gtufano wrote: 
Hi

thanks for xour consideration

t am using a iphone 7 running both iOS an RP app on the newest versions.

when observing the space consumed by the app under the settings i could notice, that after every listening sessions the indicated amount of data of the app is reduced. This works until the amount of downloaded cache blocks reaches about 10 blocks (maximum quality/bit rate between 5 to seven hours duration per block) then all of a sudden, after having downloaded another block, this reduction in occupied space will no longer happen. Even a full restart of the app and/or the phone will not change/purge the amount of reserved disk space for the app, this means, that even when consuming or deleting a whole downloaded block will not result in reducing the amount of occupied space but with every new download of a block the used space is getting bigger of course. So this raised my concern upon where this effect will lead to in time (eating up the free space on the phone and slowing the performance/reaction time of the app after pressing stop or starting the app)

about the slower performing: i noticed that the described issues will happen if the amount of downloaded blocks will reach, lets say 30 GB or so, the effects will increas furthermore depending of how much more downloads are tacking place.  So a restart of the app will take 30 seconds or more and   The stop button will react only after 5 seconds.

So my concern is, that this will happening also by time, because the purging is not happening anymore

 best regards and thanks
stevrn

 

 saellig668552 wrote: 
Well (I'm the developer for the iOS app)... a bug can always find a way so it's absolutely OK to whine about something that don't work for you (because, you know, you could definitely be right). :) So said, we have no other user with the problem (it could also be that nobody else noticed it, btw).

I just double-checked the code: every song start, there is a quick check to understand if the playlist needs a refresh, at the end of which a purgeCacheDirectory method is called. In this code, there is a check to understand if PSD are played (in which case, there is no purge happening for curious reasons)... after that every file (both songs and covers) in the cache directory is checked against the pending playlists (live and/or cached) and deleted if not. This code is very old, not changed in a couple years at least... so I suspect it's not the real problem. Slideshow images are not cached in any case, so also I don't think they can be the problem.
To be fully honest, I just found a potential bug that could preserve (once every month or so) 16 songs file (there is a counter restarting) but I don't think this is critical.

That's the situation. I really can't reproduce your problem (I know, this is a developer typical answer) :)
beside that, the data files are in the app sandbox Cache directory, so the system in itself will delete them if the disk space is low... *this* has caused a bunch of worried listeners claiming "I had n playlist waiting and suddenly are disappeared"... that's because iOS will happily delete the data files if short on space, and the app will delete the playlist orphaned of its data files... 

I think something else it's happening... could you give me some more information on what happens, from the user point of view? What you mean, really, with "will lead to slower performing of the app when opening it and when the STOP button is pressed"? The app will not respond anymore? Which device you have?

Sorry for the problem you have,
gt (always willing to solve listeners problem) :)  

hello 

as on my posts in this matter which were "sort of hidden" under other posts in the forum (caching in iphone and the regular "bug reports" topic) remained without feedback,  i dare, seeking other users experience, to put this on a brand new single post.

 Fact is, that the app is not clearing (purging) occupied memory space after listening to downloaded music/blocks. And this will lead sooner or later to a complete filling of the available memory on the gadget and/or the growing increase of  the volume of the app will lead to slower performing of the app when opening it and when the STOP button is preesed.

My experience resulted in  finding out, that only deleting/erasing the app will solve the problem for a while.  after a period of time  the problem 
reoccurs again.
eventually a downloaded somewhat corrupted block might stop the clearing of used memory space with a non reversing effect unless all the downloaded blocks and the app is erased and completely reinstalled.. 

are there no other iphone users make the same experience?

@bill: sorry for coming up with this (again) - if the issue is bugging and seems out of place or mentionned to often, feel free to cancel the post, no hard feelings from my part, as i am a truly devoted and also supportive listener to RP - come what may, my loyalty to this fantastic project is guaranteed in either case.

regards
steve