Podcasts Support

[DominicMaas]

Contains current information about Podcast support. Podcast support will be available in the v20 update for SoundByte on Windows 10 , Xbox One and iOS

Status:

• Enforce the naming system: PodcastEpisode, PodcastShow. PodcastShow is similar to a track, PodcastEpisode is similar to a playlist.
• Add ability to discover podcasts in the core library (via the ITunes API)
• Expose this functionality to the content service on the Discover Podcasts page
• Build podcast UI detail page for iOS and UWP. List episodes via Soundbyte website (look into how this works with importing)
• Add ability for users to import custom podcast feeds within the apps (auto subscribes)
• Add ability to accept podcast feeds in the website
• Add ability to search for podcasts
• Setup a "health" page that shows the status of cached tracks and playlists (based on last update time)
• Setup a service that updates metadata for podcasts on a daily / weekly bases (also look into this for tracks / users, might be difficult because of external music provides)
• Setup web api that grabs podcasts from soundbyte id or podcast feed
• Add ability to subscribe / unsubscribe from podcasts in the web api
• Expose ability to subscribe and unsubscribe from podcasts in the app.
• Add podcast feed of episodes to listen to
• Add ability to see episodes within the app (the API can determine which episodes have been listened to if the user is logged in).
• Local fallback for listening to podcasts (both for updating when re-connected to the internet, and having the ability to subscribe and listen to podcasts without a soundbyte account)
• Add new history API that takes into account at what time the user stopped listening
• Add ability to like and comment on podcast shows (this will auto import the podcast into soundbyte)
• Add ability to manually download podcasts (premium - will have a free tier)
• Add ability to auto download podcasts when they come out (premium)
• More of a major app setting, adjust what main buttons appear on the app bar, and what screen to open first (this allows people to treat SoundByte as simply a podcast player).
• Import OPML / Export OPML
• Add ability to view downloaded podcasts
• Eventually move to a improved crawling system (expensive :/ ) that can crawl feeds more often, useful for server side notifications of new episodes eventually
• Add support for server side notifications

[DominicMaas]

Pending actions for database transfer script:

• Ensure track count is consistent between runs.
• Transfer OAuth information (apps, tokens etc.) - uses a different DB context.

[DominicMaas]

OAuth tokens could not be transferred. Users will have to log back into their SoundByte accounts.

Hard part done!

[DominicMaas]

This work is now pending iOS app beta completion. (UWP app will be rewritten to use new iOS services)

[watermarkhu]

Any updates?

[DominicMaas]

I’m currently working full time so no, not at the moment. I’m hoping to complete support during my Christmas break.

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[DominicMaas]

Most blockers are gone, pending iOS beta before starting work (iOS beta won't initially have podcast support)

[DominicMaas]

iOS alpha released. Spending the next week implementing some missing features. May initially add podcast search support as well.