Add an optional override priority for specific episodes
Sometimes I want to boost the priority of specific episodes. It would be nice to long-press the episode and get a selection to "Override priority" so it would sort closer to the top.
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Joshua Zimmerman commented
This would be fantastic. When I subscribe to a podcast, I often like to listen to new episodes as they're released and work through the older episodes after I'm caught up on everything else.
It would be very helpful if I could set a podcast with a certain priority and then override specific episodes to a lower priority so that they stay lower in the playlist.
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Mike Conners commented
Yeah, I agree. The priority system is the reason I use Podcast Addict. I even think I would have given up on podcasts by now without it. I haven't looked at the others recently, but when I was, they were all so bad at maintaining the playlist order, if they tried at all.
My current hack for this problem is to just listen to it immediately. After, it goes back to the top of the priority system. That works when it's just one episode.
The necessary feature, that Xavier already implemented, is the one where it goes back to the top of the list when you're not already playing from the top of the list. This particular feature is a nice to have, though if it makes it easier to implement, it's information that only needs to persist while the episode is on the playlist. Without knowing how the playlist is implemented, i think it could be attached to the playlist array rather than the episode. Obviously, if it's just an array of references to the episodes, that won't work.
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Dave commented
Just had the same idea, well said. I had posted to reddit but will post it here for clarity:
Let me start by saying I love the priority feature. It's the main reason I switched to PA when I did. It's brilliant.
TL;DR: Would it be possible to add per-episode priority?
An example to illustrate the issue I run into: I auto download every episode of _x_ podcasts. These are all sorted by priority. Sometimes I want to move an episode from a low priority up towards the top of the list (or just anywhere in the list). Obviously I can just move them to the top, but that gets reset anytime something new is added to the playlist.
I was thinking per-episode priority (that defaults to the podcast's priority) might fix it as then I can just set the one I want to listen to fit appropriately in the list.
Of course I'm always open to another solution, if anyone has better.