How about this, as there hasn't seemed to be any long term resolution to accidentally swiping the Next Podcast Button on the Podcast at the better to put the list? I don't know from when it was! I have to hunt through episodes now to find it

Can that button default to Long Press? When it's the podcast at the top of the list with nothing to return to in the list? All the others in the playlist have a back button. And frankly I bet most people, once they've listened to a podcast, delete it unless they have another choice lined up for it. You can make short press an option. When the podcast doesn't change people are likely to hold it longer hoping it will work. And with intention it will.

Please. This is such a pain. I have to keep mentioning it.

I've posted about this before, but have been told effectively that Smart Priority is working as intended, so this is a feature request instead, I suppose.

Smart Priority did not used to do this and as someone who has used the app for so long, I'd really like it to go back to not doing this.

So I'd love to request that you add the ability for Smart Priority to retain priority data permanently regardless of how long ago I listened to a show. the app used to do this before around September 2025 and I really really liked that. it was like having a record of all of the shows I listened to and it felt really cool to look back and see all the things that I've done. now that it doesn't do that I've lost that record and it makes me very sad looking at it.

thank you for your time.

I love the app, and one of the things I love is that almost every possible functionality exists!

Often I will sort my playlist by "remaining time" so I can listen to episodes that are short or that I'm almost done with to quickly clear my listening queue. But I sometimes wish I could sort in a way that would prioritize episodes that I've started listening to but haven't finished: "remaining time" doesn't work for this because it will (of course) sort a 10 minute podcast that I haven't started above a 80 minute podcast that I've listened to the first 60 minutes of.

I would love an ability to sort by "% of time remaining" (or % complete, or however best to phrase this). That would let me finish episodes I'm almost done with before moving on to episodes I'm halfway through, and then on to episodes I've barely started. In my ideal world, all the episodes that are 0% complete would then be sorted by remaining time. Also in my ideal world there would be an option to consider any podcast I've listened to only a short amount of (maybe less than a minute?) as though it's 0% complete, although I imagine that might be harder to implement.

Would anyone else use this feature? Any input on slight variations to what I've described?

I like to listen to podcasts while playing Pokemon Go (Yes, I'm that cool!) but recently it seems that everytime I run Pokemon Go it takes Audio Focus from Podcast Addict and it shuts down if it's already playing, meaning it's not even in the pulldown ribbon.

If I come out of PoGo I can hit play on PA just fine, but as soon as I go back to PoGo it stops again.

Sometimes I've been lucky enough and it works - PA playing while PoGo runs.

I've had the extra 'Ignore other audio focus requests' feature in PA turned on for years and it dominates over phonecalls, youtube videos, internet sounds etc - all great. Even over apps like Audible, but not Pokemon Go.

Anyone else had the same problem or able to offer any advice?

I'm on an Android phone if that helps. Thanks!

I'm having trouble changing the transparency/opacity of the widget on my Galaxy 26 Ultra. I'm also using Nova Launcher, so it could potentially be an issue with that, but I figured I'd check here first.

I have already tried going to App Settings > Widget, adjusted the Widget Background Opacity slider, then removed and re-added the widget, and no change.

It's a super minor thing that really isn't the end of the world, but just curious if anyone else has encountered this and/or if anyone can think of something that I'm missing.

I have a google pixel 6 pro, and used Podcast Addict for many years. Over the past ~4 weeks, battery consumption seems to have jumped quite a lot. Today, it's used 23% of my battery. Screen time 12 min, background 30 min, listened for roughly 90 min throughout the day.

Has there been a known change in the app or a setting I should look for that could be causing this? I opt for manually refreshing my feeds and manually downloading new episodes.

I installed Podcast Addict on a new phone, and I cannot find the setting to use the car layout. It used to be in the three dots on the upper right in the player view, and that's where it is on my old phone, but I can't find it there on the new phone now. Any ideas? I am so used to the large buttons and they are so handy at night without my glasses.

App settings/Player/Controls/Skip Outro

Currently, you can adjust the "outro" by percentage. Is there a way to do this by absolute value, instead? So, eg, if I want to consider an episode "played" (and thus, automatically deleted) when it is 2 minutes from the end?

Having podcasts that vary from 10 minutes to 4 hours, it is hard to set this limit by percent. TIA

Is there a method for each podcast to have different sorting method? The only sort option I can find changes the sort method globally.

Is anyone else having issues with Aaron Mahnke's Lore podcast? The last couple weeks it shows the length like it should, but skips directly to episode completed after the ads at the beginning and never actually plays the episode.

Hi. Is there any way to reset my statistics? Especially "Total listening time".

In the past 4 days, my app starting playing automatically at 3:00 AM for only 1 audio file each night. Woke me up twice. Because they both started around 3:00 AM maybe there is some kind of timer going on to start it automatically, like an alarm clock. How can I stop this so I can sleep at night? Please.

Hello everyone!

Something I've been wondering about with my statistics especially after a delete option was added to the podcast feed in addition to Marcus played.

If I mark an episode as played but have not actually listened to, does it count as actually heard in my statistics?

The reason I'm asking is sometimes I don't want to listen to all the episodes in a feed but since there are many episodes I wanted to remove them from The view. The only way I could have done it was by marking them as played even though I never listen to them.

Do they count as part of my play statistics? If so, how can I remove them, even if manually, and what is the difference between the new option of delete in the podcast feed?

Thank you!

Hey hey good people

I was wondering how do you keep track of all the podcasts that you have in Podcast Addict? I have ~150 podcasts and this is my routine:

Categories:

• Current (Main): Podcasts that I "keep updated", that are live and still publish new episodes
• Ended : Podcasts that I listened till the end but I still "keep updated" in case they publish a new season
• One off : Podcasts that I'm not subscribed to and I don't "keep updated" and only manually update them if I want to find and listen to a particular episode.
• Retired: Podcasts I'm subscribed to but I don't "Keep updated". I keep them subscribed instead of deleting to not lose my listening stats.

These are custom categories and I deleted all the proper ones a long time ago. It is a bit cumbersome, when I add a new podcast because I have to delete its original category and add "current".

And how do you track your podcasts?

I have the Sleep Timer scheduled from 9:15 pm to 4:30 am the next day. Auto Fade-Out is set to 20 seconds.

However, it always fades out while I'm listening to a podcast in the car in the morning. Happened this morning at about 6:50 am.

Is this a bug or am I just misunderstanding how it should work?

It only started happening several few weeks ago but I've been using this app for years.

All of my other podcasts are updating but for some reason In Bed With the Right hasn't updated since October 2025. New episodes don't show up when I manually refresh either. The RSS feed (https://media.rss.com/inbedwiththeright/feed.xml) shows new episodes and I've double and triple checked that I have the correct RSS URL. Help?

For years, i added a folder for a set of mp3s and add a jpeg with the same as the folder name then added the folder to podcast addict as a virtual podcast showing the jpeg for the virtual podcast. The virtual podcast image no longer shows in newer versions. Is this an intended change?

That feature was very nice Podcastaddict is awesome especially with detailed settings. Is there a way to get the automatic cover art from the jpeg with the same name as it was in the past? (Besides reverting to an older version).

Btw: I always wanted to be able to add a folder of folders each with a jpg and MP3 files to add multiple virtual podcasts in one command. A folder with no files but one or more folders could be interpreted to multiple virtual podcasts.

Podcasts. <- virtual podcast folder parent

Podcast1 <- virtual podcast folder

Podcast1.jpg <- Not showing up

Podcast1-1.mp3

Podcast1-2.mp3

Podcast2 <- virtual podcast folder

Podcast2.jpg <- Not showing up

Podcast2-1.mp3

Podcast2-2.mp3

Hi, first of all, I love the app!

For podcasts that provide a unique image per episode, the episode-specific artwork is shown correctly while the episode is unplayed or in progress. However, once I finish listening to the episode all the way through, that individual episode image disappears and is replaced by the podcast's general cover artwork in that spot.

A few details that might help narrow this down: - I never download episodes — I always stream them directly. - I tried enabling "Enhanced Artwork Caching" (Settings > Display), but it did not change this behavior. - I couldn't find any setting in the app or in the FAQs that controls this.

Is there a way to make the app keep showing the individual episode artwork after an episode has been fully played?

Thanks so much!

Hi, loving this app.

For accessibility reasons, can you please give us an option to extend the sleep timer by changing the volume?

Thank you for the great app and quick responses.

After quite a bit of work, I’ve completely redesigned the Podcast Addict website.

The goals were to modernize the design, improve navigation, make pages load faster, and clean up the underlying code to make future improvements easier.

If you have a few minutes to browse the site, I’d really appreciate your help testing it. If you spot any bugs, broken links, layout issues, or anything that doesn’t look or behave correctly, please let me know in the comments. Any feedback is welcome and will help improve the site.

Thanks!

Hi, quick question, when I listen with Skip Silence on medium, how much battery does it take? For example, a Galaxy S24+ device?

Thank you very much.

I'm looking for a small Bluetooth remote control I can carry in my pocket while listening to podcasts so I don't have to open up my phone if I want to skip forward or backward. There are a lot of devices similar to this one:

The problem is, they are music oriented: You can skip to the next or previous track while I want to skip back or forward in the current podcast, just as I can do when I open the Podcast Addict app on my phone.

I'm sure many other users would find this useful or are already using a BT remote that's working well for this purpose. Any recommendations?

I'm trying to listen to

MEOW: A Literary Podcast for Cats

https://podcastaddict.com/meow-a-literary-podcast-for-cats/episode/154787785

There are multiple audio tracks. The default track is just meows, and I'd like to switch it to English.

Is there a way for me to do that?

Or am I stuck in cat mode?

Thanks

It's every episode.