How do I autoplay I’m chronological order instead of reverse?
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Another vote for this. It makes little sense to listen newest-to-oldest in the vast majority of cases. I downloaded Pocket Casts as a supposed improvement over Apple Podcasts, but I’m going to delete PC after realizing it can’t do this, and you have to select episode by episode.
Will check back in some number of months if I can remember to do so. Hope this can be fixed.
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@lidiaseventeen thank you for your feedback on this! I’ll make sure your comments get added to our internal feature requests board!
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It’s great to see our votes being added to wherever they are added thanks, and this request seems to have considerable support for what in every other podcast player is a base line feature.
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@skiernz While user votes and feedback play an important role in our decision-making process, they’re just one part of a bigger picture. Rest assured that all requests are reviewed by our team. If and when it makes sense for the product, we’ll definitely look into implementing it. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience and continued support!
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Sorry new to the forum as I was searching the exact same issue. For people transferring into the app this is a key requirement as the app wont know where you are in tour listening history, and even for podcasts where it’s not a strick requirement will still od callbacks to previous episodes, so its important for them to be played in the chronological order.
Is there a place for users to upvote requests, rather than you manually recording them? If not then please add my request into the list. This might help better establish how important people think this (Dec-23) request is.
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Hi @pocketcasts2b09887142 – We keep track of requests and votes internally, so I’ve added your vote to the list. Thanks for your input!
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Any chance this has been added yet? I try to use this app while driving, and having to pull over to set up the play order is a real pain in the keester. I was trying to listen to a history podcast and it was jarring when it jumped ahead 400 years in one go because it jumped to the most recent episode.
Honestly I’d think that playing in release date order would generally be the default or at the very least a common setting. But maybe people have a different general use-case for podcasts that I don’t use. -
Does this have an issue in github yet? I haven’t been able to find it if it does, would like to subscribe to it so I can be notified of any progress.
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wow, almost the two year anniversary of my request for this startlingly basic feature that many users agree should be standard.
What exactly is preventing someone at the company from just taking an afternoon and implementing this already? It’s almost like it’s being conspicuously avoided?
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Hi @cryanhorner @conklin94122 @aagablog
I’ve added your feedback to our internal tracker. We don’t really use GitHub for feature requests, we have an internal tool for this, however, you are welcome to also log them in GitHub.
Our team has a lot of feature requests coming in each hour, but they prioritise adding features which get the most requests and makes most sense to add. This feature is something that they will consider when deciding on new features to add.
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This is crazy! I can’t believe this isn’t the most-requested feature.
It’s just *normal* to want to listen to things in chronological order.
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@lidiaseventeen This isn’t our most requested feature yet, but we’re working hard to keep improving the app based on what users want, so thank you for sharing your comments.
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I would like to add my vote to this, and reiterate previous comments. How is this not a feature already, how has it taken so long to add such a simple option, and how is this not the most requested update. I’m looking for alternatives to spotify, and unless fixed, this is the only reason I won’t be choosing this app.
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Mine is doing what I want now.
I archived all the episodes older than those I want to see if necessary (say all before 2024 ). I open the podcast settings and I see Sort Podcast: Oldest to Newest. Not downloading anything. Not grouping episodes. And I have it set to archive as soon as I finish listening to an episode. I see all my wanted episodes in the list (2024 and newer), and I have the titles for older ones I can unarchived if needed. So what is this not doing that we’re discussing? I’m old. I forgot what the problem is!
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@stevet2015 Appreciate you sharing what’s working for you. Thank you!
@nathanimation1474 I’ll still add a vote for the feature on your behalf, in case the above workaround doesn’t do what you need.
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i don’t think it’s a workaround. As I understand it this is how it’s supposed to work, correct? So what’s not working for people?
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Just wanted to say that this is the reason I’m going to be dropping Pocket Casts even though I bought it a long time ago. I only occasionally used it, but I’ve been really getting into podcasts lately and I genuinely thought I was just missing something. It’s unbelievable that this isn’t a baseline feature, and it’s even MORE unbelievable that it seems like it’s something impossible for you guys to add. It’s been two years and you’re just tallying votes? What features could be so much more demanded than this? Sorry to sound so frustrated, but it really is a dealbreaker. I hope you will add my vote and actually add a feature people want. I’ll be dropping Pocket Casts as my main player, though.
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Just to add on a bit – even something as simple as a “select all” would greatly alleviate this issue. Having to tediously select individual episodes (and you better do it in the right order, because for some reason it will sort based on selected order instead of chronological order) basically kills my motivation to listen to podcasts with a lot of short episodes (for example, a Japanese learning podcast).
This is completely unnecessary user friction – you would get people to stay in the app for a lot longer by making it super easy to just start listening to something. Hell, even just adding a gesture to drag down the screen to select episodes while holding down would be welcome. There are a lot of potential solutions with varying degrees of implementation headache (I have no idea what your backend looks like, of course) and it frustrates me that the option chosen seems to be “not trying” from the outside looking in.
I really hope you bump this up in priority because I genuinely can’t think of any other features I would need or want this app to have except for this one. It’s genuinely such a good and useful app and I much prefer it over basically all the others I’ve tried except for this one feature. Apologies for the rant, I wanted to end on a good note at least.
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Just to refresh this. This 100% is still my most requested feature. See my notes above for why. :D
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@poultronic thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. This type of feature is something our developers are eager to tackle and may be addresses for most users with a feature we’re currently working on. But we’re not quite ready to share the details on that yet. Hopefully we’ll have something soon. :)
@aagablog thank you!
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