General Issues
- You really need to describe what the various functionality is supposed to do. We could guess but that'd be just a guess. You need to explain what things like "Refresh Feed" is supposed to do so we can test it and tell you if it is doing what it's advertised to do!
- You should establish a direct communication mechanism between the beta testers and the developers such that the developer can describe the new functionality added for this beta, how it is intended to work, etc. such that the beta tester can test it and give feedback directly to the developer about what he developed.
- Podcast episodes need a meaningful pop up menu that include such entries as:
- Queue
- Download (this episode)
- Mark episode read (This will remove the episode from the queue WRT this podcast feed and remove any downloaded files that represent this episode.
- Information about this episode
- Podcast episodes should allow the user to select them and after selected they should scroll to the left/right much like they already do when they are added to the Now Playing list. Having 10 episodes that say "(May not play) Money Markets &..." for my Money, Markets and More podcast does not tell me what episodes these are because the identifying data - i.e. the date of this episode - has been truncated.
- You need to explain if it PP or the podcast feed that is adding the "(May not play)" text and what exactly does that text mean!
- What does "Refresh Feed" do?
- What does "Unsubscribe/Subscribe" do?
- What does the eight note icon in the podcast listing mean? Does it mean that this episode is downloaded?
- What does the little "emblems" mean that sometimes appear on the blue podcast icon that resemble a check mark and/or a ying/yang like upload/download symbol much like the ActiveSync icon itself.
- What are the CD icon things listed at the podcasts menu? I used to think that they represented podcasts that were downloaded but they don't seem to be anymore. I have one, for example, that says "Playlists (Internal Storage)" that when selected shows a world type icon with an orange RSS feed like emblem that says "New Podcasts". Now "New Podcasts" is a playlist of mine but what is it doing here?
- I still am not able to achieve my main goal WRT listening to podcasts and that is to quickly and easily identify new podcasts only. I would like an auto playlist which has just those new podcasts episodes since the last time I listened to podcasts. As I listen to a podcast it ages off my auto playlist and off my phone (if downloaded).
- When I go to a podcast episode listing, I don't want to see any episodes that I've listened too before.
- Describe what "Bandwidth saver" is.
- If I toggle Sort by Newest off then go to a podcast and select it, it never finishes displaying that podcasts. IOW Sort by Newest is broken!
- I still can't seem to get podcasts to download when I want them to, which is why I want the power to dictate that I want to download this podcast now. That said, I don't see the "When new episodes are available: Download the most recent one" working at all. It's been a few days. New podcast episodes have been released. My Linux system (rhythmbox) senses and download these new podcast episodes without a hitch - Pocket player, however, fails to.
Here's my list of podcasts:
- Security Now http://www.leoville.tv/podcasts/sn.xml
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe http://www.theskepticsguide.org/feed/rss.aspx?feed=SGU
- The Skeptics' Guide 5x5 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/feed/rss.aspx?feed=5x5
- Windows Weekly http://www.leoville.tv/podcasts/ww.xml
- Floss Weekly http://www.leoville.tv/podcasts/floss.xml
- Skeptoid http://skeptoid.com/podcast.xml
- Bill Maher's Realtime http://www.hbo.com/podcasts/billmaher/podcast.xml
- Perlcast http://www.perlcast.com/rss/current.xml
- Money, Markets and more http://feeds.marketwatch.com/marketwatch/podcasts/moneymarketsmore
- Take on Tech http://feeds.marketwatch.com/marketwatch/podcasts/takeontech
- Stand Up Comedy http://www.hbo.com/podcasts/standup/podcast.xml
- Legal Lad's Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Lawful Life http://www.qdnow.com/legal.xml
- Litigation Podcast http://www.abanet.org/litigation/podcast/podcast.xml
- NOVA scienceNOW Podcast http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/wgbh/nova/nsn-audio
- The Atheist Experience http://www.atheist-experience.com/podcast.php
- Atheist Talk - Audio http://www.mnatheists.org/atheist_talk/audio.xml
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