I too would really like the ability to remove the "new" tag without having to mark it as "read". It would also be great to have the option to choose whether previous episodes of a podcast you subscribe to are tagged as new or not.
For example, there are several podcasts I have subscribed to that have a back catalogue of 100+ episodes. I will only listen to a small handful as I have time. Like others have mentioned, marking all as read means I won't know which I have listened to but not marking them as read means that the orange new episodes flag is useless. It means that the current arrangement doesn't give me the information that it intends to.
Dan
I too would really like the ability to remove the "new" tag without having to mark it as "read". It would also be great to have the option to choose whether previous episodes of a podcast you subscribe to are tagged as new or not.
For example, there are several podcasts I have subscribed to that have a back catalogue of 100+ episodes. I will only listen to a small handful as I have time. Like others have mentioned, marking all as read means I won't know which I have listened to but not marking them as read means that the orange new episodes flag is useless. It means that the current arrangement doesn't give me the information that it intends to.