Podcast App Discussion

@nilss

My approach is a bit simpler:

  • Bookmarking/subscribe happens with longpress, same as unsubscribing.
  • Fetching happens manually, just need to add indicators to show which podcasts number grew.
  • Episodes you pick by longpressing and they’re added to downloads, if you just tap it will stream it instead (but you can download it inside the player).
  • It automatically is marked as played when end of podcast is deteced.

Downloads, trash icon deletes all podcasts, or longpress to delete each one manually.

But your comment brought me some perspective for the queue, I personally only listen 1 podcast max and it’s usually before sleep or on a bus/train, but might be a good idea to kinda combine downloads & queue, have a multi select switch then those will be added to the player and will play on the order of selected.

Just because I hate the standard podcasts apps that you have 4 different windows where podcasts start.

Skipping forward/backward works, I’ll fix the setting to allow to change the skipping time. And also fix the delete after playing.

The Nothing playing window will become home screen, and I’m thinking to add continue.

Just not sure about the descriptions, because I don’t want pop ups or dialogs at all. Within the player it would be easy I could add Podcast description on Author name click, and episode description page linked to the title of the podcast.

Thanks again I appriciate it

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