It's been observed that Youtube has lately started to clamp down on certain political speech. Many of my favorite content creators were forced to migrate to the alternative resource - Bitchute.com

My request is to implement RSS subscription to Bitchute channels the same way the YT channels' RSS subscription was implemented.

Unlike Youtube, the Bitchute does not prohibit downloading their content (AFAIK). The second part of the request is to be able to save the Bitchute videos (or the extracted audio) for later offline playback like podcasts.

Youtube's ToS do not allow to download their content directly under the threat of a ban. However there could be a workaround. There's an excellent app out there called the NewPipe. It allows to download the YT videos (and even the extracted audio) through the "Share" button on YT itself. My request is to integrate the option to "Share" the YT videos in RSS subscriptions of PA to NewPipe if such app is present on one's device.

Why can't we leave reviews?

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

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.

It would be great when you open a youtube video from a playlist PA would append ?list= with with playlist id imported into PA

Please add an override or change limit message when attempting to manually download a number of episodes that when combined with what has already been downloaded will exceed the "keep at most" limit if it's not already set to unlimited. I think this is why I keept experiencing stage behavior when trying to download a lot of episodes and forgot to charge that limit. It seems like it's downloading all of them then marking all but the most recent (insert limit) episodes as played add deleting the downloads.

Thanks for providing the best podcast player and scraper for Android!

James

When you're using the player (and to a lesser extent, other screens), there are so many options on the triple for menu (store with check marks and sub menus) that it feels cluddered.
If it was changed to a left drawer, then you could separate it into sections like: Audio (volume boost, mono, skip silence), Share, Podcast (episodes, description, rate, website)

Sometimes it seems like two episodes in the playlist can blend together when one plays immediately after the previous one especially when the two episodes are from the same podcast. A setting to allow a silent pause between episodes of around 5ish seconds (or customisable amount) could help the listener to better distinguish between episodes.

Once the player starts, using the back button usually goes out of the App to the phone "desktop". I don't need that because my phone has a button for that - I get a sinking "oh bother" feeling almost every time.
Most times I would like it to return me to the same place in the list of podcasts I've just come from (either form the same subscription or a search result) – then I can select another one from the sequence or category.
Or perhaps this is a setting I have not noticed - please help me find it.

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

Add an additional option for when Alternate podcasts is checked on a playlist so that it will only alternate when a podcast would have multiple episodes in a row. For example something like
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... add a review/rate option. It is necessary to show support and help iniciatives grow. Your app is really good. Make it the best

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.