestingly, I never got the chance to try and delete that podcast because instead I updated it - and lo and behold it WAS a valid feed and feed info now appears. This didn't happen in the previous version.

Mike