Pocket Casts Now Lets You Filter Episodes By Duration

Pocket Casts is finally adding the ability to filter episodes by duration. The v7.eleven of the app adds this much-needed characteristic, although it comes a little bit belatedly. A new Duration bubble in the Filters tab lets you filter episodes past specific length you choose. The new menu is available in the top row beneath every filter you create, along with all other existing options.

Y'all tin can set both the minimum and maximum length limit for each filter, in five-minute increments. This allows you to select from episodes that all-time fit your listening session. If y'all take well-nigh 30 minutes during your commute, you tin ready the app to only bear witness episodes that aren't lengthier than your available time. This way, you won't accept to break an episode midway and listen once again later.

Pocket Casts already lets yous sort episodes by their duration. You tin select between shortest to longest and longest to shortest. The new Duration filter at present ensures that you'll only come across episodes that y'all may consider listening to at any given time.

Pocket Casts adds duration filter, more new features on the way

In add-on to the duration filter, which is now live for all users with v7.11 of the app, Pocket Casts besides have several new features in the pipeline. The v7.12 of the app, which is currently available in beta from the Google Play Shop, adds new episode multi-select options.

Yous can united nations-star your starred episodes, remove episodes from the annal, delete multiple downloaded episodes at one time, and marker played episodes as unplayed. Substantially, Pocket Casts is making all these actions 2-mode.

Additionally, the app now also lets you customize the toolbar. The option to customize the toolbar is available through the overflow menu that appears afterwards you long-press on an episode. The pencil icon lets you rearrange or select/deselect actions that announced on the toolbar, and so your most-used ones are ever easily accessible. Those actions include download/remove downloads, star/united nations-star, archive/united nations-archive, marking as played/un-played, select all/deselect all, and play kickoff and play terminal.

The upcoming version of Pocket Casts volition besides introduce the power to filter episodes by duration every bit low as ane minute. The current minimum duration is v minutes. The new version will also offering better integration with Android 11's media notifications. Pocket Casts likewise promises improved rearranging of "Up next" items.

You lot can sign up for Pocket Casts v7.12 beta hither. The latest stable version, v7.xi, is now bachelor on the Play Store for all users.