There have been many suggested improvements for podcast support suggested over the years. I think a developer started to look into making some improvements during 7.5, but Touch development took precedence.
The things I would like to see before I go back to using podcasts in SBS are: 1. Don't load podcast metadata into music library. 2. New episode/partially played/fully played status indicator. 3. Remember song progress per episode. 4. Audio feedback with fast-forward through podcast episodes. iTunes/iPods do all of the above. Number 1 is most important to me, because podcast episodes are generally very poorly/inconsistently tagged. Browsing a hierarchy of Podcasts > Episodes is good, but the items shouldn't appear within Browse Artists/Albums/Genres/New Music, etc. Number 4 is important to me, as I have a lot of long episodes (> 4 hours), in which I fast-forward through to skip sections of little interest. I don't want to overshoot. SBS used to support fast-forward, but was replaced with a visual song positioning mechanism (which although good, was a reduction of functionality, as there is no audio feedback). As a result, I don't bother with Podcasts on SBS/Squeezebox. I use an iPod Nano and connect it to the line-in of a Boom, so I get the proper control/management benefits. -- Philip Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77473 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
