Hope Pocket Casts will prioritize using the local cache when displaying podcast
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If I understand correctly, the process by which Pocket Casts displays podcast covers should be as follows: First, it retrieves the podcasts the user follows, downloads cover images from those podcasts’ RSS feeds to Pocket Casts’ own servers, and finally sends the corresponding images to the user’s app.
Unfortunately, users in mainland China find it difficult to access Pocket Casts’ servers without a VPN. Even if users can successfully download podcast audio from the RSS feeds they subscribe to, the app is unable to display podcast and episode covers properly. Although refreshing the podcast list after enabling a VPN allows the covers to display properly, if the VPN is turned off (since many RSS feeds hosted on servers in mainland China load faster without a VPN) and the list is refreshed again, the podcast and episode covers will disappear because the app cannot access Pocket Casts’ servers.
Perhaps a solution could be this: After Pocket Casts sends podcast and episode covers to the user’s app, as long as the user hasn’t manually clicked “Refresh All Podcast Artwork” , the app should not delete the local cover cache when the user refreshes the podcast list until the covers have been successfully downloaded.
(The above content was translated from Chinese by DeepL.)
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