Listen to episodes in sequential order
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I like to listen to my podcast episodes in sequential order, starting from the beginning.
How do I set it up so that when Episode 1 is done playing, then Episode 2 is automatically downloaded and added to Up Next?
It seems like all features are related to New episodes, but I’m not caught up with any of the podcasts on my list and if i start a new (to me) podcast in the middle, then i’m missing out on format changes and inside jokes from the last 50 episodes.I just want to listen to episodes in order or release date and not have to download every episode manually.
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Hello @khutch288ef6f735fd,
That’s a great request! I’ll submit this to the team on your behalf for future consideration.
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Hi.
Just out of interest, has this feature been addressed. Having transferred my podcast listening from Player FM recently this is the one aspect that I do miss that I haven’t identified a solution for. Both of these options were present in other podcast listening apps but applied in slightly differing ways. The same would be useful in the web app.
The ability to binge listen to a podcast series without having to reset the next up back to the next episode in sequence.
Listen to ‘historic’ podcasts in sequence order and download the next un-listened episode for next up, not the most recent episode.
In addition the ability to archive all previous episodes to a specific point rather than just all episodes would have been very useful after my transfer.
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@seajaycampbell we did not implement this specific feature as yet, but we did add an autoplay feature in our app: https://support.pocketcasts.com/knowledge-base/autoplay/
If that feature is enabled and you have an empty Up Next queue, you can go to a podcast page, set the ‘Sort episodes’ option to ‘Oldest to newest’, then play the oldest episode first and it will play the episodes in that order so the newest episode will be played last.
That said, the feature request is still being looked into by our team, so I’ve added your feedback to the request.
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Hi Joey
Thanks for this. It looks potentially usable. I’ll have to play around more with the Up Next, Auto Download and this Autoplay function. Seems a balancing act. I don’t always agree with the choice the app makes for my next listen and we end up fighting it out. I suspect, like most people, I don’t listen to all podcasts the same way.
In general I have found the podcast controls in the app to be less than intuitive and a little hard to navigate. Maybe just getting used to a new way of thinking.
Cheers
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