A combined normal and archive listening downloading scheme
Some of the podcasts I listen to have hundreds of episodes. I would like to listen to all the old ones, but I would also like to listen to the new ones as they come out. As I see it, I can currently ( Sept 2018) choose one of those but not both. I would like to have a mode that works like archive normally, but whenever it goes to download a new archive episode, it checks if the most recent episode is listened to and if not, downloads that one instead of the archive episode. That would be very convenient.
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Jonathan Kift commented
This would also be great if I want to do a "re-listen" to a beloved podcast while still keeping up-to-date with the latest episodes.
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Denis Lynch commented
This is precisely what I expected Archive to do from the way the descriptive text is written. As it is now, though, when an update discovers a new episode in Archive mode, it does nothing -- it leaves some old episode downloaded and does nothing about the new one.
I would much prefer that podcast update download new episodes when they are found, and only consider Archive mode if there are no (or not enough) new episodes.
This might result in the newest old episode being downloaded multiple times. For example, a podcast that comes out M-F will download the new episode on Monday, which will mean that the old downloaded episodes now exceed the limit, so one gets discarded. Then on Saturday there's no new episode, so (perhaps) that same old episode gets downloaded again. But that doesn't seem like a problem.
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Bruce commented
When I get it right, you suggests to have always as many as possible episodes downloaded, starting with the youngest up to a limit.
I really like this idea and having the same proposal:
In case a new episode is published, podcast addict behaves like wanted, when *archive mode is disabled* and maximal one episode has been listened to since the previous episode has been published.
The problem starts, when new episodes are less frequent published than listened to.
Then the idea is, that older episodes should be downloaded up to the limit, meaning it should behave like the *archive mode* until a new episode is published.