Using Exoplayer as the internal play for Podcast Addict would fix some issues I have with HLS streams (that I use for Radio Stations).

One example is that Podcast Addict does not honour the EXT-X-START:TIME-OFFSET tag in HLS level event playlist. I'm sure there may be others.

Exoplayer is open source and could be integrated into Podcast Addict as another optional media player

I often go to the "All" section of the sliding menu and do a search for a keyword so I can add all related episodes across all my subscriptions to the playlist. It would be great if I could save the search to easily run it repeatedly.

When I play a radio station, it'll show the current song on my phone, but once I use chromecast, the screen changes and current song is replaced by (translated) "Casting to Living room".

FYI TuneIn Radio is able to show the current song whilst casting.

Automatic cleanup allows one to specify a maximum number of episodes of a podcast to be downloaded at any one time. I would like to be able also to specify the minimum number of episodes of a podcast to be downloaded at any one time.

If many podcasts are present, it is a bit difficult to navigate or scroll to a specific podcast (to rely on the podcast icon is not of great help, if in grid mode, at least). To filter or search by name would help...

It would be very nice to be able to add Instagram pages to the podcast list since there are tons of accounts that share short videocasts on Instagram.

I wish the possibility to choose the number of loop when the playlist is set to auto and the podcast is in alternate. I want to randomize my playlist but listen the last episode of each podcast and not in random of all my podcast

A search function to quickly find podcasts in your grid. I have ~100 podcast subscriptions and it isn't always easy to pick out the podcast I'm looking for when scrolling through my grid layout. Would be cool to click on a magnifying glass button at the top of the screen and start typing the name of the podcast I'm looking for in my subscriptions. It would then return the podcast I'm looking for and I could click that to enter the list of the podcast's episodes.

When I simply scroll the playlist I can see by the indicator on the right the relative position of what's visible. I do this to locate where I wish to insert a new episode. However, when I drag the episode say from the bottom there is no indicator on the right making it difficult to estimate where I am in the playlist as it auto scrolls.

I'd like to have the scroll position indicator available during the auto scroll.

Sometimes episodes have cover art that's a reference to something in the show, or maybe I just want to get a better look. There's currently no way to zoom in or even see it full size on the screen. It's the only thing I've thought was lacking in the app for four years.

would be great to have an Android Activity or a shortcut (or even a widget) to instantly toggle between fast and regular speed from home screen or elsewhere.

this would be helpful for speeding up the talking portions of a music podcast without skipping them altogether.

I know it's minor, but the album art picture makes my fancy customized screen look uglier, and makes the widget bigger than it has to be. Removing the picture from a version of the widget would be nice. Giving the existing art a configurable transparency would be okay too. Otherwise, I really like your widget!

When I use Chromecast, the intros are skipped just as if I am on bluetooth in the car. However, when using Chromecast, the outros are not skipped. Could we get skipping of last 'X' seconds feature to work while casting?

Thank you in advance.

Hi,
Is-it possible to keep Podcast addict always Open ?
My problem is when I shut down my phone (Galaxy S7) or hard-close the app. Podcast addict and my podcast start not automatically again when I plug my Bluetooth headphone.
Thk
Stan

Add a filter to show only the podcasts that I recently subscribed to. (like in the past month or two.

When the phone vibrates because the sleep timer is about to expire, the volume immediately goes down, making me miss several seconds of the episode. After vibration there should be maybe 15 seconds or so before the volume starts to fade. That would give the user time to reach for the phone and shake it.

Ever since the recent update that changed the notification behaviour in such a way that closing it is not done by swiping but by hitting the X in the notification the close all notifications button doesn't close the player notification. This has broken my automate script that closes all my notifications, including the player, when I turn off my car and the Bluetooth disconnects.
Please add the option to swipe the notification away back in along with the X button, maybe as a setting if some users don't want it.