Mark podcast as listened when is 95% done
When a podcast is done, I skip to the next in queue. I dont want to listen to the entire outro.
As it is now, this leaves a bunch of 99% listened podcasts in my playlist, which is annoying.
I will add a new setting to allow skipping episodes outro.
This will be a podcast custom setting.
You will have to select the number of seconds to skip at the end of the podcast. Once this threshold is reached the app will consider that the episode has been fully listened to so depending on your settings it will be marked as read, deleted, removes from the playlist and the resume position will be reset.
This will be release in v3.4
Edit: Available in the latest beta.
Feel free to test it and to give me some feedback
Thanks
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Olaf Marzocchi commented
My idea was to verify the criteria (95% completed AND no more than 30s left) every time the user perform an action (manually) that involves "getting out of the podcast" (skip to new, stop and get out of the playing screen, quitting the app, ...). If the criteria are me, the same routines that would usually run at completion would be called already.
Also, since this behaviour requires the user to do something manually just before the end (30 seconds or less), I would not place any additional setting to configure this period: the app is already offering too many settings and with the criteria I suggested there are basically no cases where the intended behaviour differs from my suggestion. Keep it simple, the task of the developer is also to take some choices for the user to make his/her life simpler. This is not UNIX of the '80s :)
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Carlo commented
That's the idea. Several podcasts have closing adds and we don't want to hear them all to the end. So it would mark the podcast as read, delete it and move to the next some X seconds before the end (just as you have the option to skip the beginning)
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For now you can simply accomplish this by long pressing the next episode button.
The app will then delete current episode, mark it read and remove it from the playlist.I can add a new setting that will mark the episodes as read once it has been listened to above xx%, but what about deleting the file and removing it from the playlist ?
I can't do this automatically otherwise you will never be able to listen to the end of the file, so you will have some unfinished downloaded file on your device memory as well as in the playlist...Can you please describe the intended behavior ?
The more comments, the better ;)Thanks
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abc def commented
x% with option to override on a per podcast basis
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Olaf Marzocchi commented
It should be in second from the end and not in percent, but the feature is useful.
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Carlo commented
I like Susanna's idea. It would be perfect to avoid the closing ads.
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Elliot Huffman commented
@Cosme P. Had a great idea.
I think that an option in settings would be the best idea:
Podcasts that are more than {user entered value goes here}% complete are marked as read.
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gerardo commented
found a way to avoid having unfinished episodes: Go to settings, automatic clean up. Untick 'Once listened to'. Then, in the player, when you want to skip the outro, long press the next track button. Of course, to do this, you must enable long press deletion.
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Cosme P. Cuevas commented
An option in Player menu for "Stop & mark read"...
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simon lambert commented
>> Paul Mansfield wrote:
>> If you skip to next item then you chould be asked
>> if you want to mark as listened and dequeue and (if this is enabled) delete.Exactly, isn't it much easier to code and understand than a percentage? In "Google Listen" skip could mean remove.
After all, there are other ways to switch between episodes if you want to get back to one of them later.
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Talvi commented
I would prefer a per-podcast setting in seconds, similar to Player offset, to skip the end credits on some podcasts. The playlist would automatically advance to the next item, and delete the previous one.
I listen to podcasts on my commute while biking, so my hands are not free to go to the next track or press fast forward manually.
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If you long press on the previous track / next track button you can choose if you want to delete / dequeue current episode or not. It won't reset the episode resume position. If you want to do so, just drag the time slider to the right.
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Paul Mansfield commented
If you skip to next item then you chould be asked if you want to mark as listened and dequeue and (if this is enabled) delete.
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I'm thinking about adding a new setting that will reset the resume position (and then remove the episode from the Read in Progress filter) when an episode is deleted.
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Jay Knight commented
I use the fast-forward button when I reach the outro music... this usually jumps to the end (sometimes just a few seconds short, maybe I press it again), marking it complete, deleting it and starting the next.
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Jon commented
I agree with the concept, but using a percentage of total length might 'unexpected results' since podcasts vary wildly in length. In a ten minute podcast, 95% is only 30 seconds from the end; in a 5-hour podcast, 95% is 15 minutes from the end. I'd prefer a fixed (configurable) duration.