First, most music players seem to organize music like for old style records. I mean

Album
Artist
Track
That type of music detail

But I keep my music in file folders. Probably that's what most people do.

So when I want to play music I go to the file folder and make selections. Of course the product is for podcasts. But if it can do double duty it's one less app sucking space and attention.

How can I simply navigate, within PP, to file folders? Then select multiple tracks (not necessarily in order)?

The PLAYER function does not solve the problem for me.

This would let use PA as my only mp3 app.

Please consider cleaning up the UI. Or at least give the option to hide UI elements. Your app might just be the very best regarding functionality but it doesn't look all that great in my opinion. It is very busy to look at.

For example the refresh button could be replaced with pull-to-refresh as an option.

Let me remove it the indicator for video or audio episodes. I don't do video podcasts (Does anyone??). The same is true for the playlist. Let's please hide the video feed.

I don't need the date of the last released episode on the main feed page. I have feeds that are dead since 2 years. This info is not important. Let me hide that too.

The themes are too busy with the two colors per feed. The black amoled theme is the best looking because it is just one color, black. I'd like dark, grey and bright versions of that.

All icons seem a tad too big. I'm nitpicking now but it looks a bit off.

(Some of the stuff I said is only true for the "list view")

This is meant as honest feedback and I hope you take it as such. I know it's a lot and pretty harsh but I didn't want to make 10 posts or beat around the bush.

Thanks for your work, it's a great app.

Currently on the playlist there is an option to exit and stop playing after a certain amount of time, which is nice. You can also select to have the app stop after the current episode finishes (which ever happens first, time or the episode) which is great.

I'd be interested in an option that allows the user to have the app stop after a certain number of episodes, as opposed to measuring in minutes.

I often manage my listening in terms of episodes as opposed to an amount of time.

I imagine this could be implemented with a slider similar to the podcast episodes. When the feature is turned on it could put a segment below the current episode which could be dragged up and down the playlist to have simple control over when to stop.

First of all - AWESOME APP !!!
The amount of functionality and configuration is incredible.
Reading here in the forum about all the suggestions as well as all the different configuration and personalization option - AMAZING - Respect for the work!

My suggestion:
Is it possible to add a "Tab Bar" ad the bottom of the UI on all the main screens?

The Tab Bar would contain the main menu points
* Home (Podcast)
* Radio
* Player
* Playlist
* Download
And would make the navigation between the different screens much easier.

Example:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/11/the-golden-rules-of-mobile-navigation-design/#tab-bar

Why add it:
1.) A phone with a big screen requires the use of a second hand to click the Menu icon in the top left corner - big gap/stretch.
2.) The user must click twice to switch to other main screens. The only possibility to have one click is by using the return button (not possible to go forward)

Implementation:
I would suggest adding the Tab Bar on to the bottom of the main pages (listed above).
This space is currently occupied by advertising and I think some people would nag that they cannot click buttons and always click the advertising banner.
A possible solution would be to enable this Tab bar after the user has bought the application. This way no one can complain to click the add-Banner instead of the tab bar and users have also a motivation to purchase the application for a more friendly UI.

For podcasts with long episodes (50-60 minutes), I only need to keep a few episodes on my phone, but for podcasts with shorter episodes (10-20 minutes) I would like more espisodes, so:

Be able to set an amount of time for each podcast (universal or different amount for different podcasts)

Then PA keeps either keeps the most recent X hours and deletes older ones (if user always wants, say, the latest news) OR PA waits to download new episodes until the total downloaded time drops below limit.

For example, if I am listening to a serialized podcast where you want to listen in chronological order, I am unlikely to want to download the latest episode if I still have 8 hours of old episodes to listen too.