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Originally Posted by dubliner View Post
Thanks for your detailed response, cy8aer. I appreciate it.

I completely agree with you about the limited space on the device. Deleting the episode after it's been played is a prudent precaution, which I am quite happy about.

Some ideas about the GUI. Wouldn't it be parsimonious to combine the "inbox" and the "library" into one dialogue? The available and the downloaded episodes could be numbers on top of the podcast logo, i.e. 2/5 -> five available, two of those already downloaded to the playlist. Then, you'd only have one place for all the information. I have to admit I was at first confused about the "inbox". After all, I expected everything coming in should appear on the playlist (at least for my use case).

If the main aspect of the favourites is to "download" them into a different folder, how about calling that functionality "permanent download" or just "sticky"? By the way, I like the idea of a separate folder. That makes it easier to find the episode for transfer.

One more question about the archive. If the episode is removed from the feed, will it still remain in the archive? Wouldn't it be a good idea to completely remove it then, unless is has been downloaded (as a favourite or just lingering in the playlist)? Again, saving space might be an argument in favour of this. Why keep outdated data? Also, if you delete a podcast, the relating data should be removed. I have some trouble getting episodes automatically downloaded with on podcast (I must have limited to number of downloads to 2 when a whole avalanche of episodes appeared on the feed - ever since then PodQast has been refusing to download any episodes from that podcast automagically). So, I thought deleting the podcast from the library and then discovering it again might solve the problem. But everything just came back as before.
Combine inbox and library in one dialogue: concept failure.

Though you want to listen to all posts that come in for me the inbox is the selector for posts I might listen to. I automatically fill the playlist only with few podcasts and look into the inbox what I like to listen in addition. All the other stuff is moved to the archive. So I need two places. But for you: Just set "New post to top/bottom" of playlist and ignore the inbox. I have about 20 podcasts subscribed and many of them have updates daily. But I do not want to listen to all.

The library page is a selection of all stuff which can be used for filling the playlist (or the inbox if it is logical).

Posts are only created by podcasts not handled. Just test it: subscribe a podcast, put one post to the playlist and - delete - the podcast. The post is still there - as a single post can be selected from a not subscribed podcast. That is why I am thinking about the favorites: If you have feeds which forget their audio files this is useful (german "de-duplication"). If you already have the post somewhere it will not be forgotten - even if the feed forgets it.

Why keep outdated data: Alzheimer. I want to have a timeline what I listened to.

Because posts are persistant once they are mentioned in a list they are burned. If you had trouble with downloading such a post with earlier versions of podqast you will not be able to download it again. I hope that I have most problems solved with 1.9up so if you want to listen to the older stuff try the methods described in https://gitlab.com/cy8aer/podqast/wi...lp-goingwrong: save opml, clean up, restore opml. Sorry, that is the best I can give you at this time.

Last edited by cy8aer; 2018-12-24 at 14:54.
 

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