on leaving wifi range audio stops

[gerry kk]

on leaving wifi [from either work or home] the audio stops.

this is for podcast's that have been fully downloaded before hand.

cam fix this by switching wifi off then restarting play of the podcast.

can reproduce this every time, just double checked when i went to the shops after dinner.

to test. download any podcast. start playing. walk out of wifi range. audio stops. happens every time.

all the best,
gerry

[gerry kk (panty1985)]

hey since the last update this doesn't happen anymore so i think this has fixed itself, although it appears as though it only happens to me anyways.
regards
gerry

[Rick Timmis (rick-timmis)]

Hey Gerry

Er No and No..

It has taken me ages to get my head around the behaviour of Podbird. My listening habits are 50/50

50% at home around the house connected fully to WiFi.
50% walking my daughter to school

It is the above the left me thinking the problem I was experiencing was just totally Random, but it is not. Here is how my BQ Aquarius is behaving when out and about..

I leave the house, and begin my Walk, sometime not every time, but pretty frequently once I go out of range of the home WiFi the Podbird stops playing. To get it to start playing again requires me to reboot the phone and start Podbird and the Podcast playing again..

The other place where this happens is about half way from home, which seemed so random. The I realised / remembered that on my old Android phone that place in the street, if I was in a phone call often the call would be dropped. I believe that this is because my GSM network providers masts have a zone overlap there, and the device switches from one network source to another..

The result Podbird stops playing and I have to reboot. Most frustratingly, this reboot does not always guarantee success, as sometimes even after the reboot Podbird simply will not play..

I eventually summised that this issue must have some relationship to the network switching, and I began looking for something similar on launchpad, and found this Bug.

I believe what's needed is for a few others to test this by using Podbird whilst out and about :-)

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

I suspect this might be a system issue rather than something limited to Podbird. Check out https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1558840.

[Rick Timmis (rick-timmis)]

Hi I am using podbird devel am currently on ubuntu 15.04 (OTA 10.1)

Symptoms are the same as above. Here are my tests

Walk to school bus about 1km several Wifi ap on route, podcast already fully downloaded, so playback should be from memory.
Audio stops for 30 seconds to 2 minutes then continues, or stops completely oftem the only way to fix it is a device restart.

Second test
Same as above, but with Wifi switched off, problem has not occured

Third test
Working all day in garden Wifi on, podcast playback all works.

It seems that the system problem you mentioned could be responsible, but why does this impact fully downloaded episodes.

I download beforey walk to try to avoid this issue, and O will further test over the next week woth wifi off to check the the symptoms have gone.

[citizendelta (dghallau)]

I think this has to do with where play of the podcast episode is initiated.

In other words, if play is initiated from the `Episodes` screen, then the podcast is streamed from wifi or network data, _even if the podcast is already downloaded locally_.

If you initiate play of the podcast episode via the `Downloaded` menu of the Podcast screen (via Menu--> `Podcasts`--> then select the podcast show, then click on `Downloaded`) by clicking on one of the episodes listed there, then the podcast episode is played from the downloaded copy rather than streamed.

At least that has been my experience on my Nexus 4, Ubuntu 15.04 r47, Podbird v0.8.

I do think this merits the "bug" label, because it would make more sense that if an episode is downloaded, then Podbird should preferentially always play the downloaded copy rather than streaming episodes via wifi or data network, which can lead to unwittingly incurring data charges from a mobile carrier.