GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 613948
Podcasts not visible on the iPod shuffle
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:49:57 UTC
A podcast dragged to an iPod Shuffle is not displayed when the Music tab under the device is selected. To reproduce this bug, do the following: 1. Obtain an iPod Shuffle and a podcast-capable device (I used an HTC Android Phone) and perform the basic tasks necessary to make the devices work with Banshee, including resetting device databases if necessary. Note that the iPod Shuffle has only a Music tab under it, while the other device has a Music tab and a Podcasts tab. 2. Copy a single episode from an audio-only podcast (I used http://feeds.feedburner.com/QotdAt8Wpm) to each device. Note the podcast-capable device has a '1' associated with the Podcasts tab, but there has been no visible change to the iPod Shuffle. 3. Remove the iPod Shuffle and install headphones. Press play on the device and observe that the episode was written to the device successfully and is playable on the device. Banshee treats podcasts differently than songs in the library and on devices. Items copied from the Podcasts tab in the library show up under the Podcasts tab for the device. The iPod Shuffle does not report 'podcast' as an Extra Capability according to podsleuth and I suspect that is why Banshee does not show a Podcasts tab under the device. However, Banshee has no problem copying the audio-only podcast episode to the device. Banshee should make the podcast episode visible to the user so the user can play and delete the episode. I lean towards using a Podcasts tab for the episode to maintain consistency, but I can see arguments for and against that approach.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.