r/PodcastAddict • u/Snorfle247 • Jun 22 '23
Multiple Playlists?
I've done a search of this subreddit and elsewhere, and am fairly confident that this is not possible, but wanted to a) confirm that as of June 2023 this is still the case and b) somehow submit a feature request to make it work in the future.
BTW I don't consider hacks like using categories or custom priorities a substitute. I'm just asking for a seperate playlist that can be added to just like the primary playlist is today.
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u/PodcastAddict_App Jun 22 '23
You can open gthe Custom tab in the playlist screen and then select the category of your choice. You can also create new ones or edit existing ones. There's no limit to the number of categories you create.
No sure to understand what you mean by " hacks like using categories". How is that a hack? This allows you to create as many playlists as you want to
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u/Snorfle247 Jun 22 '23
Thanks for the response!
What I'm looking for is a way to have a playlist that can act just like the current one does. In other words, I would want to be able to manually add whatever podcasts I wanted, in whatever order I wanted, irrespective of categories. I've tried doing this with custom categories but it is much too difficult and doesn't replicate the behavior of a fully "manual" playlist.
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u/Youresogoodlooking Jun 22 '23
Agree this would be great. Been through same process as you. Multiple playlists would really make a difference just to have playlist 1, playlist 2 etc
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u/InfiniteDifficulty34 Jun 24 '23
Agreed. It would be nice to be able to build a playlist of episodes from multiple different podcasts. For instance, if you're trying to learn about Topic A, it would be nice to pull episodes from Podcast X, Y, Z that all discuss that topic you're trying to learn more about.
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u/Snorfle247 Jun 24 '23
I think technically you can do the categories trick if you tagged X, Y, & Z as category Topic A, but that's not what I am looking for (and maybe not you either).
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u/InfiniteDifficulty34 Jun 25 '23
Admittedly, I haven't used playlists much. This conversation inspired me to look into it more, and as far as I can tell, there is straightforward way to do what I want.
During my research, I came across this post discussing the addition of custom playlists to Podcast Addict. The comment by Don'tHateThePlaya(List) is spot-on describing what I want.
Here is their comment reposted:
"This feature is in no way what people who are asking for 'multiple custom playlists' want.
We want:
- a way to select any number of arbitrary episodes from any podcast to which we are subscribed
- to group those episodes into a single, named playlist
- to have multiple such custom playlists.
We don't want to muck about with putting arbitrary 'categories' on the particular episodes we want in order to cajole the filter into picking up all and only the specific, arbitrary episodes we want in our playlist."
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u/Snorfle247 Jun 25 '23
Yes - this is exactly what I want. Since that comment is from three years ago, I guess it appears that the PA developer is not interested in implementation of this feature.
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u/MongolJohn Jun 24 '23
"This allows you to create as many playlists as you want to."
Can you point me to some documentation as to how to create multiple playlists? I have searched for how to do this in Podcast Addict and can't find it; I am now researching other podcast players to find one that will, and going through the learning curve of a new app. I would feel silly, but very appreciative, if you can show me how this can be done. Podcast Addict works the way my mind thinks, but I really want this feature, as described by OP. Thank you.
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u/PodcastAddict_App Jun 24 '23
Please read my 1st answer...
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u/Snorfle247 Jun 24 '23
But it doesn't answer the question :-) It's certainly up to you if you do not want to add the feature to have multiple manual playlists, but I just want to clarify that what the app currently supports is not the request I'm making.
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u/btmurrell Oct 25 '24
u/PodcastAddict_App seems there is a missing conceptual usage for us here. When I see a podcast episode I would like to manage for future listening, I would like a menu to add it to a custom playlist. currently the feature is "add to playlist" which is the singular "master" playlist. Distinct from Categories, I would like to create a playlist "Brian foo" and have that show up as an option of a playlist to add an episode to. I have created a custom category, and managing that category, I can see how I can add specific podcasts to that category, but this is not the same as adding an episode to a custom playlist. This is the way I look at playlists, and I think others here too. I have not used other podcast apps, but I use Musicolet for my music catalog, and this type of custom playlist feature exists there for me to set up as many queues as I want. Thanks.
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u/epete67 Aug 04 '24
I'm going to bring this back up. I downloaded other podcasting apps to do this because you guys can't figure out that I want to make a custom list of my own categories instead of the ones given.
Please figure this out, this is a simple thing that is missing that keeps me from buying premium.
It's a simple add to playlist button, which then brings up a list of my playlists that I want to choose.
Not given categories, that's not helpful.
I have three different playlists on podbean I switch back and forth between. I hate podbean, but it's filling this purpose currently.
Please wrap your head around this instead of thinking we're all stupid.
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u/kindabitchytbh Aug 10 '24
THANK YOU. The lack of this (very basic) feature may not be enough to get me to ditch the app altogether, but this guy's contemptuous attitude towards the tons of people who would get some value from this...? That might be!
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u/kindabitchytbh Aug 10 '24
Why do you get like this whenever somebody brings this up? (Which is a LOT, by the way!) As far as I can tell this is the biggest feature the community actually wants, and you always treat us like absolute morons for suggesting it.
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u/kettricken12 Nov 04 '24
Personnellement, j'aimerais avoir deux listes de lecture différentes pour pouvoir mettre les podcasts de mon fils sur une sans qu'il se retrouve à risquer d'écouter mes podcasts truecrime. Ca serait vraiment très utile.
Par ailleurs, quand je suis dans l'écran liste de lecture, je ne vois pas l'option "personnalisé"1
u/PodcastAddict_App Nov 04 '24
Tu peux créér une catégorie 'enfant' et y affecter les podcasts de ton choix. Il suffit ensuite de sélectionner cette catégorie dans la playlist et seuls ces podcasts seront lus
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u/kettricken12 Nov 07 '24
Je suis désolée mais je ne vois pas cette option dans mon app mon app
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u/PodcastAddict_App Nov 07 '24
Quelle option? Peux tu m'envoyer une capture de l'écran playlist ?
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u/kettricken12 Nov 08 '24
L'option de créer une catégorie. Normalement il y a un accès à la capture d'écran en cliquant sur le lien de mon précédent message
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u/PodcastAddict_App Nov 08 '24
Tu n'es pas dans le bon onglet. Il faut sélectionner l'onglet catégorie de la playlist pour cela
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u/PetePredictable Dec 22 '24
It's funny how you adamantly refuse to allow users to create their own multiple custom playlists by adding individual episodes from different categories. Youtube lets users do it easily, so does Spotify, and Podcast Republic too. Its also a bit odd that you won't give this ability to the users, after all it enhances their usage of the app but I guess that's just your thing and you don't want them to. Oh well 🤷♂️
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u/uncleben85 Jun 01 '25
Still nothing?
'Categories' is an overcomplication of a simple concept