Allow podcast-by-podcast control of display order
With the rise of serial podcasts, listening in release order becomes important, and should be displayed in release order (i.e. oldest to newest). With more "newsy" or stand-alone podcasts, I would prefer that the most recent episodes were bubbled to the top (newest to oldest).
A second, related, suggestion:
Because I subscribe to a lot of different podcasts, I will often go through the list of episodes, and manually download the ones with topics or guests that are of particular interest to me. It would be helpful if there was an option to display already-downloaded episodes at the top the play list.
Because I do the majority of my podcast listening while I'm in the car, these two options (which could be used separately or in combination) would mean a lot less scrolling and reading while I'm trying to drive: the episodes I'm most interested in hearing would be the first displayed for each podcast.
Both these options would be vastly more useful if they were defined podcast by podcast.
Please enable Settings/Display/Podcast/Custom sorting to enable this feature
If you select the ‘By Download date’ sorting mode, downloaded episodes will be displayed first
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@Curt
It looks like I understood exactly what you were asking for.
So, as I said in my previous answer please go into Setting/Display/Podcast and enable Custom sorting so every podcast can then have its own sorting.
I also explained how to have downloaded files displayed first by changing the podcast sorting -
Curt commented
I don't think you understood the suggestion(s). This is indeed available as a global option, but because of the different types of podcasts, should be settable on a podcast-by-podcast basis (I want to see serial podcasts displayed in release order, and "newsy" podcasts to be displayed from newest to oldest.
Also, please consider the second suggestion, as well, which would allow already-downloaded podcasts to be bubbled to the top of the playlist. I download podcasts only with wi-fi, and listen to them when I'm out and about, so am uninterested in non-downloaded episodes when I'm in my car or at the gym.