Overcast- managing favorite episodes

[digeratti]

I really don’t want to switch players but is there a way to smartly manage favorite episodes besides scrolling looking for ones you have starred? another hack create a play list and manually add them

if not what’s an alternative app that makes this process easier?

[ryanjamurphy]

I had a similar question in October, but the responses didn’t fully solve this, sadly!

Favourite podcast episodes

Expanding the discussion from Podcast download as mp3 (or anything else for offline listening): Outside of manually downloading (as discussed in the linked thread), how do you manage “favourite” podcast episodes (if at all)? Castro provides a handy Starred feature, but I can’t use Castro for its lack of playlists. Overcast provides starring, but doesn’t allow you to see a list of the episodes you starred (as far as I know). Like the solutions in the linked thread, my current workaround is do…

I still use Overcast and add favourites to a special playlist manually using the menu described in that thread. I believe the reason this doesn’t work better is that technically your Overcast stars are not intended as favourites, but recommendations for Overcast’s recommender engine.

IIRC, Castro has a better favourites system—but no playlists! So you have to choose between the two features. I’d love a best-of-both-worlds app, too.

[digeratti]

I just tested and like castro favorite system — i don’t use playlist so thats not an issue – I think i will use both for now and see how much energy I could devote towards going back through my back catlog and making manual overcast “favorite” play lists

one downside to get the skip silence and volume boost = castro subscription; kinda cool marco has these free and is active developer - will keep to see how the app can mature perhaps he could be working to adding more management features…

thanks for responding