I just upgraded to Lollipop and I was surprised this dated OS effect still shows up in PA. Is there anyway you can just set the background to go solid black in the black theme?

My playlist is sorted by priority, then by download date. The easiest way for me to interact with my Podcasts lists would be by priority, then by episodes remaining. As it stands I keep it on episodes remaining, but that results in podcasts I've just started, despite being higher priority, displaying mixed in with all the ones I haven't gotten around to yet.

Some podcasts (example: Glenn Beck) have taken to including both full length and condensed versions of a show in the same RSS feed; and then some shows just don't keep to a predictable length. In both cases it would be useful to auto-download the short episodes and just skip the too-long ones.

I listen to podcasts while driving, so I just add bookmarks and name them later. Would be nice to have a "Add bookmark" button (+) on the player screen so I can just add bookmarks quickly without going into bookmarks editing screen.
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Right now you can filter episodes by All, recent, downloaded, not downloaded, and so on but can you add a feature where we can filter episodes by "in playlist" or "Not in playlist"?

This feature would let us see all the episodes that are in a playlist or not.

How about a measure of what percentage of downloaded episodes have been listened to. This might help people prune their subscriptions.
I suggest a % on the count of episodes, any listening, vs any other measure.

When editing bookmarks, to rewind I constantly have to switch to player screen to access the rewind button. Would be nice to have the fast forward/rewind buttons directly in the bookmark screen.
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For some podcasts I like to listen to new episodes immediately (high priority), but only want to listen to older episodes when no other episodes are left in my playlist (low priority).

Currently the Android Auto display shows Episode Name, Publisher Name and Date. Would be nice to have an option to choose which track information to display. Eg. I would change Publisher Name with Podcast Name

For whatever reason, it is not possible to use the drop-down menu in the playlist to mark episodes as read or unread. In every other place like the episode list it works. I don't understand why this works everywhere else but not in the playlist.

In case someone doesn't understand what I'm talking about: http://imgur.com/a/87KqTQa

I think it's super easy to do and there is no reason not to. Actually, this is less of a suggestion than an indication of a missing component.

a function that I miss is sorting the podcasts according to the adding date, so that I know which is the podcast subscription that I recently added. That would help when I add a podcast by its RSS URI.

Currently, it's set up to be universal. All downloaded episodes go in the front, or the end, or after the current episodes. But I have some podcasts that I want added to the end of the playlist, and some I want added at the beginning, and some I want to be added after my current episode. Being able to make those decisions per podcast as opposed to a universal rule.

The transcript displays over the show art. An easily reachable toggle would allow you to enable/disable it quickly when it is obscuring details or a transcript is not required for the specific podcast.

I am often looking for episodes that I know I added recently to favorites, but the episodes themselves might have been published five years ago. It is very hard to find these episodes, and it would be nice with a sort by date added to favorites feature.