Improve Android Auto
Some of these have been mentioned before though not for AA:
-Sort lists by oldest to newest, or allow me to browse for the episode I want. Right now, the newest is on top and I am prevented from scrolling to the oldest until my car is parked which means I cannot use PA. Alternatively, get rid of the scroll prevention, but I don't know if that is possible.
-Add continuous playback for a podcast. Right now I have to manually select a podcast every time one ends, which when compounded with the first point, means I either spend too much time looking at the screen instead of the road (bad) or I sit in silence until I can park my car just to play a new episode (worse).
I love PA and think it has 90% of what I need so I'd love to see these simple improvements to take it the rest of the way. Thanks!
AA displays episodes using the default sorting of Podcast Addict. If you change the sorting on your device, it will change the sorting on AA as well
There’s no workaround for the AA restrictions regarding the # of action required to browse content. It will only allow scrolling a couple of times.
AA works just like the app. If you enabled Continuous playback, then pressing play on an episode will create a queue of every unread episodes of the same podcast.
Feel free to send me an email if you have more questions if it doesn’t work as intended for you (Settings/Feedback)
Thanks
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The playlist screen and every other screen showing episodes has a sort button in the toolbar (or in the toolbar menu depending on your device)
The continuous playback has been added months ago and is used every day by 100+K users. I can assure you it works fine.
Open the app, press on the podcast of your choice, select an episode and press play.
Then open the player screen and swipe right you will see the playback queue for this podcast.
The app will keep playing until it reaches the end of the queue.
If your current podcast is the last one in the queue then playback will stop at the end.
Please contact me via email in case you have questions/feedback (Settings/Feedback)Thanks
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Brian Duffey commented
I was not aware of sorting in the app at all as it is very confusing with many menus and only some screens having the settings/sort. So that will resolve it for me if AA will also use the custom sort.
However, continuous playback has been turned on from the get go and it has never once worked. I also see a highly voted issue saying the same thing so not sure how you can claim it works at all, let alone in AA.