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.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.6/10
- Frequency
- 10.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 1.7/10
- Momentum
- 4.4/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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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
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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