Back to the same podcast

AntennaPod has come a long way, a great app - I use every day. But like with every app frequently used one finds oneself repeating the same “finger” actions over and over again.
In my case I have a subscription with many, many episodes. About 200 in total. Today I listen to no. 126, tomorrow 127, etc.
Since AntennaPod doesn’t remember what I listened to already, I do have to scroll though the first 120+ episodes every morning.
You will say use “filters”, or the queue, etc. None of these works well in such a case (or I am missing something).

It would really be great if AntennaPod would remember which episode (in each Podcast) was played last, and when I open that subscription the next day or month, just goes back in the list to exactly that episode.
Thanks

For those podcasts which have many episodes I just filter them to only show the unplayed ones and sorted oldest to newest which means the next one I want to play is always at the top of the list. Does this not fit in with what you want to do?

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What do you mean with that? AntennaPod does remember what you listened to. That’s basically the entire purpose of a podcast app

Well, it remembers, but it doesn’t use that information to directly jump to that episode in the list (when viewing a podcast) or propose ‘listen next’ (e.g. on the home screen).

But I like @gomezz’ solution (more than implementing auto-scroll to last played episode).

I just did that for a couple podcasts I’ve been listening my way through for years. It’s something I should have done a long time ago, and I suspect that’s what @ajay would like as well.

One thing I discovered in the process: multi-select (to mark all of the older ones as listened) didn’t go all the way down the list for either podcast. After seeing that, I made a point of scrolling all the way to the end before multi-selecting and that worked fine. Maybe AntennaPod can’t “see” to the end of a years-long list of episodes until you scroll to the end?

I knew that somebody would say that, but a) it requires more user intervention than my solution, and b) it does not work well when podcasts come with some advertisement at the end of the podcast which has it that you don’t listen all the way to the end.
My feature request is NOT a big deal, AntPod is very mature, the problem will not effect many users. But as part of a little cleanup and update, it would be nice if it could be implemented.

There is the “smart mark as played” setting for that

You just have to enable the filter once. So it doesn’t need more user intervention than your solution (where there would be some setting that needs to be enabled as well)

It should work without having to scroll down to the bottom, right @ByteHamster? Do we need a bug report here?

Looks like it only works on “all episodes” and similar screens, but not on the screen of a podcast. There you need to scroll down before multi-select “sees” the episodes. That’s indeed a bug. Would be great if someone could create an issue on GitHub

I assume they mean having to do it for each podcast they want to listen to in this way. So some one-off investment of time and effort if they already have a lot of such podcasts. Personally I would just take a few seconds to set up the filter the next time I wanted to listen to a particular podcast and also when I newly subscribe to such a podcast.

Perhaps a global option for filter options to apply to newly subscribed podcasts? But not a biggy in my view.

Tracked here: Multi-select all below does not work on podcast page · Issue #7461 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub

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