Antennapod: Podcast download notification persists indefinitely

[Forger125]

App version: 1.5.2.0 (from Google Play)

Android version: 6.0.1 (Stock unrooted)

Devide model: Nexus 6

Expected behaviour: Request refresh all feeds --> notification appears indicating synchronization status: downloading podcast data, processing downloads, complete --> notification disappears

Current behaviour: Request refresh all feeds --> notification appears indicating synchronization status: downloading podcast data, processing downloads --> notification does not progress past "Downloading podcast data: processing downloads", i.e. remains there indefinitely

• Notification only disappears if the app is Force Stopped through the settings menu (or if the device is powered off)
• Notification does not persist if only a single feed is refreshed (i.e. navigate to a single feed --> press refresh feed --> notification appears and disappears normally)

First occured: Version 1.5.1.4 (maybe??? either 1.5.1.4 or 1.5.2.0)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open AntennaPod
2. Navigate to "Episodes" section using menu
3. Press Refresh
4. Grab some popcorn and watch
5. Notification remains for minutes/hours/days

Environment: Nothing unusual. Happens regardless of devices connected, etc. Of note, gpodder.net sync has not worked for me at all. However, logging out of gpodder.net/disabling does not resolve the problem.

Stacktrace/Logcat: Nada. Sorry :/

[mfietz]

Can you check Downloads > Log?
My best guess: One of the feeds is messed up and throws a parser exception. (This should already be fixed, but is not yet released)

[Forger125]

Ah thank you for reminding me about the log section of Downloads. I refreshed all my feeds 2x just now. No error messages came up for either time, but the notification still persists (as one can see from the notification bar).

[mfietz]

Can you export your subscriptions and send the OPML file to Martin.Fietz at gmail.com ?

[mfietz]

Not enough information to debug this issue.

[jordanade]

I have this problem too. Will email my opml file

[dingens]

I have this problem, too.

I'd suggest another (maybe simpler?) solution: Don't show this notification at all. I don't see why this information is important. If there was an error, an error message should be displayed of course, but if all goes well, I don't need to know. What do you think?

[realuser]

+1 Also have this problem

[alexanderadam]

Is there any possibility to hide it in general?

[ByteHamster]

If you have Android 8 and the (not yet released) new version of AntennaPod, you can disable the notification

[alexanderadam]

Hi @ByteHamster, sounds awesome. Where can I find the setting in AntennaPod after the release?

[ByteHamster]

Android 8 allows to hide notifications directly from system settings, based on categories. We just added categories to AntennaPod ;)

[alexanderadam]

Ah, okay. I know the dialogue to remove _every_ notification and didn't know that there's also the possibility to remove them by category. Nice addition. :+1:

And thank you for answering!