Shuffle That Maintains Episode Order
PA currently provides a shuffle function to play episodes from the playlist in random order. It would be nice to have an option to ensure that two episodes from a single podcast are shuffled "in order"
Example - I add episodes 1 and 2 of podcast A and episodes 4 and 5 of podcast B to my playlist. When I shuffle the episodes with this option enabled, episode 1 of podcast A will always be shuffled to an earlier position than episode 2 of podcast A, and episode 4 of podcast B will always be shuffled to an earlier position than episode 5 of podcast B. Other than this requirement, the playlist is randomized.
"Episode Order" could potentially be simplified to be "Playlist Order" -- assume that episodes of each podcast represented were added to the playlist in the order they should remain after the shuffle.
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Mike Blazanin commented
People who support this might be interested in the proposal for a "smart playlist" option that sorts each podcast by date but does so in such a way that old & new podcast episodes can be mixed freely without ending up with blocks of old episodes at the end of the playlist, and in such a way that the episodes of a podcast are always spread out through the playlist. This would give the feel of randomness while ensuring sorting by date and even spread of episodes from a feed.
See it here: https://podcastaddict.uservoice.com/forums/211997-general/suggestions/8105223--smart-sorting-option