Podcast Request - Android App - Arrange by podcast date

[dcastellani]

I subscribe to different RSS and Itunes based podcasts.

I use feed flipper to convert the Itunes feeds into RSS feeds that subsonic can understand.

However, no matter the input feed type (rss or feedflipper), my podcasts are arranged by name etc, but not by the date they were submitted into the feed.

I want the end result to be that newest podcasts are at the top of that feeds list, inside the android app.

IE. Smodcast feed >
Latest Episode
Second to Latest
Third to Latest
Etc

[JacobSteelsmith]

This is an annoyance to me as well. I have to make play lists to keep the podcast I listen to in order.

[enix]

This is an annoyance to me as well. I have to make play lists to keep the podcast I listen to in order.

I have been trying this workaround but apparently I am lacking.

A little tutorial on how to achieve this would be great until the app can be updated to at least allow 'sort by' parameters.

Thanks for the hard work btw, Subsonic has cured my needs overall. Very wonderful app. Will we be grandfathered in when this goes mainstream?

[dsiminiuk]

Looking in the Subsonic Android App and the web app it appears if there is no track number value in the ID3 tag, it sorts files by file name.

I had a related but exact problem. I subscribe to a daily podcast that has 3 - 1 hours segments. Hour 1 is tagged with track number 1, hour 2 with track 2 and, hour 3 as 3. The problem is that the web app and the Android app lists all the hour 1 shows together, ordered afterward by name.

The solution I came up with was to run a bash script on a Ubuntu machine that has access to the cifs share, and I set the ID3 tags with an imaginary number made up of the last 2 digits of the year, then the day of the year, and the the hour number of the podcast from the file name.

The script runs via cron once per day and looks for files that match today's date. Creates the track number and uses an ID3 update application to update the ID3 tags in the mp3 file. This makes all the files in the podcast folder appear to be sorted by date, then "hour" number.

Examples:
For January 1, 2015, 3 files hour 1, 2 and 3, (year 15, day 1) would appear as...
150011
150012
150013

March 27th's files (year 15 day 86) are like...
150861
150862
150863

If anybody is interested in the script, let me know.

dsiminiuk