Feature Request: auto-download and auto add to up next from oldest to newest
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I have several podcasts that I’m catching up on that have dozens or hundreds of episodes, and I want to listen to them from oldest to newest. I also have many podcasts that I am caught up on and listen to their new episodes.
Also, I want to auto-download those episodes and auto add them to my Up Next queue.
I can get partway there with filters, can manage to auto-download oldest unlistened, but can’t find a way to also auto-add to Up Next.
I don’t want to use Play All, as that will wipe my Up Next queue.
Example: I am subscribed to a dozen podcasts that I’m caught up on, and Pocket Casts will automatically download new episodes and add them to my Up Next queue, and do it perfectly. Now, I come across Welcome to Night Vale, a fiction podcast with a couple hundred episodes, that I want to listen to, in order, from episode 1 to episode 270. I’d like Pocket Casts to download and enqueue episode 1 and put it at the bottom of my Up Next, and once I get around to listening to that episode, I’d like Pocket Casts to download and enqueue episode 2. And so on and so on.
I checked several pages of Feature Requests and did a couple searches and couldn’t find exactly this request. Apologies if I missed it.
FWIW, the iOS Podcasts app from Apple used to do this until they did their big app overhaul a few years back, and they removed this functionality. That’s when I moved to Pocket Casts.
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Hi, @conklin94122! You’re right. There isn’t currently a way to do things exactly as you wish in the app. At most, you can set a particular podcast to have Auto Add to Up Next enabled from Profile > Settings (gear icon) > Auto Add to Up Next. Then, you can enable “Up Next” in Profile > Settings (gear icon) > Auto Download. However, there’s currently no way to do it in reverse (automatically download, then add to the Up Next queue). In addition, the order won’t be in the exact order you want.
That said, we do have an open feature request for Playlists, which has gained quite a bit of traction. I believe that this would do what you need if it’s implemented. I’ve gone ahead and added a vote for it on your behalf, but do let us know if you’d still like a separate feature request opened.
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