Why isn’t the now-playing episode at the top of the queue?

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Hi everyone,

I’ve noticed something in AntennaPod and wanted to ask whether this is expected behavior or if I might have a setting wrong.

When I’m listening to a podcast episode, the currently playing episode is not shown at the top of the queue. Instead, it appears somewhere further down the list. I would have expected the “now playing” item to always be at the beginning of the queue.

Is there a reason for this, or a way to change the behavior so that the active episode is always listed at the top?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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The item stays in the same place in the queue where it was when you clicked on it. It’s also in the bar at the very bottom of the screen, and clicking on that opens the episode full screen.

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Thanks for the explanation! Is there a particular reason why the currently playing item is designed to stay in its original position in the queue instead of being moved to the top? I’m curious whether this behavior has specific advantages or is part of a design decision.

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Playing an episode and sorting the queue are separate concepts - one doesn’t affect the other.

What is the problem you are trying to solve exactly?

If you tend to play episodes you added to the queue recently, perhaps switching your “Enqueue location” to “front” can help.

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Thanks! The background here is that I’ve mainly been using Pocket Casts so far, and there the currently playing episode is always shown above the queue. I find that a bit clearer, because newly added episodes are then simply played afterwards.

Another advantage for me is that it makes the currently playing episode much easier to find - I don’t have to scroll through a very long queue to locate it.

So I was just curious whether there’s a particular design reason why AntennaPod keeps the playing episode inside the queue instead of displaying it separately like that.

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At a guess it is so playback will continue at the next episode in the queue following the currently playing episode and ignoring those above it?

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Yes - that’s exactly how I understood it as well. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that approach. I’m just used to it working differently in other podcast players I’ve used before, so I wondered whether this behavior might be configurable somewhere.

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You can’t configure the “now playing” selection to appear at the top of the queue, but you can configure whether additions to the queue are added to the top or bottom of the queue. Regardless of that selection, you will continue to see the live episode at the bottom of the screen.