Please create a ranking of the week's top episodes.

Today I added a virtual podcast and added all episodes to the end of my playlist, started listening to these episodes and when they finished the playlist didn’t return to the top and carry on, is this a setting I’ve missed or something that could be added? Great app by the way top quality.

When I download an already played episode, it can be assumed I'd like to listen to it again. To me it would make sense to have the option to mark it as played automatically upon download.

Sorting by publication date uses the date of the most recent unplayed episode to determine the order. If new episodes get added, the podcast sorts to the top of most recent even if they have older unplayed episodes. This makes it hard to listen to unplayed podcasts in publication order. I would like an option to sort by publication date that uses the date of the oldest unplayed episode.

Using Galaxy Buds or similar wireless headphones I have the option to tap for "next", but not to jump a short time within the episode/song. Since I never use the first option and often have to get out my phone for the latter, it would be great if you could swap the "next episode" behaviour in settings.

We can create a home screen shortcut to a podcast and I love it but sometimes to singles episodes as well could be useful, say a chapter of a virtual podcast or the next episode you have to listen into a podcast you would like to listen completely.

Hello,
I really like this app but wish the search function was a little better. For example, if I search for a specific speaker (in this example "Simon Conway Morris") or specific producer ("BBC 4") the search doesn't seem to recognize these terms and won't display results for them, despite both words/ phrases being in the description. I only know they are in the description because in a different podcast app when I search those words many more episode/ podcast options come up. I really like everything else about the app!

In the episode list, similar to how it says length of episode, display how big the file is of the downloaded podcast.

Please increase the list of top audio podcasts from 200 to 500.

Would be nice to have a map visualization for searching podcast episodes or watching the subscribed ones.
There is the standard GeoRSS for tagging them.

I noticed a couple of interesting concept app:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bmyjg8/new-app-lets-you-record-geo-located-sounds-and-stories-for-others-to-discover

https://youtu.be/sHKA8VzumOQ
This last one is more similar to what I think could be more appropriate for your great app. Their problem is that is very immature and lack of the ton of feature PA has.

The first link is an interesting source of ideas on how to use geotargeting in podcasts.

Some content providers have developed intelligent speakers. But there are tons of continent which is not suitable for the children child.. And parents have no control over the continent.. Pod cast can develop a speaker version of the application.. Which can be controlled where the cell phone.. Then we can determine what coordinates our children can listen to. And it can function a alarm clock.

I'd love to be able to backup/restore the preferences bits on their own

I'm not sure if this is already posted, but I miss the option to filter your search results by release date. For example, if you search for "house music" of no specific podcast, you will find thousands of results, of which only 200 results are shown.
Yes, you can sort by Publication date, but it will only show the 200 newest or the 200 oldest episodes. And if you search for a specific year, not all episodes will mention that number either. So therefore, I think a Publication Date filter would be useful.

This way, we can find new podcasts through people with similar taste; we can easily suggest an episode or podcast to our friends and be updated about trends.

EMUI, xiaomi's version of Android, doesn't like it when you have a custom layout. Without rooting your phone there is no lock screen widget. If possible detect this and adjust settings.
See
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-add-third-party-music-apps-emui-lock-screen/

I would like to at least change the color of the Open. Screen widget from the orange color to something less clashing.

At present, there are only 2 settings for volume - one is the default volume, and one is somewhat louder. Make a full control of volume, so the sound would go from very soft to very loud