Instead of totally Skipping intros or Outros, please give us the option to speed them up instead
I understand that there is a setting to totally “skip intros or outros”, but I’m always afraid that I’m going to miss content in the podcast if I turn this on. Please create a setting that plays the first so many or last so many seconds of a podcast at a faster speed that we could specify. On a per podcast basis, if I could tell it to play the last 30 seconds or last 60 seconds at double speed, that would be a great feature that no competing podcast app has.
Here is my suggestion:
1) In Custom Settings for a Podcast series, these settings could be added under Player settings in the Skip Intro & Skip Outro sections.
2) The user would still enter the number of seconds to skip.
3) Optionally, the user could specify the speed to play those so many seconds before reverting to the podcast's default speed.
4) This last point isn't a must have, but a huge bonus would be if PA made a sound at the end of a speed up or at the beginning of one. This would give an audible clue that the app has left the sped up mode for an intro or entered the sped up mode for the outro.