FreeTubeApp
[Bug]: Can't create a string longer than xxx characters
Guidelines
- [X] I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
- [X] I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
Describe the bug
It happens wherever I start FreeTube, pressing on OK on the error message (see below screenshot), it continues to work fine, but all contents of my favorites (play list) is empty. I think this happened because I added too many items to the play list, because for a long time everything was working fine, but lately this started to happen suddenly, and no app update took place within this period.
Expected Behavior
No error should happen, and the play list should contain the items I chosen.
Issue Labels
causes crash
FreeTube Version
v0.16.0 Beta
Operating System Version
Win10, 21H1, 19043.1586
Installation Method (If applicable)
Portable
Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)
No response
Primary API used
Local API
Additional Information
No response
Nightly Build
- [ ] I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.
Hey there! If it's alright with you, could you please send me your playlists file? You can use this article to know where it's located. Sending it to me at [email protected] or through Matrix would be best. I can take a look at it and see what needs to be done in order for it to be read properly.
@PrestonN Hi, sorry I prefer to not send it for privacy concerns.
However, I am a programmer also, although in a different field/technologies from the one FreeTube uses, so maybe you can tell me what to look on, so I can check my self.
A made quick look on the playlists.db file, that happened to be of unrealistically large size (547MB!), and that as I understand, is JSON-like formatted. I noticed that the same root element is being repeated many times (360 times exactly), along with all its contents, this seemed to be incorrect...
I opened it in VSCode, removed the repeated lines, the file size become about 1.5Mb, and now FreeTube runs fine, and my old favorites are all in place.
Hence, you need to recheck your playlist saving logic, something causes it to go into a loop of repeating same contents, particularly 360 times.
It's all good. I understand the concerns.
The playlist logically will likely be overhauled once I'm done with full user created playlists, so I'll take an extra look at that logic and make sure nothing is duplicating on accident.
Our DB can potentially show multiple entries when the app is running and would be as intended, but if they persist when the app is closed then that would obviously be an issue that needs looked at.
This admittedly might not get looked at right away and I'll save it for when I'm back to working on full playlists.
If you'd like to look a bit deeper yourself, the majority of the logic you're looking for will likely come from these three files. The logic for starting the workflow will be here. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.
Had the same happening to me.
Playlist was at nearly 700MB. I restored last nights backup (at 300MB). ..
Then starred my favs from subs again, closed freetube. Reopened, now it's back at 2.3MB and works fine.
Will report back if it appears again. Really keen on knowing what triggers this.
It appears whenever a change to a playlist is appends the file instead of overwriting it, every time I make a change to the playlist the size of the file increases by 1 line.
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This issue is stale because it has been open 28 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 7 days.
This issue is stale because it has been open 28 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 7 days.
This issue is stale because it has been open 28 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 7 days.
This issue is stale because it has been open 28 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 7 days.
This issue is stale because it has been open 28 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 7 days.
This issue is stale because it has been open 28 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 7 days.
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I have a feeling that you should the exempt-issue-labels feature to stop the spam from this action. Having to re-open this ticket every month probably negates the benefit from having this feature.
https://github.com/actions/stale#exempt-issue-labels
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@GlowingUmbreon we are using this workflow only on bug reports, feature requests are exempted. Every month when a bug report gets stale we will evaluate if it is still unresolved. We have caught 100+ issues this way that could be closed and are still catching issues that are resolved but still open. This is how we use it to keep our issue tracker clean. I understand that it could be annoying for u to get an notification about this every month but this is a way of working is very efficient for us.
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Does this still happen in the latest version of FT?