New version tweaked what happens when removing a podcast. It knows offer you to archive (default) or delete. To archive means you won’t lost your stats, what episodes you listened, …
I played a little bit with it and clearly I believe it is a much bigger feature that’s what it looks like! Not only it’s really nice to not lose what you played (I can at least remove some podcast easily) but it also allow to stash podcasts I started to listen but paused for future listening. I won’t be bothered anymore with their new episodes info and once I will be ready to resume it’s easy to unarchive.
Sure I could have already done that manually before, but even though I am not a computer / Android basic user doing it manually was more annoying than letting finished and paused podcasts alone.
To nitpick I would say that it should have been added to navigation items. Right now you access it via subscriptions (and that should not change) but also being able to access it directly like any other screen would be nice to be able to.
Anyway big thanks for implementing it. IMHO it really makes AntennaPod user workflow better.
Yes, the archive/delete episodes is a very good thing. However, in my humbling opinion the biggest feature of v. 3.10.0 is the smart searching of new episodes.
The smart searching is not in there yet. It only contains the detection of the release schedule (and some preparation for the searching) but not the actual searching yet.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the app “checking time”. In fact it is working in a way I love it would happen.
It refreshes not that often, don’t know, maybe once every couple of hours and with a couple of podcasts which new episodes should be in time to come out .
I don’t know if my words help. You may ask anyway.
If there’s something I wish AntennaPod do is live notifications (call it smart, not the same, but it’s closed to what I wish) and it is closer to that in ….10 release.
Hmm then it’s actually not a good sign. Sync was not supposed to change. If it changed now, something is likely broken. Even if you feel like it might be better, this is very unexpected and should not happen. So can you describe in more detail what changed for you?
Let’s see, I’ll try to be as explicit as possible.
Right now, I have the app set up to refresh podcasts every 8 hours. At that point, all the podcasts refresh, and if there’s a new episode, it notifies me, just as it does in previous versions and also in the current version.
What’s new I’m seeing is that from time to time, the app refreshes a couple of episodes or three (this is just an example) at random. Out of pure curiosity, I go to the profile for those podcasts and see that it’s already set to publish new episodes… it’s even notified me of some new episodes before the next 8 hours have arrived to refresh all the podcasts.
Anyway, sometimes it takes, let’s say, one podcast that is not on time yet.
Ah, thanks. That sounds like it might be okay. The change in 3.10.0 is that it refreshes different podcasts at different times instead of all at once. This is to enable the Android system to be a bit more flexible in how much work it can do at what time. Each individual podcast should however still be refreshed at the rate that’s in the settings. Does it feel like it refreshes more often than what is set in the settings? Or just at different times?