Store more meta data with Bookmarks

  • Unknown's avatar
    cdeutsch · Member ·

    I use Listenbox to send YouTube videos to Pocket Casts. If I bookmark an episode and later remove it from my playlist there is no useful meta data left in the Bookmarks screen to figure out what video the bookmark was for.

    It’d be nice if Bookmarks at least saved the video title.

  • staff-cara · Staff ·

    Hi, @cdeutsch! Can you let us know where you’re experiencing this behavior? Is it on the Android app or the iOS app? Or is it maybe on the web and desktop app?

    Please also share the app version you’re running so we can test the expected behavior. If you want to share an example video episode you’ve experienced the issue with, that would be very helpful too:

    Sharing Podcasts, Episodes, and Clips
  • Unknown's avatar
    cdeutsch · Member ·

    @staff-cara I created the bookmarks on Android on a Pixel 8. I’m currently using v7.72 (9270)

    When I view the bookmarks. It just shows the Bookmark title and time (and sometimes the thumbnail is still cached). There is no other usable information to figure out which episode/video it came from. This happens in Android, web, and Mac app.

    The episode/video is no longer in the feed it came from (root issue), so my suggestion of a workaround is to maybe save the episode/video title at a minimum so I could try figure out where it came from.

    I still have at least one bookmark in this state if you want to take a look.

  • staff-frank · Staff ·

    Bookmarks appear to be saving the video title. I am attaching a screenshot of a bookmark I created for this video: https://listenbox.app/i/KCk2GY9lySf0

    If you still have trouble with your bookmark, can you share it with us along with the original video link?

  • Unknown's avatar
    cdeutsch · Member ·

    @staff-frank yes, they show up normally, but did you remove those episodes from their RSS feed and see what happens?

    Once you remove an episode from the RSS feed, it’s just a timestamp and bookmark title left.

    Probably a niche issue since usually episodes aren’t removed, but I ended up losing about a dozen bookmarks.

    I’ve since tried to do things differently but since the service I use only allows for 500 episodes in a feed, it will eventually happen again.

  • staff-joey8 · Staff ·

    @cdeutsch ah, I see what you mean and can replicate that. Our team is aware and have plans to investigate improving this in the future :)

    Thanks for sharing this with us!

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