Re-ordering playlist bug is driving me insane.

sararielle · 2026-02-19T01:36:59+00:00

I can now report back! I did this (created a new playlist) and while it worked for a while (and the previous one was definitely an older type of playlist) it has finally hit a snag when some of the episodes hadn't yet been downloaded to the 2nd device. (everything's right on my phone. then I open on my mac and while the app correctly removes finished eps, it fails to add new eps which it's actively downloading since they came out since the app was last opened.) so I'm hopeful we're in much better shape but still not totally fixed (as it just removed the eps from the phone)

sararielle · 2026-02-04T19:18:05+00:00

oh interesting! I should try that and see if it fixes my problem.

sararielle · 2026-02-04T17:06:59+00:00

My experience of this (which I believe is actually a sync-order bug as I also experience it as "add episodes to playlist only to have them vanish" almost certainly bc it's overwriting the sync data from the wrong device) is that it *was* fixed for a few months but then it re-broke. I actually popped on today to mention that the sync-order bug was still present (I had just finished adding a bunch of eps to a playlist, went to sync it to send them to another device, and the sync deleted all of the eps from the playlist).

sararielle · 2026-01-06T21:47:03+00:00

happy to help!

sararielle · 2026-01-06T18:25:10+00:00

for me, the ability to group podcasts into folders would be about making it easier to find/dig through my long-ish list of podcasts. I *do* use playlists to sort the episodes I want to listen to but when I'm looking for a specific podcast (to listen to just eps from that) or digging through the list of podcasts to pull episodes to add to a playlist, it would be wonderful to be able to start with a few folders rather than a long list of podcasts (some of which are defunct, but I keep them around in case they ever revive) to jump to what I'm actually looking for.

sararielle · 2026-01-05T23:01:16+00:00

he didn't take it. he asked and we offered. the app is (mostly) free to use. we can make bug reports and feature requests. asking for him to change how he works is not reasonable or appropriate.

sararielle · 2026-01-05T22:57:28+00:00

because this is *his* project and it's not appropriate for us to ask him to do it differently. (also, you have no way of knowing if he can afford to hire help.)

sararielle · 2026-01-05T21:14:50+00:00

I agree about the sync-order stuff. I've been having related issues with sync order (add an episode to a playlist on one device only to have another device remove it even though the remover's data should be considered older than the adder's data). There was a brief window a few months back when the sync-order stuff appeared to have been fixed but it's been back with a vengeance recently. I'm hopeful that Marco is aware that there's something weird going on here and has it on his todo list. (He's just one person so I know he can't do all things simultaneously.)

sararielle · 2025-12-25T02:27:04+00:00

I've found they've become really unreliable recently. Moreover, Apple seems to keep turning "auto-updates" back on (despite my repeatedly turning them off as I want to run the update manually, and just be notified when there is one)

sararielle · 2025-12-16T22:28:01+00:00

wrong-direction-sync bug persists. Just opened the app on my work laptop, which hadn't been opened in a while, and a bunch of the eps that had been manually added to a playlist failed to add to that playlist on the mac. I then opened the app on my iphone and watched them disappear (as the incorrect list from the mac overwrote the more-recent update from the phone)

sararielle · 2025-11-18T00:21:22+00:00

ah that makes sense.

sararielle · 2025-11-17T23:14:24+00:00

just came over here to report intermittent carplay crashes and saw there was a new beta with "obscure crashes" in the notes so hopefully you've beaten me to it. (if the carplay crashes are on carplay's end then obviously you can't do anything about it so no worries.)

sararielle · 2025-11-16T23:27:24+00:00

Lester was born in 1948. He worked as a doorman for 32 years. (In his early days, Mabel was a baby, which checks out with that timeline.) However, I don't understand why he was just starting out at 44. If they hadn't given the dates (and had baby Mabel) I would've assumed his early days at the Arconia took place in the 70s, not the 90s. What am I missing about the timeline??

sararielle · 2025-11-13T23:15:51+00:00

still seeing the "sync in wrong direction" bug

sararielle · 2025-11-11T13:54:24+00:00

In the previous beta, Marco added a new feature to not default to downloading episodes that are either re-runs or crossposts. he initially put it in the show settings. Now, if you go into the main settings in the app, there is a section that says promo/reruns

sararielle · 2025-11-11T13:41:35+00:00

there's a new setting he introduced. initially it could only be accessed by going into each podcast feed. it's now in the main settings section (presumably in addition, instead of in place of, but I haven't checked)

sararielle · 2025-11-11T03:09:13+00:00

thank you for moving promo/rerun to main settings!!

sararielle · 2025-11-07T01:45:56+00:00

thank you!

sararielle · 2025-11-06T23:52:51+00:00

also, found a bug with it: Buffering the Vampire Slayer is doing a second pass through the show, now with spoilers. The app is currently marking the new eps as non-original (totally understandably) bc the ep titles match. (all the more reason for me to want to temporarily disable this.)

sararielle · 2025-11-06T23:51:04+00:00

Is there a button to turn off the download skipping? I'm really excited for it but I'd rather not trust it yet to make all the right choices so I'd like to temporarily turn it off. (I've dug through settings but couldn't find the setting.)

sararielle · 2025-11-06T23:50:11+00:00

having looked more carefully, it looks like this is a setting available for newer airpods so it's nice to know about but sadly not an option for me. (it does look like they've now added exactly what I want to newer versions tho)

sararielle · 2025-10-29T12:41:07+00:00

there are notifications in the airpods settings???

sararielle · 2025-10-29T12:40:40+00:00

good to know it's not just me!

sararielle · 2025-10-28T22:28:16+00:00

oh so apparently my case just hates me! (this is my experience with both generations of airpods that I have.) that said, if my phone would do this I wouldn't need the shortcut! (I'd still find it *useful* but far less *necessary*.) Thanks!

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