Waze has this new feature - an audio kit that allows 3rd party apps to play audio in the Waze app (see https://www.waze.com/audioplayer). Several large players (Spotify, Deezer) have already done this integration.

As most of my listening is done on the road it would be a great improvement. I also saw that other users had issues with the current situation.

I often fast forward to next episode on playlist in order to skip the adverts at the end of podcasts.
This means I end up with very many podcasts I don't want to listen clogging up the "playback in progress" list.

I'd like to have 'mark as played' remove partially played podcasts from the "playback in progress" list.

Complete the syncing across devices feature. Very disappointed to see how long ago this was requested with no apparent interest in providing this function.

Even Sticher has this. There should be a download before play option. I never want to actually stream anything, just take 5 seconds and download the podcast first. Automatic download settings do not cover my use case and I want specific individual podcast episodes to be downloaded directly before playing

I'm subscribed to serveral "News" Podcasts, some of them updating their feed every hour.

I'm not interested in hourly news from 12 hours ago and they clutter the "unplayed episodes" list, a per-podcast setting to automatically either "Mark all but the latest episode as played" or "Mark episodes older than n hours/days/month as played" would be very convenient.

I would like to check out all the podcasts from a publisher lets say Gimlet Media so I should get an option to click on that name and should show all the podcasts that are by gimlet media.

Currently if the podcast name is Reply All there is publisher name right below it but it is not clickable.

Enable the possibility to automatic Full backup On Google Drive.
At specific moment (avery day, every week, every hour, ecc ecc)

... add a review/rate option. It is necessary to show support and help iniciatives grow. Your app is really good. Make it the best

Dim the episode cover (including or not the entire episode card) when that episode is marked as played. I mean, apart from the green tick, of course.

Add a second Playlist for unimportant/old episodes. When the main playlist has reached its end, move the top episode from the second playlist to the end of the main one and start playing it. Result: the unimportant episodes will only be played when there are no more important ones. And manual sorting of the playlist will still work.

I need to unlock to press the X in the notification instead of swiping to dismiss. This is dumb, especially because from the lockscreen the X is not present at first. You need to first swipe down on the notification to expand and then press X. Just let me dismiss via swipe like other sensible apps

Allow overriding the use of the recycle bin per podcast, like many other settings can be per podcast. This way a user can turn on the recycle bin as the default, but adjust other podcasts to have a longer/shorter time-frame to keep items around for. More specifically, being able to turn off the recycle bin for a particular podcast (say an hourly news podcast that there are a lot of episodes of) could save having many items in the recycle bin.

Sometimes I forget to set my sleep timer and the app chews through like fifteen episodes while I'm asleep, so I have to go back and mark them all as unplayed, one at a time. It's be nice to just find the last one I remember hearing and Mark everything past it as unplayed. Love the app!