Hi Thomas,

Firstly I want to say THANK YOU (& the team) so much for this latest release. Yipee!! Wayhaaay! It's just SO much faster – it's now actually useable for playback. Before it took so long to switch podcasts (especially if there was another app open like panucci or a web browser) that I couldn't use it to select podcasts to play. I'd end up using Panucci to select the podcasts, then file manager to delete them. Then of course when I wanted to download episodes and tidy up with gpodder, it didn't know that I'd played anything.

But now... I can just select episodes from gpodder and it knows what I've played. Oh happy day. BTW, did I mention that I REALLY like this release?

Now for some feedback....

I found the views menus have some issues.
The 'Show Deleted' actually showed ALL of the episodes, not just the deleted episodes. Similarly the 'Show All' seems to show all EXCEPT deleted. The functionality is fine once I got used to it, I just think the descriptions are misleading/confusing. Can I suggest renaming:
'Show all episodes' to 'Hide deleted episodes' and
'Show deleted' to 'Show all episodes' .

The 'Downloaded episodes' view shows Downloaded AND New. I can see this would be a useful view when selecting episodes to download but the name is confusing as I expected just a list of podcasts I could play. Perhaps this could be renamed to 'Current episodes' or just 'New and downloaded episodes'
Please also add a view that does show just the episodes that have been downloaded and are present – that would be useful when listening to episodes and using gpodder to select them.

The 'Unplayed Episodes' view is almost identical to the 'Downloaded episodes' view. The only difference I could see is that episodes marked 'prohibit deletion' are not shown. Otherwise, the downloaded (played, unplayed, deleted in other apps) and new episodes are shown in both views.

'Hide podcasts without episodes' seems to have a bug. I expected it to hide podcasts in the left pane which do not have any downloaded episodes (ones without a count number in the left pane). I assume the name is misleading as I can't imagine anyone would produce a podcast feed that does not have any episodes at all.

Remove episodes. I think this should preselect episodes previously deleted outside gpodder eg those deleted with file manager. These seem to be marked as a music note with a hollow small X.

The sub menu is not obvious – it's not intuitive that the options on the title bar change, at least not to me – I've never come across an app that does this. To make it obvious that something's different, you could somehow visually change the title bar eg make the title bar reverse video or put a box around it. However, I think a couple of other options might be better yet:

1. Move the 'Never download' into the submenu and use that freed up button for 'More options', which would then pull down the submenu.
2. Make a long press on an episode pop-up the submenu. I know the options apply to the whole list and not just the selected item, but that should be obvious and the interface would be more consistent with other screens.

Sorry for the long post - as Winston Churchill once said, I didn't have time to write a shorter letter.

Once again, EXCELLENT job. Congratulations.

Vic

PS Let me know if you want any of this entered as bug reports, I couldn't find any, but that could just me my search terms didn't pull them up.