GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 610021
Podcasts Do Not Remember Playback Positions
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:51:31 UTC
When listening to a podcast (potentially any media in Banshee), if I pause my playback, listen to something else, and then resume playback on the podcast the podcast starts at the beginning of the file. Banshee should remember the playback position for (at a minimum) audiobooks, podcasts and video files. Thanks.
*** Bug 405452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I second this and was just about to report this problem when I saw this bug. Currently I maintain a text file where I have to manually type in the positions of where I was in the podcast and then make manual adjustments when I come back to them. It would be great if this feature were added.
Yes please! Absolute crucial feature.
Hi guys, I fourth this proposal. It would be so greatly appreciated if Banshee could remember the playback position of podcasts (and also audiobooks, videos). Rhythmbox doesn't have this feature either, and this lack of functionality compared to iTunes is pretty embarrassing if we're being honest. Like Paul, I have a post-it that I have to manually update when pausing a podcast. This feature is a given on iTunes, and I can't understand why it can't be implemented on an Ubuntu media player. I can see that the last time this was requested was Nov 2011. Does anyone have an update on when this could possibly be included? Best regards, Ryan.
*** Bug 696616 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As noted in the duplicate above, you can use the Bookmark feature (in Tools > Bookmark) to have Banshee remember a position in a Podcast, and later go to that position. But this could probably be improved, maybe doing it automatically, like it is now done for Audiobooks.
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 Its codebase has been archived.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.