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[MichaelApproved]

Originally Posted by Piscean

Version 2016.12.27
Fixes the playback speed issue! Good job!

Hot damn! That's awesome Thanks for working with me while I got that figured out.

Originally Posted by Piscean

One thing I notice, which would only show up during a holiday. For the last week and a half, there have been free VIP shows in the main feed. The app doesn't show those. And if you go to the specific VIP feed, you can't download the show which is free in the main feed. (Danny's 12.22 show, for instance.)

That's a larger problem for our infrastructure. The main feed gets content from the main show and I added code that allows it to pipe in special shows, when needed.

Plus, in the holiday example, we have the VIP episodes with special bumpers that Keith and Chemda added to them. Because of those bumpers, it wouldn't make sense to make the VIP episode free because the bumper changes the content.

The app has the shows segmented and each of them follow a numbering system. It becomes harder to slip a few extra episodes into the KATG list because of that.

In the long run, I think we'll have a "specials" high-level item that appears during holiday breaks. We can have it show up first in the list and put the special shows in there.

[Piscean]

Version 2016.12.27

Live Show bug.

When there is a live show going on, go to the Live show tab.

Click Stream Audio. Audio streams beautifully.

Click Watch Video. That takes you to a small video player where you can watch the live feed.

Click Close in the Video Player. That takes you back to the Live show tab. Now the top entry in the list is "Stream Audio >". But nothing is playing.

If you click Stream Audio, it changes to a square instead of the Play symbol after the "Stream Audio" text.

Regardless of how many times you press "Stream Audio", it never plays again until you kill the app and start fresh.

[Piscean]

Version 2016.12.27

Live Show Video bug.

While there is a live show going on, click on the Live show tab.

Click Watch Video. That takes you to the streaming video page.

Click Start to start the video.

Click the Back button on your phone to go back to the main Live show page.

At this point you have Live video streaming to the phone, but there's no way to get back to it to watch it. The back arrow took you back to the Live show tab on the KATG app. If you press Watch Video, it launches a second instance of the video playback. If you press play, you can hear them both streaming slightly out of sync.

If you bring up the list of running apps, you see the KATG app, but not a separate app for the video stream.

The only way to fix this is to kill the app and start over.

[Piscean]

Originally Posted by Piscean

Version 2016.12.27

Live Show bug.

When there is a live show going on, go to the Live show tab.

Click Stream Audio. Audio streams beautifully.

Click Watch Video. That takes you to a small video player where you can watch the live feed.

Click Close in the Video Player. That takes you back to the Live show tab. Now the top entry in the list is "Stream Audio >". But nothing is playing.

If you click Stream Audio, it changes to a square instead of the Play symbol after the "Stream Audio" text.

Regardless of how many times you press "Stream Audio", it never plays again until you kill the app and start fresh.

Actually, this repro can be simplified.
1. Click "Stream Audio >".
2. After it streams for a few seconds, click Stream Audio to stop streaming
--> Now you can't restart if you click "Stream Audio >" again.

[MichaelApproved]

I'm not sure what's causing the live audio stream bug. There might be a problem with how we're stopping the stream but I haven't found it yet. I'll keep looking into it.

[MichaelApproved]

I submitted the app to the Play store. I'm waiting on their approval now. We're trying to resolve an issue with the content rating, so it'll take a few days.

Meanwhile, here's the build that I'm publishing https://www.dropbox.com/sh/boccr2p75...GA4vx9PTa?dl=0

[Todd]

Google Play issue:

When I went to get the app by searching for "keith and the girl", the version that shows up first in results is version 1.0-beta-2.2 (Oct 27, 2014 update). I didn't notice this at first and wondered why I couldn't tell it my VIP ID.

Version 2017.1.17 doesn't even appear on the list until a little farther down, so I didn't know there were two versions until I poked around a bit.

Obviously this isn't a problem if smart people use a direct link. But if you need to troubleshoot, be aware that people may have grabbed the beta by mistake.

[Piscean]

I just searched for KATG and Version 2017.1.17 shows up 2nd in a list of 3. The old 2014 app is still first in the list. How do you get old apps removed? Does the original author need to do that?

[MichaelApproved]

Thanks for the reminder about the old app. I removed it from the store.

I also just published an app update that allows you to watch VIP videos from the app.

It's version 2017.01.24 and should already be published in the store.

Get it here: https://katg.com/app/android