Podcasts: Global setting for downloading past episodes

[brownphotographic]

As a user I would like to have a global setting (for all podcasts) that allows me to set the number of episodes to download and keep.

Currently this is a per-podcast basis (and doesn't even work ... bug)

Use case: I would like to download a backlog of episodes and just play. This is a common feature in most podcasting apps (since, well the ipod in the early naughties).

[nichwall]

Can you provide more context of how setting the episodes to keep is not working?

The default is to keep all podcast episodes and not delete any of them.

[brownphotographic]

Sorry that is not what I am saying...

Currently there is no global setting for all podcasts to set the number of episodes to download and keep.

This is the global dialog for all podcasts

This is the per podcast dialog. Note the settings.

There should be (and maybe I am missing it) a global setting for all podcasts to allow the user to define how many episodes to download to the library, and how many to keep. All podcasts should inherit that setting. Then allow the user on a per-podcast basis to over-ride the default setting.

[nichwall]

Yes, there is not a global setting for this. I'm mostly confused about what you mean by

Currently this is a per-podcast basis (and doesn't even work ... bug)

[brownphotographic]

To provide more context:

I imported all of my podcasts from opml. The default global setting with no way to change?) that is used to sync podcasts is the date the podcast was imported.

When I check for new episodes, it only looks at those created since today's date. So no podcasts show. I have to then go into every podcast, change the Setting "Look for new episodes after this date ", change the "Limit", then hit "Check and Download New Episodes"

New Feature (please point this out to me if it already exists):

• Global settings for the whole podcast library
• Look for new episodes after date
• Max # of episodes to keep
• Max # of new episodes to download per check

[nichwall]

There is not currently a way to set the download schedule globally or the max number to keep/download.

By default, all podcasts download the most recent 3 episodes that are not already downloaded when checking for episodes, and all episodes are kept.

If you are wanting episodes to download automatically, I would recommend using the download schedule, or the "Find" button on the main podcast screen.

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/guides/podcasts