PodTrapper 1.8.6 Released

[marwatk]

Hi guys, I actually released this yesterday but forgot to post.

PodTrapper 1.8.6 is available for download.

It improves seeking behavior significantly (you can now press the seek buttons many times in a row without fear of issues), as well as adding a few minor features and bug fixes.

Let me know how it goes...

-Marcus

[arkolbus]

"Add Episodes" is blazing fast now, orders of magnitude faster. Great improvement!

[marwatk]

Yeah, turns out it was spending 99% of its time updating the progress bar Now it only updates the bar after every podcast instead of every episode.


-Marcus

[countstex]

lol, I love finding things I've overengineered Have it installed, will report any feedback in a day or two

[Neuroxic77]

OH No! I've lost the ability to skip through commercials effectively. I never had a problem FF or Rew but now it takes a half second for PT to play after I hit these buttons. Now I connot blaze thru the commercials until I hear the bumper music. I find myself constantly over shooting where I want to be.

[marwatk]

I've lost the ability to skip through commercials effectively.

Hmm, now I have two conflicting requirements

The ability to seek a lot (pressing the buttons many times in a row), and the ability to seek accurately (where each seek actually affects the player).

Right now the delay for individual movements is 750ms, perhaps if I drop that a bit it could satisfy both?

Neuroxic, can you describe exactly how you go about skipping commercials generally?

-Marcus

[Neuroxic77]

When I want to skip commercials I will hit the Short FF button until I hear the bumper music. These were rapid skips 2-3 in a second. If I over shot I would use the 5sec rewind in the same manner.

I rarely used the long buttons unless I knew I had a lot to skip. I never experienced any problems using any of the buttons a lot and rapidly.

Dose this help?

I use PT all day long while I'm delivering pizzas. It was easy to skip around while driving. Now it feels laggy.

Thx again for the time and effort. I love using PT.
BTW. I maxed my data out last bill (5 gigs). The improved Desktop dldr really saved me. Thx for getting it stable

Ryan


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[ScanAmerica]

I prefer the previous seeking behavior as well. Maybe different keys could be used for the new seek behavior (A and Del?)

[ScanAmerica]

I've noticed that with the new seeking behavior that I sometimes accidentally skip forward in a podcast when I accidentally press P when pressing the "hang up" button to return to the BlackBerry home screen. I'm sure I've been hitting P by accident before but the affect wasn't as pronounced as before. I tend to hit the P by accident when pressing the "hang up" button due to the 8900's recessed call buttons.

[marwatk]

Yeah, I'll switch back to the old seek behavior for the next release (at least until I've got a workable better solution). Thanks for the input, guys.

-Marcus