Settings presets instead of overriding settings for each podcast individually
I have two main types of podcasts I am listening too.
- Story based podcasts This type of Podcast tells a story over multiple episodes. The content often isn't related to the current events but can be listened years after publication. The episodes build on one another. An example would be 'Serial'. The listening order should be the order of publication. For this kind I override the settings like this:
Automatic download: yes
Archive mode: yes
Download older first: yes
Automatic playlist: yes
Delete: no
I sort the podcast by date, old->new
- News based podcasts This podcasts often are related more to current events like news podcasts or talk podcasts. Newer published episodes are more interesting than older ones and there often is huge archive of episodes which is impossible to catch up if one would start with episode #1. The episodes aren't really connected or at least can be understood if listened to individually. I haven't listened to it but I think 'The Nerdist' would be an example. My settings for such a podcast would be:
Automatic download: yes
Archive mode: no
Download older first: no
Automatic playlist: no
Delete: yes
I sort the podcast by date, new->old
Right now I set all this settings for each podcast individually. I could decide to set the default settings to eg. kind one and only override the other kind. But I would always forget which kind I've chosen as default.
I think it would be great if I could create such a set of settings and give it title. Some other users would need maybe 4-5 different kind of presets. I think I would be served with these two.
If I add a new cast I would have only chose from one of these presets and don't have to think which worked best for this kind of cast (I don't remember all the settings so I have to read through the whole menu every time).
Another benefit would be that you could change a setting and it would be set to all the similar podcasts as well.
Also included in this request is the option that there is the possibility to set different sorting settings per podcast.
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Anon commented
@Xavier Guillemane
Settings per category would be awesome. I don't care about sorting at all but the download part is important to me. I only have two categories. Auto Download and Manual Download. Right now I have to override every podcast to get what I want. Which is a pain for 30+ podcasts.
I believe a lot of people would find this useful for a variety of use cases.
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@Tyler Martin
You can already do that by enabling Settings/Display/Podcast/Custom sorting
Please send me an email in case you have any question (Settings/feedback)
Thanks -
Tyler Martin commented
In short: sort order individually linked to, and potentially different for, each subscription.
If that's what henning is getting at - I'm on board.