This is great. Nothing irritates me more than losing my place in podcasts constantly.

Two things sprung to mind, from simplest to complex:

1. For car usage, the more "stabbable" the play/pause button is the better. Could the nice large album art square be tappable as a play/pause button in the same way the dpad button and on screen play buttons are?

2. Could it be optional for the last playing item to load by default when relaunching the application without parameters (or maybe with a special switch?)? Maybe i've misunderstood the integration but due to the md5 folder names, selecting a file from the interface isn't very viable. Launching from gPodder first time is great, but if I then choose to close gPodder, then close Panucci, the only easy way back is running gPodder again just to click "Play". It'd be cool to be able to just relaunch Panicci and carry straight on.

It's cool already though - just some ideas