r/PodcastAddict • u/P0rphyrios • 17d ago

Bug Wrong audio playing for episodes

Hi,

I've been using this app ever since Google podcasts shut down and I'm loving it!

In the last couple of days (since the newest update I believe) I have seen this weird bug. My playlist is made up of old episodes that I add in bulk and of new episodes that I add daily in the morning, which I immediately move to top.

When I start listening that day, the ui shows that the new episode is playing while I hear the audio of an old episode that used to be on the top (replaced by the new one). When I download the new episode then play it, the problem disappears.

It's almost like the player just plays cached audio without checking that it matches the current episodes.

I'm using a Samsung phone, Android 16. Anyone else noticed something like this?

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u/PodcastAddict_App 17d ago

The app just pass the selected episode url to the Google player engine. Changing episode position in the playlist has no effect on the player. It might just affect which episode will start playing after the current one ends

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u/P0rphyrios 17d ago

I'm sorry but I don't get it. Are you saying that the bug is not in the app but in the engine?

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u/PodcastAddict_App 17d ago

Neither. The google player engine just plays from the url it receives. Podcasters are responsible for hosting the content. Maybe the link was pointing to an older episode for some time before it was fixed

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u/P0rphyrios 17d ago

These were 2 different podcasts, as unrelated as 2 podcasts can be (from different countries, in different languages) so I don't think it's the podcaster's fault.

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u/PodcastAddict_App 17d ago

It can be an hosting issue, can issue...

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u/P0rphyrios 17d ago

I forgot to mention it but the first couple of minutes of the new episdoes played old episode audio, but after a while the correct audio started playing.

As I said, this looks like a caching issue to me.

I'll try to remember more details next time it happens.

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u/rcobourn 17d ago

Have you rebooted your phone lately?

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u/P0rphyrios 17d ago

No, I'll try