Clear All History Option

Eter
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In case it matters, I’m a paying customer. Generally really pleased.

But I’ve noticed that over time Eter has gotten slower and more often than not doesn’t pick up a stream.

I use Eter primarily to stream MSNBC, BBC, and Al-Jazeera. By far the most streams I have listened to were on MSNBC.

It became so undependable and slowed down to a crawl. On a lark I looked at my History and every stream that I had ever listened to was saved there.

I deleted them one by one - I should’ve counted, I know - but there were tons.

Ideally this could be handled in 1 or 2 ways - a “Clear All History” button in the history window and a "Delete stream after [criteria] - 24 hours?

Not sure if this is the right place to post this; if I need to post it elsewhere please let me know - thanks

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Hi, @kuramotonyc and welcome.
Yes, this is a good place to post this. Thank you for your suggestions.

I wonder if you think that slowness is in some way related to history. It shouldn’t be the case, but it’s not clear if this is what you meant.

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Thanks for the reply Jacob - good to be here!

One other thing i realized after posting this. I would attempt to start a stream with Eter and it would go for a blip - a second at most, then stop playing. Hitting the play button again might or might not play another second. Sometimes nothing happened. I thought might’ve been a Bluetooth thing - so I tried it with corded Apple earbuds - same behavior.

I’m on a 14 Pro with 512GB with 408GB in use ; checking the General–>Storage, it says I’m running Eter v2.0.1 with an app size of 20.1MB and Documents and Data of 9.5MB. I thought maybe I was running up to a cache size limit or object count limit or something. I’m listening now and will check Documents and Data later today and see if it’s changed at all.

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There is a way to clear history from the Settings screen:

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Made sense that it would be there.

If I change the Setting in Eter on my Mac vs my iPhone, do my settings travel with me, or are they device-local?

And - I quit Eter on my phone and went back to Storage, and Eter is now using 9.6MB. A small amount admittedly - but this is based on 30 minutes of playing news. I swapped out your app for SiriusXM a couple of weeks ago. Maybe I just used too much storage?

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9.6MB is really a small amount of storage. I don’t think this has any connection to the stuttering in playing unless you may be completely at 0 free space and even then you’ll probably have larger problems than this. The stuttering is more like to be a result of network condition / quality of internet connection, in my opinion.