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Thecubed : because it was fixed in our trunk, beta8 still the only available one, I forgot to put (fixed on our development trunk) sorry,.

The remedy : press the screen button or... invert the sequence. Pause before unlocking if you want it playing and vice versa..

Thanks for the nice words!

Marcelo

I brought this up previously, then I said it seemed to have fixed itself. But it hasn't. It turns out that I don't even have to turn off my N800.

If I simply close Canola and go offline (simply by leaving where my wifi connection is), when I launch Canola again, some of the already-downloaded podcasts do not show as bold and will not play. Others do still show as bold. If anything, it is the more recently downloaded ones that disappear. Then, as soon as I have wifi, if it hit the download arrow, they immediately show up as fully downloaded and playable.

Actually, I just tested it again, and even if I continuously have wifi, when I re-launch Canola, the podcast I had been listening to and had paused, does not show up bold.

The effect of this is pretty serious in that it means I can't reliably download a podcast and then listen to it without wifi available ... which is sort of the point of a podcast.

Hi, Marcelo!

I'm not sure what you mean by the "save position for podcast." There is Pause. If I use Pause and I don't close Canola, I can come back to where I was. But if I close Canola, let alone turn off the tablet, the podcast starts from the beginning. Is there some way other than just Pause that saves the position? I don't see it in the manual.

I can understand bookmarks not being very high priority, but a Save-Position-and-Resume function, which works even if the tablet has been turned off, and can work for multiple files, seems pretty close to indispensable. (When I say "can work for multiple files," what I mean is that I ought to be able to listen to Podcast A for 5 minutes, then Podcast B for 5 minutes, then Podcast C or YouTube video D, and still be able to go back to A or B and not have to start from the beginning.)

Also, in the Podcast listings, can Info be made to work even for a Podcast that is not currently playing or even downloaded? Most my podcasts have a Title and then an Info line. On the Canola screen that lists a feed's podcasts, it will show the beginning of that Info line. So even before being downloaded, Canola has already acquired all the information in that Info line, it just isn't displaying all of it. It does display all of it when a podcast is playing and you click Info in the menu. It would be very useful if you could click Info in the menu and get the entirety of the Info for a Podcast that is selected in the list though not yet downloaded.

As long as we're talking about Podcasts:

I have a 770 with OS2006. I began having problems with Canola 2 beta 8 after my usual MMC card became corrupted and I had to switch to another MMC card I had, although I don't know what this would have to do with Canola going bad.

Anyway, here's what's happening:

Oftentimes, when Canola tries to launch, it will go to an endless "updating media library". I have to use a StatusBar app to "kill process" in order to shut down Canola.

Even with a fresh install of Canola (after using Canola Clean-up), Canola will sporatically run VERY sluggishly. Click a button....wait 5-10 seconds, click a button...wait etc. Many times it will just hang and I have to "kill process" to shut Canola down. Only other processes running are the Google search applet on desktop, simple launcher, and Osso-Statusbar-CPU.

As far as Podcasts go:

After clicking "my feeds" and waiting a long time for the little 'C' shaped animation at the bottom to finish turning, I click a download arrow on the right. Nothing happens for a while. Eventually, a download begins to SLOWLY happen. Then as the download nears 100%, Canola freezes and reboots my 770. Upon reopening Canola, I have to try and download the podcast all over again. If the download does finish w/o a reboot, clicking to listen to download causes the 'C' to spin again, then stop with all zeros displayed for length of podcast and elapsed time. The tablet freezes up and I have to "kill process" with the statusbar app. Sometimes I get a sort of "split screen" effect where a portion of the right side of the Canola screen is duplicated followed by an auto reboot.

I have used cleanup to delete and reinstalled Canola 3-4 times (after I disabled all repositories except Maemo and Maemo Extras as Handful recommended)...still the same problems.

Help!
thanks,
Neil

@geraldKO for sure is indispensable, but we are overloaded, and the main problem is: podcast has only one person, and we still have problems with basic stuff in podcast which is indeed higher than the bookmark.

But I will try to rush this in beta10. Beta9 is already frozen.

Marcelo

So when is Beta 9 due for release??? I'm dying for it!

well it's out!!