Fix removing unwatched streams from playlist when using "remove watched"#12929
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Fix removing unwatched streams from playlist when using "remove watched"#12929
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Now streamStates is fetched even when not needed, i.e. when removePartiallyWatched is false
The bug is caused by a wanted but forgotten inconsistency in the database. A stream can be listed in the watch history (StreamHistoryEntity) while having no corresponding playback state (StreamStateEntity) containing the matching playback position. This is caused by the fact that NewPipe does not consider a watch time of less than five seconds to be worthy to be put into the StreamStateEntity because the video was most likely played by error. Those videos are, however, counted and stored in the watch history.
Playlists can also contain audio-only items. Therefore, the term "stream" is used.
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Bug fix
The bug is caused by a wanted but forgotten inconsistency in the database. A stream can be listed in the watch history (StreamHistoryEntity) while having no corresponding playback state (StreamStateEntity) containing the matching playback position. This is caused by the fact that NewPipe does not consider a watch time of less than five seconds to be worthy to be put into the StreamStateEntity because the video was most likely played by error. Those videos are, however, counted and stored in the watch history.
I think we need to discuss whether we should add the stream to the watch history at all.
UI/UX improvements
The dialog with three options was changed to a yes and cancel button and a checkbox. The strings were changed to respect that a playlist can also contain audio streams. "streams" is now used in favour of "video".
Before/After Screenshots/Screen Record
A screen record with the old version is in #12917. The following recording shows the new behaviour and dialog.
Screen_recording_20251221_212542.webm
Fixes the following issue(s)
APK testing
The APK can be found by going to the "Checks" tab below the title. On the left pane, click on "CI", scroll down to "artifacts" and click "app" to download the zip file which contains the debug APK of this PR. You can find more info and a video demonstration on this wiki page.
This backup can be used to easily test different scenarios: NewPipe-Data-Playlist-stream-states.zip
The test playlist contains five streams:
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