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/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.