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First off, podcasts work great for me I am on firmware 1.2.2 and have been listening to a variety of podcasts daily on my Tangara; it has been a joy.

If I may share, here's the setup that has worked for me:

- Download episodes with gPodder
- SD card has a folder for each podcast in the root/Podcast/ folder of my SD Card (following the documentation)
- MP3 tags
    - Artist: Podcast name
    - Album: "Series" / season name
    - Title: Title of the episode

I do wonder if there is a better way to sort the episodes on the Tangara itself. Here's where I am at:

- I would like my podcasts to be sorted in a particular order (generally, when they were released)
- By default (thanks to gPodder), the files themselves come prefix with the date which is great. Many of my podcasts also use the MP3 Year tag too.
- I tried setting the MP3 Track Number tag to sort episodes, but this did not seem to translate to the Tangara. The Year tag does not seem to have any effect either.
- The method that consistently works is prefixing the MP3 tag "title". This works well enough, but it is a slight annoyance to have that taking up space on the now playing screen.


My question: Is there a better way to tag the episodes so that way they are sorted by something other than the MP3 Title tag?

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My question: Is there a better way to tag the episodes so that way they are sorted by something other than the MP3 Title tag?

Not at the moment, they're only sorted by title in the current release. Podcast support was added fairly recently in the scheme of things so we're still making improvements and figuring things out. We could update the firmware to use the year tag to sort podcasts views, as that seems to match where the "release date" info seems to be set (at least with gPodder, though it'd be great to confirm that other podcast downloaders do it this way too). I've opened an issue for this on codeberg here.

I tried setting the MP3 Track Number tag to sort episodes, but this did not seem to translate to the Tangara.

At the moment they're only sorted by title and not album/track order, but that wouldn't be a difficult change either. Other indexes are sorted that way so we do have support for it, but it's not used at the moment for podcasts. But I think it's probably best to use the "year" tag first (often for podcasts this is a date, not just a year), since that's what seems to be the convention.

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Simply sorting by the "Year" tag sounds great.

Thank you & the team for how well podcasts are supported already and double-thank you for opening the ticket on codeberg