Allow alternate playlist to be lower in multisort
Love the new alternate podcasts feature! But it would be even better if you could sort by other things first, eg sort by priority and then alternate podcasts with the same priority
This feature already takes into account your sorting settings. You can sort by priority, then by publication date then the app will alternate episodes by podcast based on this sorting
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Blaise Gassend commented
I agree with the person who posted this request. Let's say you have podcasts a, b, c and d. Let's say that a and b are high priority and c and are low priority.
Currently if you alternate podcasts and sort by priority, the play order is a b c d a b c d. So the priority has very little effect. What I want to be able to do is a b a b, and when a/b runs out c d c d.
My use case is that I want to listen to my news podcasts first as they become stale fast, and then alternate between my less time sensitive podcasts.
Alternation is awesome, but the feature that was requested here would make it exactly what I want.
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Poutnik commented
I understand now, how it works.
It is not bad approach, but it has tendency to ignore sorting criteria for podcast portfolio with big difference in episode counts.
But it would be handy sometimes, if it would not perform alternation on the whole sorted list, but ,on items with the same sort criteria values.
E.g. Alternating podcasts with the same priority and release day, then going for the next.
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@Poutnik
The app applies you sortings, then it will make sure to alternate episodes by podcasts -
Poutnik commented
Hmm, it either does not work like described, or I do not understand it.
I have sort set as By priority high first, then by Short publication date, old first, then Alternate Podcasts. I have expected, within the same priority and date, it will alternate podcasts,
But it respect neither date order, neither priority order is kept.
It looks like picking alternates for the sorted list, but the exact algorithm is unclear to me. -
@Poutnik
It won't work like that.
The app alternate podcasts based on the result of the whole sorting settings -
Poutnik commented
Hm, but how to manage the following:
- Sort by Priority ( High first )
- Alternate Podcasts
- Within a podcast, play old episodes firstAs for now, it sorts podcasts as newer first.
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Toby commented
Right, but it will still alternate through all the podcasts in order of priority. I was suggesting that you could have it sort by priority first, so that it would play all the episodes from your high priority podcasts before playing any from lower priority podcasts.