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Podcast listeners struggle to control and resume playback reliably

Podcast and audiobook listeners want episodes to play in a chosen order, resume where they left off, and be ready offline, but the cited apps leave gaps in queues, auto-advance, and download controls. This can mean manually starting the next episode or handling a phone during other activities. The signals point to a listener-side playback problem; creator production and audience-growth requests are separate needs.

For podcast and audiobook listeners. Mentioned from Oct 2022 to Aug 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.

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35 different people described this problem in 30 separate discussions.

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  1. I would love for the next podcast in my playlist to just play once the previous one ends, would be a life saver. To be honest, this may me to move away from ABS to something else at least temporarily until that comes in
    ncleggs on GitHub (advplyr/audiobookshelf-app)Jun 2024Asked for a toolWants to switch
  2. Ideally, it'd be nice to create a Podcast playlist where you can add entire Podcasts rather than specific Podcast Episodes. Then the player would automatically queue all podcast Episodes from oldest-to-newest (adding new episodes to the end of the queue as they download)
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