Support for podcast needed

[pinkworld123]

Hello it would be good to have podcast support like ios podcast app. Which can then be replace ios podcast app.

Thanks.

[jmshrv]

What would you like to see improved? There's stuff like #60 that should improve listening to podcasts/audiobooks, but from what I can tell Jellyfin itself doesn't really support podcasts too well.

[FracturedCode]

Hi, I'm not really sure what @pinkworld123 is trying to get at, but I also have some standard features common in podcast apps that I would like to see:

• 10, 15 or 30 second skip back or forward
• playback speed

I don't know Dart but I'm interested in contributing. I think the skip should be an easy enough start for me.

[geiger-engineering]

Hi! I'd love to see podcast support as well and the features mentioned by @FracturedCode would help a lot.

Since finamp already supports switching music libraries, I wonder if it would be possible to change the interface based on the library name (or some other indicator)? Then the standard music interface wouldn't need changing and one could display show notes or other meta data in the podcast interface.

Jellyfin itself doesn't support podcasts that well (or at all?) and I use podgrab for management and downloading which creates audio files with images and tags, just like normal music. I've tried adding them as different media libraries (music and books), but they don't show up in finamp, only the artists view is populated. I assume this is due to missing/wrong tags?

Cheers!

[geiger-engineering]

Hi, just wanted to report that I tried the workaround from #326 and it did work for me. So I think the server wasn't in a bad state, either it or Finamp seems to need some initialization magic. The steps were:

1. Create new music library named Podcasts
2. Add a "real" album, run library scan
3. Verify in Finamp that it shows up
4. Add podcast files, rerun library scan
5. Verify they show up in Finamp
6. Remove album, rerun library scan

I'm running Jellyfin 10.8.4, so it might have changed in the newer versions.

Not sure if this is already on the roadmap, but single track download or automatically downloading the most recent track would be a nice feature to avoid downloading the whole back catalog.