Version 1.1.1091 released

Posted Fri, 01/08/2010 - 23:44 by eric

A new release has just been published to the market.

This release is focused around splitting the audio playlists away from the news/video.

There are also some minor changes bug fixes.

  • 0000075: [Playlists] Add a time ordered playlist (no grouping) - closed.
  • 0000313: [News Reader] Improved display of news items - closed.
  • 0000328: [Miscellaneous] Place icons on each screen header (with similar size/style) to help from getting lost - closed.
  • 0000312: [Playlists] Separate audio playlists from new/video - closed.
  • 0000301: [Player/Media] Add playlist for virtual feeds - closed.
  • 0000344: [Miscellaneous] Reduce number of duplicates in DoggCatcher search results - closed.
  • 0000340: [Miscellaneous] Change queue menu item to read 'Download Queue' - closed.
  • 0000341: [Miscellaneous] Add playlist to menu - closed.
  • 0000339: [Feeds/Items] Display a text header above items for feeds that have no thumbnail icon - closed.
  • 0000338: [Miscellaneous] Should not log nulls when sorting feeds with null item pub dates - closed.
  • 0000333: [Miscellaneous] SnoggDogg background greys out when scrolling on add feeds screen - closed.
  • 0000290: [Feeds/Items] Add multiple keyword search to doggcatcher search - closed.
  • 0000327: [Feeds/Items] When deleting a feed, display the feed title in the confirmation - closed.
  • 0000322: [Feeds/Items] Item compression - advanced, please don't use this unless you are working with support - closed.
  • 0000049: [Miscellaneous] Ability to exit the application - closed.
  • 0000319: [News Reader] Display feed title on view item screen when using feed that has no icon - closed.
  • 0000314: [News Reader] Auto scroll news in item list view to oldest item flagged as new (this is where you would start reading) - closed.
  • 0000123: [Playlists] Ability to exclude feed from being included in playlist (done by separating virtual to their own playlist) - closed.
  • 0000288: [Bug] DoggCatcher feed search - support searches with apostrophes - closed.
  • 0000326: [Bug] When adding a feed from search, recommendations, top or popular, all items except the first should be marked as Done - closed.
  • 0000348: [Bug] Crash when editing a feed's options, rotating the display, then saving it - closed.
  • 0000332: [Bug (beta only)] Crash when scrolling playlist and item finished downloading in the background (beta only) - closed.
  • 0000337: [Bug (beta only)] Crash updating feeds when using "Sorted by Date" playlist - closed.
  • 0000334: [Bug (beta only)] Crash returning from meridian player - closed.

Comments

Playlist date sort

by jkarp - 01/19/2010 - 12:05

Thanks for tackling 0000075! I was finally able to ditch the yahoo pipe and put all my 'casts directly into DC. The date sort doesn't seem to "stick" between DC startups, however. If I don't go into the playlist and re-sort by date each time, at the end of the current podcast, DC seems to pick something else further down the list than the next chronological entry.

Date sort STILL maddingly buggy

by jkarp - 03/03/2010 - 12:31

Eric, any updates on getting the date sort stabilized? It's still a real crapshoot.

From what I've observed since 1091, it appears the actual sorting depends on the little field below the episode title that says "xx days ago". Only thing is, that data appears and disappears randomly. When it's not there, the sort by date scatters these episodes randomly throughout the playlist.

If I repeatedly update feeds a couple times after NO new items are downloaded it seems like most items get the "xx days ago" data. Sometimes however between feed updates (I have my update interval set to never) this data gets lost and the playlist is useless again.

Initially I thought it was just DC not handling my backlog well (I had about 100 items across a dozen casts), but I'm down to under 40 now and it's still flaky.

Help me Obi-Wan, You're my only hope!

Date sort

by eric - 03/04/2010 - 00:30

You're right about the sort. It is dependent on those dates, and they don't get loaded when the app starts because it adds a 3-4 second delay, so that sort could potentially be wrong during that time...and it sounds like other times as well.

Can you do me a favor and change the sort to feed/date, then back to date, and then send me the log (assuming it's not properly sorted at that point).

Thanks.

log sent this morning

by jkarp - 03/05/2010 - 12:20

OK, it did it. Yesterday, ALL items in my playlist had the datestamp displayed.

This morning I powered up my phone, hopped in the car, started DC and hit play (no feed updates have occurred since last DC use). It resumed the previous 'cast as expected. After it ended, I realized it did NOT play the next item in date order. I opened the playlist and sure enough, lots of items with no datestamp. I sorted to feed/date and back to date, then sent the log to ya.

Hope this helps!

Date sort

by eric - 03/05/2010 - 23:29

That's critical information about the items missing their timestamp. That means that when the app started and those dates were initialized, something went wrong and they will not sort correctly after that.

Unfortunately whatever happened occurred earlier than the log covers, but just knowing where the problem occurred is really helpful.

I'll take a look and see what I can do. It might help if I had your database, can you do a backup and email me the "rss" file in /sdcard/doggcatcher/export/databases? It might be triggered by having a lot of items in the playlist, I noticed you had over 40.

I just created another issue for this - http://mantis.snoggdoggler.com/view.php?id=430

If you do happen to notice the dates missing at least 10 seconds after you start the app (but still within a 10 minutes from starting it, when the logs roll over), please do send the log then. That is very likely to contain an error message.

Thanks for the help.

My feeds are in a bizarre

by Javaslinger - 03/03/2010 - 13:01

My feeds are in a bizarre order as well...

Feed order

by eric - 03/04/2010 - 00:31

The feeds are in the order that they were created. You can change the order in the feed context menu, with the move command.

Confirmed and fixes

by eric - 01/26/2010 - 23:45

Yup, the playlist was not getting calculated when the app started so you had to go to the playlist screen to get it fired up.

It's fixed and will be in the release after next.

Thanks for reporting the problem.

Playlist date sort

by eric - 01/19/2010 - 22:45

Thanks for reporting this. I think it might be related to what some others reported as the sort being upside down.

I created an issue for this - http://mantis.snoggdoggler.com/view.php?id=385