When choosing what to keep and what to delete from the recycle bin, I find the podcast title, with only a tiny square of art work, to be unreadable. Track titles are truncated and useless. I'm finding that, increasingly, PA has too many features I'll never use and not enough basic accessibility. I've told you before about virtual podcasts being given unreadable artwork like white text on yellow background but you don't seem to want to do anything. People need readable, accessible, apps.

When sorting by file name, use intelligent file numbering so that "file 2" will come before "file 10". That is the way most file managers are able to recognize the numeric portion of the file name. Currently it sorts the other way around ("file 10" will sort before "file 2")

I loved and used the "recent episodes" widget for years, and with the most recent update, it vanished for me on Android. Please restore it as a widget choice.

Add an option to set an individual podcast to download the oldest episode each time the automatic download runs at my preset times (5am & 5pm). I like listening to the earliest episodes of podcasts before listening to the newest episodes, I don't want to go into each podcast and download a single episode.

Would be nice to have a playlist option do play a random episode.

When adding a considerable amount of episodes to the playlist, sometimes I feel like wanting to listen to a random episode without having to sort or scrolling through the list.

Quick player (Android 12?) Already shows play/stop and fast fwd buttons for Podcast Addict. A rewind button (go back 10secs) would be great!

When searching for podcasts we can already search on spoken language such as English or any other language
I would like to have something like trending in a particular region, for example trending in the Netherlands or in Belgium, or whatever country you're from. A bit (hate to say it 😞) a way it works in pocket casts.

Either from downloaded or last episodes, we have a single quick button (download or play). Can we also have an add to Playlist shortcut?

Be able to select multiple podcasts and open their episode lists together, instead of just one at a time.
Example: I work past episodes of select shows into my rotation and have to run through the Downloaded Episodes menu. I'd rather be able to pull up the "Selected Podcasts" instead of all of them.

I loved and used the "recent episodes" widget for years, and with the most recent update, it canished for me on Android. Please restore it as a widget choice.

Could this app have an quick bookmark feature? Just press it and bookmark is added? Now to add anonymous bookmark (without any text) takes 5 (!!!) clicks. It makes great feature of bookmarking unusable.

I played an episode that was in the middle of the playlist. I was surprised when the episode finished and, instead of continuing with the next episode in the playlist, it went to the beginning of the playlist. I would have expected to continue with the next episode.

I just realized that this might be a bug, since the option is already there ("Play from top") and I have it turned off.

Coming from Doggcatcher, I've found it very nice that you sort the feeds in the Feeds screen, and then the playlist is sorted in the same way.

You could use Priority for this but that means seeing priorities for every single podcast and trouble if you don't think ahead and leave enough room between numbers

Auto-add next available episode to playlist based on sort order of podcasts x, y, z ...etc at specific times
IE
At 5am, add 1 episode of 3 podcasts to the playlist so they're queued for my morning commute. At 4pm, add 1 episode of 4 different podcasts so they're queued for my evening commute

I just want it to play episode 1, then episode 2, then 3. I don't want to pull over every time an episode ends. This is ridiculous. It's supposed to be for driving, right? And there's no way to automatically play the next episode? It's illegal for me to touch my phone to play the next episode while driving.

Can you add a pinned tile in the Podcasts tile screen that acts like a button to go to my Playlist? I spend a lot of time flipping between Podcasts and Playlist.

Or an alternative way to achieve that goal is a segment/tab view-switcher between Playlist and Podcasts views.

Thanks

This is so that you don't need to either: start playing the podcast so you can get to the chapters screen from the Player screen, or have to go to the Podcasts then the podcast you want then the episode. I just want to check the chapters of a podcast before it starts to play without all these extra clicks. All it would take is adding this option in the long press options on the Playlist screen.