Play from locally downloaded episodes before attempting to stream them

[brandonb927]

I'm not sure if PinePods already does this but if I download all the episodes for a podcast, I would expect to play those files that I've downloaded to the server rather than playing from the remote source when I hit the play button for an episode. If this should be the case, I am not seeing it on 0.7.7 running on unRAID.

I encountered this issue because I run AdGuard on my network with a fairly strict set of blocklists however I allow certain clients to unblock specific domains. In this case I needed to unblock a source domain for a podcast I added recently but only for the IP address of the PinePods container so I could download all the episodes and am still blocked on other clients that play that episode from the web UI.

[madeofpendletonwool]

I'm pretty sure it does this already, but it's been awhile since I've revisted that code. So I can take a look an make some adjustments. What I can say is that I needed to take a further look at that code anyway to implement #439 so I was planning to take a look at that for the next release anyway. I'll be sure to validate the workflow of episode playing as you've mentioned above while I'm at it!

[brandonb927]

Thank you! It looks like it is not playing from the server and instead playing the remote files even though I downloaded them so it wouldn't play the remote files. The domain they play from is blocked for the client I am playing from due to tracking information being found so I only allow the PinePods server to be able to download from that domain instead, if that makes sense 😅

[madeofpendletonwool]

For sure, I would consider that a totally valid use-case and we should absolutely always prefer a local download to stream from if it's available! I'll let you know what I find in my investigation

[brandonb927]

Just to be clear on what information I am presenting here (because upon re-reading it I realize I left this part out): Playing from the Server Downloads/Downloaded Episodes page is totally fine and that is how I listen to the episodes, however it is from the Podcasts page where it attempts to stream from the remote source instead of the server.

[frythempsen]

I also experience this. On my server I configure the Content Security Policy to disallow external media sources by default. Playing from the podcast page or in the Continue Listening section doesn’t work and shows a warning for violating the policy. Only when I actively go to the Downloads section can I play the podcast.

It would be nice if there were at least an option in the settings to prefer server downloads over external ones. :)