Bug 508153

Summary:	A Button To Refresh Individual Podcasts (Feature Request)
Product:	[Applications] kasts	Reporter:	KDE User <cecij72018>
Component:	general	Assignee:	bart
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Flatpak
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description KDE User 2025-08-12 09:46:02 UTC

SUMMARY
I’m subscribed to hundreds of podcasts, but I don’t have periodic fetching enabled. Some podcasts I listen to daily, while others much less frequently. Right now, to update a podcast, I have to click "Refresh All Podcasts," which can be time-consuming, especially on slower systems with poor internet. It would be more efficient if I could just update the currently selected podcast. Kasts currently updates all podcasts, but there are times when I won’t visit many of them for months. Adding a button like "Refresh Podcast" to update individual podcasts would make the experience smoother and prevent podcast servers from being constantly hit with unnecessary requests.

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Comment 1 bart 2025-08-13 20:47:52 UTC

There is already a button to refresh individual podcasts.  Just go to the podcast page (by clicking on the podcast image on the "subscriptions" page), and you'll find the button in the toolbar.  Clicking on that will only refresh the current feed.

But, I see that it might also be useful to select several podcasts from the subscriptions page and then refresh the selected ones through the right-click menu or a menu option from the toolbar.

Comment 2 KDE User 2025-08-14 11:10:19 UTC

(In reply to bart from comment #1)
> There is already a button to refresh individual podcasts.  Just go to the
> podcast page (by clicking on the podcast image on the "subscriptions" page),
> and you'll find the button in the toolbar.  Clicking on that will only
> refresh the current feed.
> 
> But, I see that it might also be useful to select several podcasts from the
> subscriptions page and then refresh the selected ones through the
> right-click menu or a menu option from the toolbar.

Thank you! I'm so dumb not to see that button. I have slow startup times for the Kasts Flatpak and since it lagged because of the "Refresh All Podcasts" button I thought that might've been the culprit that contributed to it. Reinstalling Kasts changes startup time from 15 seconds to 5 seconds. I was looking for that individual refresh button before reporting this bug, but I couldn't find it at all! I think this report can be closed now, as it looks like it's not a problem. Thank you for developing this software. :)