Podcast subscription not merging with previous

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I was gifted a podcast subscription for the second year running (Rest is History Club). However, upon adding it as an RSS feed. it just created a new podcast listing and didn’t merge with the (only just expired) existing Rest is History Club podcast list - where I had all of my favourites downloaded and ready to play.

So I now have a brand new listing with nothing downloaded, and my old listing now not recognised as being ‘subscribed’ (so ads on all of my episodes, and some subscriber only downloads no longer showing).

How do I merge the two so I can keep my old episode downloads, please?
Thanks!**

App version**: Google Play latest

Android version: 16

Device model:Pixel 9a

First occurred: Today

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Hello, fellow Pixel fan. Though I recognize the initial challenge when switching from a “free” feed to a premium feed, these are two different feeds that contain different downloads, so it’s appropriate for AntennaPod to display them separately.

You can still play your favorites from the public feed if that’s most convenient, but will want to play new episodes from the paid episodes feed since that has benefits you mention like being advertising-free and including bonus episodes. You may want to spend a little extra time selecting your existing public feed favorites in the premium feed so you’ll get away from the ads.

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Thanks for your helpful reply! But I don’t think I explained it very well in my previous ramblings.

Just to clarify, the ‘free’ feed only became free when it expired. It was previously the premium feed. Therefore I now have 3 Rest is History feeds: 1. The original (free), 2. last year’s premium (now classed as ‘free’) and this 3. year’s premium.

I just wanted to continue the premium feed from last year, and not have to start a while new feed/podcast again, losing all my handpicked saved podcasts in the process.

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You could try this and see if it helps:

  1. Backup your database
  2. Open your old premium subscription
  3. Tap the (i) icon
  4. Tap the overflow menu and then Edit feed URL
  5. Enter your new premium RSS feed

If the result is a mess, you can always restore your backup.

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I appreciate the additional detail. I suspect the current challenge is because each premium subscription is unique, so the gift subscription you received is effectively a new podcast subscription - your third.

I’d recommend reaching out to the podcast producer and explaining your situation. Hopefully they can credit last year’s premium subscription for the value of the gift subscription you received. That is presumably the intent of the person who gifted you this year’s subscription.

That said, I’m intrigued by the solution suggested by @loucasal and would be interested in hearing how it works if you try it.

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Thanks @loucasal this seems to have completely fixed it. Very useful to find where the edit url option is too, I probably should have found that out before adding the podcast.

Thanks also @Listener for your very helpful advice.

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Well, maybe not completely fixed. It doesn’t remember which episodes I have played have which I haven’t so there’s no way to filter.

Is there an option to multi select when marking podcast episodes as listened too? I’m not sure I can go through marking each one individually again as played.

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Yes, of course. You enter multi-select by long pressing, and then you have a number of options (select all/all above/all below) in the overflow menu. (NB if you’re on 3.10, you will still see a dedicated icon for “Select all”.)

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