I am a member of the Fatecrafter Studio Network and I was requesting for us to be added to the Podcast Network Section. Xavier suggested posting here to let people vote on it.

Fatecrafters is an audiodrama network that features some of the top audiodrama podcasts: Atheist Apocalypse, Audioblivious Productions, Diary of a Madman, The Drift and Ramble Podcast, Lake Clarity, Subject: Found, Pulp-Pourri Theatre, Rex Rivetter: Private Eye, Spines, and The Tunnels, as well as a couple more that are in the preliminary joining processes. All of us are on different hosts, as we are all independent podcasts, and we wanted to make it a little easier to find us.

Thanks to Google's backup systems, if my phone someday decides to go for a swim or the like, I know I will be able to recover almost all my data up to the crash. This app is the one major exception. In order to fix this, the backup system needs three improvements:

1.) The option to automatically back up my full data, rather than just the OPML file.
2.) The option to use cloud storage as a backup location, rather than just the device.
3.) The option to set an automatic backup at a regular interval, rather than only when the subscriptions change.

Thanks for all the work you do on the app, Xavier!

The app should have the option to automatically delete the least recent episode currently downloaded to make room for new episodes as they become available when the user has defined a maximum number of episodes to keep downloaded.

Current behaviour when using automatic downloads of episodes in Archive mode, used in conjunction with the "Keep at most" setting in Automatic cleanup, results in new episodes to not be downloaded if the user defined limit of episodes to keep is already reached. If the user then manually downloads the latest episode a seemingly random downloaded episode from the podcast is deleted to stay within the limits dictated by the "Keep at most" setting. To me it seems like the intended behaviour here is to keep the most recent episodes, but if the user doesn't keep up with listening to the new episodes the app fails to keep the most recent ones downloaded as the least recent episodes are not automatically deleted. A similar option does of course exist, the "Delete older episodes" setting in Automatic cleanup, but seeing as different podcasts release episodes with differing regularity this option makes it difficult to set a global limit that keeps recent episodes downloaded consistently. In addition, if you were to set a podcast specific age limit that takes into consideration how often new episodes are usually published, and the publisher then, for whatever reason, decides to publish more episodes than usual this could cause the limit on how many episodes to keep to be reached, which again would result in new episodes not being downloaded automatically.

An similar option to delete the least recent, downloaded episode of a podcast, to make room for new releases, would allow users to consistently keep a user defined number of most recent episodes downloaded on their device.

When you listen to one episode, automatically flag the next episode to be downloaded.

If I'm listening to multiple podcasts that are well esrablished, but I'd like to listen to all episodes 1, then episodes 2, then episodes 3, etc. I currently have to manually sort.

I'd like to the the ability to flag a podcast for "catching up". When I listen to Episode 1, it automatically flags Episode 2 for download. This is convenient for auto-queueing downloaded episodes to the playlist and getting each podcast in proper order. It also allows for listening to multiple podcasts that were published at different times.

I have two main types of podcasts I am listening too.

1. Story based podcasts
This type of Podcast tells a story over multiple episodes. The content often isn't related to the current events but can be listened years after publication. The episodes build on one another. An example would be 'Serial'. The listening order should be the order of publication. For this kind I override the settings like this:

Automatic download: yes
Archive mode: yes
Download older first: yes
Automatic playlist: yes
Delete: no

I sort the podcast by date, old->new

2. News based podcasts
This podcasts often are related more to current events like news podcasts or talk podcasts. Newer published episodes are more interesting than older ones and there often is huge archive of episodes which is impossible to catch up if one would start with episode #1. The episodes aren't really connected or at least can be understood if listened to individually. I haven't listened to it but I think 'The Nerdist' would be an example. My settings for such a podcast would be:

Automatic download: yes
Archive mode: no
Download older first: no
Automatic playlist: no
Delete: yes

I sort the podcast by date, new->old

Right now I set all this settings for each podcast individually. I could decide to set the default settings to eg. kind one and only override the other kind. But I would always forget which kind I've chosen as default.

I think it would be great if I could create such a set of settings and give it title. Some other users would need maybe 4-5 different kind of presets. I think I would be served with these two.
If I add a new cast I would have only chose from one of these presets and don't have to think which worked best for this kind of cast (I don't remember all the settings so I have to read through the whole menu every time).

Another benefit would be that you could change a setting and it would be set to all the similar podcasts as well.
Also included in this request is the option that there is the possibility to set different sorting settings per podcast.