With the recent issue being looked at by the podcast team around adding and disappearing podcasts I find myself wondering why Podcasts were implemented as a feature where the data lives on plex’s systems rather than inside my PMS instance. If the full functionality were part of PMS then I could control some of the weird behavior I’ve seen over the time I’ve been using it by selecting when to upgrade my PMS software. Does anyone have insight into why that decision was made? When it works, I love having all my media in one place but when it breaks and deletes my subscriptions, play counts and other things for many podcast feeds, I feel this is a reasonable question.
Plenty of users don’t have a server at all.
So could it be an option to have podcasts treated like local music? Can you share what percentage of users are using podcasts without running a server vs not to justify that answer? I would pay, again, to not have Plex’s server uptime and software deployments impact my ability to listen to podcasts. I totally appreciate that plex users might not have servers but the answer above is maybe not acknowledging the impetus for my question?
I honestly don’t understand why podcasts are still a thing in Plex. The list of issues that have been reported and not fixed, inconsistent download and sync behavior between Plex clients (iOS, Android, and Sonos for me), problems with Episode progress bookmarks, the lack of CarPlay integration, and so on. At this point, a third-party partnership with an established podcast platform such as the integration with Tidal would make more sense.
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could it be an option to have podcasts treated like local music?
You can always download the audio file manually or
automated through some RSS+external program and let Plex index them as a library, no?
Granted there is no tight integration and specific agent, but yeah no body impacts your listening except you and your setup.
Personally, I’d rather Plex fix the hosted podcast or do some integration a la its music and Tidal.
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