App version: 3.6.0-beta3 from Google Play
Problem you may be having: Some podcasts, e.g. history ones, cover topics in non-sequential order.
Suggested solution: It would be cool to be able to sort them manually, so a listener could listen to them in specified order, e.g. chronologically.
Another solution would be to implement playlists, as many wish for.
I’m not using the beta and still on 3.5.0, but you don’t have the 2x3 matrix of squares to the left of episodes in the queue that let you drag that episode up or down?
In the queue, yes, but the problem is rearranging the episode order every time one wishes to listen to them. One possible solution is to implement playlists, as many have requested, another is this one, allowing podcasts to be sorted manually, so that users can sort them once, and not every time they want to listen to them. This is a less encompassing solution, admittedly, as playlists would presumably allow mixing episodes from various podcasts, and multiple playlists for the same podcasts, but I thought perhaps this would be a lower hanging fruit, given playlists have not been forthcoming.
I’m trying to understand the use case. Are these essentially audiobooks that you listen to repeatedly, but in a different chapter order than the author intended?
Here are some examples:
History podcasts for kids are my primary use case, but there could be others. There seems to a be a blindspot in AP’s design of a number of functionalities created by the assumption that listeners will listen to podcast episodes in sequence of publication, and each episode at most once. That’s certainly true of most adult listeners, as we tend to consume information only once, and that is typically time sensitive, i.e. obsolete in a few days, but not of kids. Kids often want to listen to them over and over again, and in some cases it’s cool to order the episodes in a more coherent fashion than publication date.