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Weird TuneIn "Loading Error" Bug

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2020 Model S LR+ Owner
May 3, 2015
2,463
12,332
New Mexico, USA
Steps to reproduce (good luck, you won't be able to)

1. Favorite a TuneIn radio station.
2. Listen to it lots.
3. Time passes (months, years)
4. One day the station gets a streaming glitch, so their feed goes off-air.
5. TuneIn reports "Loading Error"
6. This persists for weeks.
7. Finally, contact the station and tell them about it.
8. Station says yep they know, but they already fixed the problem. They say, TuneIn DELETED the station, I suppose thinking the feed URL was no longer valid.
9. TESLA MODEL S doesn't know any of this -- all it knows is that a favorited TuneIn station can't load, so it shows "Loading Error"

Ok so here is the problem:
• Tesla's TuneIn app is trying to load a favorited station (which behind the scenes is a URL) which probably no longer exists -- hence permanent loading error.
• It is impossible to fix this by un-favoriting the station, in order to remove it, and then searching for it and adding it and favoriting it again (in theory with a new streaming URL) because the way you un-favorite is to first select the station then tap the filled-in heart icon, but the heart icon is immediately removed from the display so that the software can display the Loading Error message whenever you access the station!!! It's like a Catch-22....