How do I manage a new podcast subscription where there are hundreds of episodes?
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One podcast I subscribe to have over 900 episodes. When I subscribe to a new podcast that has a large number of episodes available, they aren’t time sensitive and I want to listen to all the episodes, I don’t have a nice way to deal with this in Pocket Casts that I’m aware of anyway. One idea I have is to have all the episodes from each podcast stacked in the filter display, with the oldest one on top. Is there a suggested way to deal with a new subscription to a mature podcast with a large number of available episodes?
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The way that I have personally managed this is to archive all of the older episodes when I first follow the podcast. Then I go and unarchive the oldest handful of episodes.
This will let those unarchived episodes show up in the Filters I have setup without the podcast becoming too overwhelming. Then, once I’ve listened to the last of those episodes, I go back into the podcast’s details view and unarchive the next handful of episodes.
We have heard from others that would like a more elegant solution for this type of scenario. We haven’t been able to quite come up with the right one yet, but hopefully we’ll land on one at some point to improve the experience.
If you have any suggestions of how something like this could work, please let us know! I’d be happy to forward it along to our development team as a feature request.
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Thank you for responding. One idea I have is maybe an option to stack all episodes of each podcast in a filter, with the oldest episode on top.
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@dogzilla100 thank you for the suggestion! I’ve forwarded this along to our development team for consideration!
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I have also found a way to create my own RSS feed by extracting all the *.MP3 filenames from the original RSS feed, then creating a new private RSS feed that updates daily/weekly, etc. Pretty unconventional, but it works. I’m not sure the owners of the podcast want me doing that, but their *.MP3 files are exposed to the internet.
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@dogzilla100 there are also services like HuffDuffer which let you create a personalized podcast feed of episodes you find on the web that you can listen to later. It could be used for managing and listening to the backlog of specific podcasts.
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