I would like to be able to create multiple regular playlists, where I select which episodes are added to each playlist and not add all episodes of a podcast like in the "custom" category. Also, it should be possible to remove the "video" playlist as I don't have a need for this, and I assume most people who listen to podcasts (while driving etc) also don't.

However, most importantly, I would like to be able to create multiple playlists (like one for listen to now, listen to when I have time, etc) where I am individually adding episodes, not complete podcasts, to the list.

As an Android user of Podcast Addict, I refresh my podcast feed (over 30 subscriptions) once or twice a week. In my configuration, this presents a list of 15-20 entries on the "new episodes" page.

I manually download the episodes I'm interested in, and mark the ones I'm not interested in as "read".

Problem: a user must select an episode on the New Episodes screen, launch the episode's screen, then select either "download" or "mark read" on the screen.

It would be really useful to have a shortcut feature on the main New Episode screen which allows me to quickly set an episode to download or as "read".

I suggest the use of a screen "swipe" function, such that when a user swipes left on the episode, it marks the episode as "read" and when a user swipes the episode to the right it marks it as "queue for download"

There are certain podcasts that I don't want to check for updates every time the auto-update runs.

Either because the podcast is finished, and I only want to stay subscribed in case the podcast will use their feed to deliver me news of a new, similar podcast they're doing.

Or it's that I know that the podcast will not update more than a few times a year.

Would be cool if I could customize the frequency for each podcast. The same way I can disable updates altogether for certain podcasts.

Addendum:

You could justify this feature as part of an initiative to allow cutting back on battery/cpu cost.

There could also be an advanced option, where the app tries to predict the time a podcast updated, by looking at previous release times.

Additionally, you could use other people's anonymous data sharing, to see when a podcast has updated, and then send push notifications to all users that subscribed to that podcast with the update frequency set to "On-Demand"

I usually have several longer podcasts queued up.

When I leave for work or from work, I download the latest news podcast from the local radio station, put on my headphones and press play. But before that I need to tap on the first item in the playlist to switch the currently playing title.

What I suggest is: when a title is added to the top of the playlist, at least when paused, automatically make it the currently playeing title, so that when I press play/unpause, the most recently added one will start playing instead of continuing the one I was listening to.

I think if someone has set something to be added to the top of the playlist, they would like to prioritize listening to it higher than the currently playing title, in that sense, maybe it could be done even while playing.