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Kevlar

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once or twice a week now for the past few weeks, my LTB subscription in the iOS Podcasts app resets its played/unplayed state, such that up to the most recent 100 episodes are suddenly marked unplayed again. I need to manually go into the episode history and delete each one again, which is super frustrating. It's especially bad when i'm in the middle of an episode and the progress is lost, such that I need to try to find where it left off when this reset happens.

Another issue is that LTB#124 is not playable; i get a message saying that this episode is temporarily unavailable, and other shows on the main feed still work so it's not a network connectivity problem.

Not sure if anyone else is seeing this, but i thought i'd bring it up so that whomever is in charge of handling the podcast feed can figure out what might be wrong here.

Posted on July 8, 2014 at 3:37 PM
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• adam

  

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  @kevlar once or twice a week now for the past few weeks, my LTB subscription in the iOS Podcasts app resets its played/unplayed state, such that up to the most recent 100 episodes are suddenly marked unplayed again. I need to manually go into the episode history and delete each one again, which is super frustrating. It's especially bad when i'm in the middle of an episode and the progress is lost, such that I need to try to find where it left off when this reset happens.

  Another issue is that LTB#124 is not playable; i get a message saying that this episode is temporarily unavailable, and other shows on the main feed still work so it's not a network connectivity problem.

  Not sure if anyone else is seeing this, but i thought i'd bring it up so that whomever is in charge of handling the podcast feed can figure out what might be wrong here.

  Its not suprising your feed has been acting funny the last week, we are actively trying to resolve this problem and are attempting different hosting solutions. Its sorta ridiculous how big a problem this has become.

  @cryptonaut is on it, all further development is on hold until it is resolved so if you'd like to help us do that, it would be very helpful. Neither nick or myself use iOS devices, so its been more than a little difficult.

  Posted on July 8, 2014 at 3:49 PM
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• Cryptonaut

  

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  I believe I have ep #124 fixed, @Kevlar can you confirm? Getting todays episode up right away also and working on an overall solution :p

  Posted on July 8, 2014 at 7:24 PM
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• Doogy

  

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  @cryptonaut I believe I have ep #124 fixed, @Kevlar can you confirm? Getting todays episode up right away also and working on an overall solution :p

  I tried multiple times this morning on my way to work and it was not working. It is definitely fixed now though, I just pulled it up on my iphone.

  edit: let me know if/how I can help. I use an iphone.

  Posted on July 8, 2014 at 7:28 PM
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• Cryptonaut

  

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  @doogy

  @cryptonaut I believe I have ep #124 fixed, @Kevlar can you confirm? Getting todays episode up right away also and working on an overall solution :p

  I tried multiple times this morning on my way to work and it was not working. It is definitely fixed now though, I just pulled it up on my iphone.

  cool, thanks. now time to do some automated soundcloud to amazon CDN downloading!

  Posted on July 8, 2014 at 7:30 PM
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• Doogy

  

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  I knew I should've stuck with computer science at college :)

  Posted on July 8, 2014 at 7:32 PM
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• Kevlar

  

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  ep 124 is working now for me, thanks @cryptonaut!

  If the feed resetting problem happens again I can respond here. I'm happy to help in any way that I can, just let me know how :)

  Posted on July 8, 2014 at 7:51 PM
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• gaurand

  

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  Hey Adam, I wasn't able to play LTB podcast episodes for several weeks on my iPhone, but they appear to work again. Happy, as I was missing the shows! Hopefully this has been resolved for good. Thanks so much for working on this issue!

  Posted on July 15, 2014 at 7:28 AM
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• Cryptonaut

  

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  Awesome! Can anyone else confirm this is working right for them?

  Posted on July 15, 2014 at 7:35 AM
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• Kevlar

  

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  I haven't had any other listening issues since the last one was resolved. Yesterday though the feed did reset again and all episodes were marked unplayed. It wasn't a big deal this time since i remembered what episode i was on and wasn't in the middle of one, just thought i'd inform you guys if that info is useful in any capacity.

  Posted on July 15, 2014 at 10:28 AM
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• adam

  

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  @kevlar I haven't had any other listening issues since the last one was resolved. Yesterday though the feed did reset again and all episodes were marked unplayed. It wasn't a big deal this time since i remembered what episode i was on and wasn't in the middle of one, just thought i'd inform you guys if that info is useful in any capacity.

  Are you getting ALL the LTB network shows properly or just LTB the main show?

  Posted on July 15, 2014 at 10:42 AM
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