I'd suggest changing behavior based on whether a phone is in car mode or not.
Maybe add a separate 'settings' section for 'when in car mode', allowing the user to specify things like
- panel to start up in (playlist/player/podcasts
- font size
- display mode

Many of us listen to podcasts while driving. The UI needs are different in an 'eyes busy/hands busy' situation

I'm a new Android user coming from iPhone. 1 feature I used a lot on my old player on IOS was to set a number of unplayed episodes.

I follow 1 podcast publishing 5 new episodes/day, and normally I only listen to the morning episode. This creates a lot of cleanup per day.

I only delete episodes using this option and I usually do it when there's not enough storage space to download new episodes.

After the deletion is done, the number of deleted episodes is shown, which is great. Though, I would prefer to see the number before hitting that delete button, so that I can decide whether it's worth it.

(This piece of information could also be useful to guess how long the deletion would take:

• "Delete all read episodes(20 049)"

-- Ok, I now can expect this to take more than just a few seconds.)

So maybe this is already a feature and I just can't figure out how to enable it, but it would be great if the ID3 "Comments" field were displayed in the player when listening to an Audiobook.

Thanks

Bonjour,

Tout d'abord félicitations pour l'application elle est superbe !
Je me permets de venir vers vous afin de vous suggérer une idée pour l'améliorer : la création d'un mode clair (avec du blanc ou des couleurs) au choix de l'utilisateurs afin de mettre un peu de gaieté lorsque l'on utilise. Le noir partout c'est déprimant surtout lorsqu'il ne fait pas beau dehors 😅.
Je vous souhaite une bonne fin de journée.
Cordialement.

When you're using the player (and to a lesser extent, other screens), there are so many options on the triple for menu (store with check marks and sub menus) that it feels cluddered.
If it was changed to a left drawer, then you could separate it into sections like: Audio (volume boost, mono, skip silence), Share, Podcast (episodes, description, rate, website)

Permit more than one virtual podcast point to the same directory. So files can be discriminated by tag/name after that. Within the ivoox folder it will be useful to keep listening ivoox originals titles in your app.

At 6 am, it would be nice to waken to meditation or heavy metal podcast, what have you. Clock radios suck.

Enable the possibility to automatic Full backup On Google Drive.
At specific moment (avery day, every week, every hour, ecc ecc)

When I search and then subscribe to a podcast I want to be able to e.g. immediately add it to a category of my own. This is currently not possibleb(?). I need to switch back to the main screenn(home screen, podcasts), search the newly added one and then apply the customisation.

The existing wifi-filter requires to add each new WiFi network that is added. I would like to download on any WiFi network EXCEPT one specific one (metered). Could you add functionality to avoid downloading on selected WiFi networks? Thanks, amazing progress so far, long time apostle!

Being able to organize the covers on the main page manually, like app icons on a phone

I typically want to download only over WiFi. But sometimes, like when I'm traveling and might not have reliable WiFi, I still want to keep high-priority podcasts up to date. It would be nice if I could override my default network setting for specific podcasts only to allow syncing via mobile data, especially if it were coupled with a qualifier like "if not synced within X hours," so that it would automatically go into effect of I haven't been able to sync via WiFi recently.

I would love if you could change the design of rewind and forward buttons to make them look like in all podcast apps because the current buttons look like they are going to skip or return to a different episode.
Thanks.

It a feature that allowed us to normalize audio volume so the volume of sounds were the same it would be awesome and extremely useful because some podcasts have wild volume variations.

Thanks.

Add an option to the long-press menu on an item in the playlist to only play the episodes from the top through the one selected.

I would be very appreciate if this app will be able to work with alexa.

I usually listen to an audio book with the sleep timer when trying to fall asleep. Sometimes my 20 minute timer gets me through 3 files and sometimes I don't complete any files. Either way, I have to go back and see what I remember hearing. It would be easier to do this if the completed files were kept on the play list.

Podcast episode art containing high frequency information is subject to aliasing, which causes splotchy patterns in the thumbnails displayed in the episode lists and next to the progress bar at the bottom of the screen. (E.g. the crosshatch pattern on "The Weeds" by Vox)

I suggest you blur the images with a rect or gaussian filter before downsampling to reduce aliasing.