The ability to mark episodes older than selected as 'played'

Feature request
1

I subscribe to many news podcasts and am really interested in only the latest episode of each one. If I miss a day or two, these episodes which have downloaded and will never be listened to have to be manually deleted which is time consuming. A previous podcast app I used had the feature to click on any episode and select “mark previous episodes as played”. This offers a way to mark ‘played’ (and thus eligible for deletion) all old episodes which you desire to bypass.
Very useful.

2

The Multi-Select feature lets you do this:

  • Select first episode to be marked as played
  • Press and hold on episode below and choose Select all below option
    (assuming they are sorted New to Old)
  • Tap the edit icon and choose Mark all as played
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Actually this step not needed - Just Press and Hold last episode to be not marked as played before choosing Select all below.

4

This is very unintuitive. There needs to be some sort of indication in the UI that there are more options than just selecting or deselecting episodes. I was about to give up on the ap because I wanted to bring across subscriptions that have thousands of episodes, but couldn’t work out how to mark the old ones as played.

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The process to mark old episodes as played when migrating to Antenna from another player involves

  1. Going to each podcast,
  2. long clicking one episode,
  3. choosing ‘multi select’,
  4. long clicking again on that episode,
  5. choosing ‘select all above / below’,
  6. clicking on the icon that looks like ‘write’,
  7. choosing ‘mark as played’.
  8. repeat for every single podcast you subscribe to
    I mean I guess you only have to do that once when you start using Antenna, but it’s not exactly frictionless. Nor are any of the steps obvious. I got as far as long clicking the podcast and choosing multi-select on my own, but the next step was not at all apparent, and I only learned it when researching if an issue had been raised and discovering this thread. Select all above / below should be on the main long-press menu at least, and the edit menu needs a more appropriate icon. Better yet there should be a widget on each episode to open the menu, e.g. an ellipsis or hamburger menu icon.
6

The option to mark older episodes as played seems to have disappeared. I have Delete episode, Download, Mark as unplayed as the options appearing.It is really a useful feature when a podcast has many older episodes that I do not want to listen to, or if the podcast moves server and older, listened to, episodes come up as unplayed.

7

It has not disappeared. Scroll sideways

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8

Aha, thanks for that. I like Antennapod and use it everyday. In this case it would be great to have a thin triangle shape indicating to scroll for some extra functionality. That is a common indicator used on many websites and apps.

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9

Long press of a list item is a very common way of popping up extra actions/functionality. Always worth trying on any app with which you are unfamiliar.

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10

I’ve got to agree with the user above who said this is unintuitive, “mark all played” from the drop down menu in the top right would seem the most logical method.

If you wanted to carry on using the long press method, perhaps “played all to here” (I think usual multi select was flipping played items to unplayed when I did this)