I’m trying to play my podcasts starting from the oldest unplayed episode and going forward.
First an example where it does work correctly for reference:
In the web interface, this can be achieved by going to “my podcasts”, selecting episodes instead of shows, then unplayed instead of all and then ordering by release date. Now if you select “play all”, the episodes will play in the list order.
Here is a link
that should take you to the exact order I’m talking about
EDIT: the forum seems to garble the url for some reason. The hover text for the url is correct, but when you click on it it’s broken…
Now the problem:
On Android this doesn’t work as expected at all. You can achieve the same sorting in the podcast list by doing the same steps (episodes instead of shows, unwatched, sort by release date), but when you tap the play button the most recent episode will start (no matter if it’s played or not). Alternatively, if you tap the play button on a specific episode, that episode will play, but the next episode will be the next episode of that podcast (event if it’s marked as played) and not the next episode in the list.
Also, “add to queue” only adds the first episode from the list to the queue, then after that it’s a mess.
On top of that there is no way to save the ordering of that list. Every time you enter the app you have to set up the ordering anew. The web version also forgets the ordering, but at least I can use the above link as a bookmark.
For me, the bare minimum fix would be to make it so that the “play all” button actually plays the list that is on the screen. Plan maximum would be to add podcasts to the smart playlists, so there is an easy way to save the filter and sort settings.
