1159: Don't show removed episodes in feed list[Fixed 1198]

[Owyn]

This is a cross between a feature request and a UI bug, but, it is for me the most annoying aspect of using MM3 as a podcast client. Even more than not supporting download of non-audio items.

There are two cases where this really causes a problem managing my podcasts.

1. Occasion multiple new episodes in the feed. My practice is to download latest 1 episode, and I have even adjusted my feed subscriptions to avoid combo feeds or multi-part per publish (segmented) feeds. But, I still run into this occasionaly. Many of my feeds are listen and discard news. And, with no way to easily see which episodes I have already listened to, and automatically deleted, it is difficult to spot multiple new episodes.

2. Subscribing to new feeds with lots of, mainly unwanted, old episodes. In this case need a way to flag unwanted episodes as removed and then let item 1 take affect.

iTunes handles both of these items well, with one exception. Occasionally the feed history gets corrupted in itunes and you have un-subscribe and re-subscribe the feed to fix the problem. I could, and will as necessary, do this in MM. But, adding a subsxription option to view removed episodes would make MM even better than iTunes in this area.

I realize what I am asking will probably require a schema change and may be non-trivial due to internal code restrictions.

However, it is important to me, and has shown up in Help and Bug Reports forums as well from other users.

[2x5fx]

There have been some good changes to the way MM handles podcasts recently; thanks.

This post is probably related to the problem I still have. Why does MM load the complete history of every feed, even when I've removed them from, Now Playing, My Computer and My Library?
It seems to be slowing things down unnecessarily.

[watson21]

Sorry, I screwed up the login, the last post was mine.

[Owyn]

Tested in 1198. Works great.

Thanks Ludek.