Feature request: custom Up Next option
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Hi!
I’d like to suggest a new option.
Currently, for each podcast, it is possible to enable the ‘add to up next’ option and select Position ‘play next’ on the mobile apps (I didn’t check on desktop, the option is there on Android).
Let’s take for example a daily podcast, with the episodes starting on Monday – episodes A, B, C, D and E will be the episodes for this week. Let’s enable the play next option.
Let’s call episode 0 whatever I’m currently playing on Pocket Casts.
On monday, episode A will be added to the Up Next list. The Up Next list is now.
- 0 -> A
However, if I don’t start listening to this episode, on Tuesday I’ll find the following list
- 0 -> B -> A
and if I don’t listen to any episode for the week I’ll have the reversed
- 0 -> E -> D -> C -> B ->A
order by the end of the week.
It may also happen that I just don’t have time in the middle of the week and I find myself in
- C -> E -> D
during the weekend. I need to change the order manually every time :)
So, my suggestion is logically easy but I don’t know the actual code of the apps :)
- Add an option ‘Up Next but after the latest episode of the same podcast’
So, any new episode of this specific podcast will be added after the latest episode of the same podcast – but before any episode of other podcasts.
Keeping the same example, let’s add a new podcast with numbers (episodes 0, 1, 2…).
Example of initial situation:
- 0 -> A -> 1
Episode B is out, before the proposed change
- 0 -> B -> A -> 1
After the proposed change
- 0 -> A -> B -> 1
If 2 gets out, before the change
0 -> 2 -> A -> 1 (A mess :) )
After the change
0 -> A -> 1 -> 2
Hopefully I was clear enough :)
I think this should be an option alongside ‘Play Next’ and ‘Play Last’.
Let me know if I was not clear!
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this! I’ve forwarded this along to our development team to take into consideration!
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