6.14.4

• a new speedometer on the player UI
• adjusted padding in advanced options in OnlineSearch view
• in episode lists, added view count (newly introduced, available in newly subscribed Youtube contents)
• amended episode lists layout
  • playState marking on the image is removed
  • title is at the top and takes full length to the right of the image
  • the action button (play/pause etc) is at the lower right corner and may overlay on other text if any
• colored some actionable icons
• created a new layout for FeedEpsiodes with a larger image, more suitable for video contents
• in feed settings created useWideLayout for choosing the desired layout
• reworked speed setting dialogs in Compose and removed unused old codes

6.14.3

• fixed crash when constructing TTS
• enhanced some TTS handlings including getting the duration after TTS audio is constructed
• issue: some shared playlists from YT Music are circular
  • getting mostly duplicates of over 2000 episodes when subscribed
  • checking on unique url seems to miss some episodes
• Tags setting and AutoDownload filer dialogs are in Compose

6.14.2

• in feed settings, added audio type setting (Speech, Music, Movie) for improved audio processing from media3
• improved the behavior of the cast player in the Play app
  • casting youtube audio appears working fine

6.14.1

• changed the term "virtual queue" to "natural queue" in the literature to refer to the list of episodes in a given feed
• ignore updating episodes with duration of less than 1 second
• start using Podcini's own cast provider in the play app
  • audio-only youtube media can now be cast to speaker (experimental for now)
  • cast of any video is disabled for now
• OnlineSearch fragment is in Compose
• minor Compose amendments in fragments of Search, About
• updates in documents of required licenses

6.14.0

• fixed crash when adding podcast (introduced since 6.13.11)
• naming changes in PlayState: InQueue -> Queue, InProgress -> Progress
• PlayState Queue is user settable, once set, the episode is put to associated queue of the feed
• in getting next to play in a virtual queue, PlayStates Again and Forever are included
• fixed the not-updating queue and tag spinners in Subscriptions
• various dates display are in flex format
• in Statistics, data for today are shown in the HH:mm format
• added view count for Youtube and YT Music media
• reworked episodes sort routines in Compose
• re-colored border color for Compose dialogs
• changed sort items' direction icon
• QuickDiscovery fragment is in Compose

6.13.11

• created private shared preferences for Subscriptions view and moved related properties there from the apps prefs
• persisted settings of tag spinner and queue spinner in Subscriptions view
• fixed again the incorrect initial text on Spinner in Queues view
• save played duration and time spent when playback of an episode is completed
• some code cleaning and restructuring
• gradle update

6.13.10

• fixed Spinner in Subscriptions: All tags vs Untagged irregularity
• fixed video mode setting not available in first created synthetic feed
• created a new dialog to rename or create synthetic feed
• in Subscriptions menu, "New synthetic Youtube" is merged into "New synthetic feed"
• removed "Switch queue" option from all menus (not necessary)
• fixed Spinner in Queues: default text not updating
• fixed menu in Statistics
• corrected duration and timeSpent numbers for today in Statistics
• added a Statistics section in README.md
• added "Never ask again" in dialog for unrestricted background permission
• various prefs accesses are made lazy
• build apk dropped to target Android 14 due to some reported issued with Android 15.

6.13.9

• made Spinner in Queues view update accordingly
• if playing from the virtual queue in FeedEpisodes, the next episode comes from the filtered list
• when playing another media, post playback routine is performed on the current media so as to set the right state
• fixed timeSpent not being correctly recorded
• further enhanced efficiency of statistics calculations
  • in Statistics, feeds with no media started or downloaded are not shown
• furthered Statistics view into Compose
• added online homepage item in Settings->About to open the Github page

6.13.8

• Subscriptions sorting added the negative sides of downloaded and commented
• added border to Compose dialogs
• in EpisodeMedia added timeSpent to measure the actual time spent playing the episode
  • upon migration, it's set the same as playedDuration, but it will get its own value when any episode is played
• redid and enhanced Statistics, it's in Compose
  • pie chart is replaced with line chart
  • in Subscriptions, in the header and every feed, added timeSpent
  • in Subscriptions header, added usage of today
  • on the popup of a feed statistics, also added "duration of all started"
  • the "Years" tab is now "Months", showing played time for every month, and added timeSpent for every month
• enhanced efficiency of getting statistics for single feed
• in FeedInfo details, added "view statistics of this feed" together with "view statistics of all feeds"

6.13.7

• likely fixed getting duplicate episodes on updates (youtube feeds)
• in Queues view, set the spinner default to the active queue
• an all new sorting dialog and mechanism for Subscriptions
• removed subscriptions sort order in Settings
• set PlayerUI position on start play
• large number of unused string resources are cleaned out