Re: Car Cast Pro - Podcast Player

[Robert Herrmann]

Hi.

I'm sorry CarCast has been giving you trouble.       The newer versions of android strongly encourage developers to not write to flash storage, but only use phones on board storage.     I'd recommend reseting the data location to the default and then seeing if your troubles clear up.     Newer phones have enough memory to easily store podcasts on the main flash.

To discover the correct default setting, I usually add a character to the beginnign of the data location to make it invalid.    Then an error message on CarCast's home screen will show what location is the default one.

Cheers

-bob

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:59 PM, gmkayaker <gmka...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been using CarCast for several years. I like it enough that I upgraded to Pro. Recently, I upgraded my phone to a T-Mobile Galaxy S5 with Lolipop (5.1.1) and I'm having trouble with CarCast Pro forgetting my last-played location. It seems to always go back to a particular podcast that I listened to over a week ago. I have tried deleting the listened-to podcasts manu ally via the Podcasts menu item but they keep reappearing after deleting them. (It is almost like Carcast isn't writing to my external SD card properly.) I have been manually deleting files using My Files as a workaround but that is not sustainable.

Oh, yeah. Switching to storing podcasts on the external SD card is totally non-intuitive and takes me at least 5 tries each time I (re)install Carcast. Why does it have to be so hard? And why can't it switch everything with a single command rather than having so many different location settings?

Otherwise, I love the product.

Thanks,

Gerard

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[Gerard Meszaros]

On 16/07/20 5:51 AM, Robert Herrmann wrote:

Hi.

I'm sorry CarCast has been giving you trouble.       The newer versions of android strongly encourage developers to not write to flash storage, but only use phones on board storage.     I'd recommend reseting the data location to the default and then seeing if your troubles clear up.     Newer phones have enough memory to easily store podcasts on the main flash.

I buy phones that have an SD card slot so I am not beholden to the phone manufacturer's tendency to grossly overprice their memory. I have 8gb on board storage so I use a 32gb SD card for my media. So I really want to put my podcasts on the SD card as that is the whole point of having a phone with an SD card slot.

It is not at all obvious what string will get me to my existing CarCast directory on the external SD card. The Default location was something like /mnt/0/carcast/podcasts.  What the #*@! is "0/" and how would I replace it with the extSdCard? A proper file picker rather than a cryptic text field) would make setting the storage location much easier. As would a note indicating what the default would be so that one can see whether to select the CarCast directory or the podcasts directory under it.

Thanks,

Gerard

[Patrick Forhan]

On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 11:32:09 PM UTC-5, Gerard Meszaros wrote:

It is not at all obvious what string will get me to my existing CarCast directory on the external SD card. The Default location was something like /mnt/0/carcast/podcasts.  What the #*@! is "0/" and how would I replace it with the extSdCard? A proper file picker rather than a cryptic text field) would make setting the storage location much easier. As would a note indicating what the default would be so that one can see whether to select the CarCast directory or the podcasts directory under it.

Different manufacturers will do different things.  You're going to have to grab a "file explorer" tool to find out what folder it's in.  It's often /sdcard/external, but I can't guarantee it's that for every phone.

Pat.