Podcasts: interrupted downloads cannot be completed, deleted downloads canot be reloaded
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Rhythmbox |
Expired
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Wishlist
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rhythmbox (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: rhythmbox
If episodes are ever del
I can erase downloaded podcasts, and these options are offered:
* Delete the _reference_ to the podcast, but keep the sound file
* Delete both the reference and the sound file.
The problems I find with this are:
1) The words describing the choice are very badly chosen, what is being offered is far from obvious.
2) Incomplete downloads cannot be completed or reloaded.
3) With the first option, a sound file will remain hidden somewhere in the file system that Rhythmbox will not show or play (which I find it far from useful).
4) With the second option, both the reference and the soundfile will be gone, but with no way to ever reload them beyond deleting _all_ the episodes in that podcast, unsubscribing, resubscribing, and downloading again all the episodes of interest -- if still available.
Solution:
* The first option should be dismissed, as it's purpose is really confusing.
* The option to delete both the soundfile and the reference should be clearly described.
* An option to only delete the sound file while keeping the reference should be offered in the episode context menu.
* An option to reload the episode list should be offered in the podcast context menu.
* If someone wants to keep the files but not the references, he or she can already drag them into a folder in Nautilus.
This covers all use cases, would permit freeing storage space while allowing reloading discarded episodes or incomplete downloads.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 31 17:22:26 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic x86_64
Changed in rhythmbox: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in rhythmbox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in rhythmbox: | |
status: | New → Expired |
thank you for your bug report. could you describe easy steps to trigger the bug? the description is not really clear. could you also report the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org directly since that seems to be an upstream issue and you know how to trigger the bug so you can reply to their comments