How do I autoplay I’m chronological order instead of reverse?
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Mike, if the recently released “Playlists” feature was the one in development that might address this request, it does not.
if you could create a Smart List with a rule to add by “release date” and the option was for “oldest” (or, for some people, “newest”) it might work. But with the current options, the functionality we’re asking for still doesn’t exist.
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Hi, @conklin94122! It looks like Mike was indeed referring to Playlists.
if you could create a Smart List with a rule to add by “release date” and the option was for “oldest” (or, for some people, “newest”) it might work. But with the current options, the functionality we’re asking for still doesn’t exist.
What do you think of a Smart Playlist that has the sort order set from “Oldest to Newest”? You can set that as follows:
- On the Playlist’s page, tap the three-dot icon on the upper-right corner
- Next to “Sort by”, select “Oldest to newest”
Whenever new episodes are added to the podcast, the playlist should retain your sort order. And whenever you play the playlist, it should play from the oldest episode to the newest one. Can you see if that works for you?
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Just want to “+1” the request to play podcasts chronologically.
The advice to reverse the sort is suboptimal, as the podcast I most listen to publishes four or five times per day (currently there are 1908 extant episodes). I don’t need to listen to them all, but I would like to listen to the most recent four or six of them, oldest to newest. Reversing the sort to enable an oldest-to-newest play requires scrolling down nearly 2000 episodes before I can get started.
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@bflaminio thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. I can understand why our current solution isn’t great in all situations. I’ll forward this comment along to our development team for their consideration.
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We are almost 2.5 years from the OP and this hasn’t been changed/fixed?
This is an incredibly common request and should be a simple programming/engineering fix.
I just switched to Pocketcasts a few months ago but will be looking for another app now, this is crazy.
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How is this not an option? It should be incredibly simple to have a setting to play the next episode chronologically (as in the next newest episode) instead of the next oldest episode. Many podcasts operate along a multi episode arc where you want to start with the first episode of the arc and continue through it.
Neither playlists nor sort order is satisfactory. I don’t want to have to choose what I want to listen to in advance of my trip. And I also don’t want the sort order to go back to the beginning of the podcast’s existence just to play in the proper order.
Simply add an option to settings to play next in ascending rather than descending order.
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