This is precisely what I expected Archive to do from the way the descriptive text is written. As it is now, though, when an update discovers a new episode in Archive mode, it does nothing -- it leaves some old episode downloaded and does nothing about the new one.
I would much prefer that podcast update download new episodes when they are found, and only consider Archive mode if there are no (or not enough) new episodes.
This might result in the newest old episode being downloaded multiple times. For example, a podcast that comes out M-F will download the new episode on Monday, which will mean that the old downloaded episodes now exceed the limit, so one gets discarded. Then on Saturday there's no new episode, so (perhaps) that same old episode gets downloaded again. But that doesn't seem like a problem.
This is precisely what I expected Archive to do from the way the descriptive text is written. As it is now, though, when an update discovers a new episode in Archive mode, it does nothing -- it leaves some old episode downloaded and does nothing about the new one.
I would much prefer that podcast update download new episodes when they are found, and only consider Archive mode if there are no (or not enough) new episodes.
This might result in the newest old episode being downloaded multiple times. For example, a podcast that comes out M-F will download the new episode on Monday, which will mean that the old downloaded episodes now exceed the limit, so one gets discarded. Then on Saturday there's no new episode, so (perhaps) that same old episode gets downloaded again. But that doesn't seem like a problem.