starred/audiobookshelf
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf.git synced 2026-05-30 23:40:40 +02:00
Code Issues 1.0k Packages Projects Releases 10 Wiki Activity

[Enhancement]: Option to exclude finished podcast episodes from RSS feeds #1484

New Issue
Closed
opened 2026-04-24 23:47:11 +02:00 by adam · 5 comments
adam commented 2026-04-24 23:47:11 +02:00
Owner
Copy Link
Copy Source

Originally created by @rudism on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023).

Describe the feature/enhancement

My use case is I listen to podcast episodes on a device with very limited podcast functionality--it can list episodes from an RSS feed and download or stream them, but doesn't keep track of and hide episodes that have already been played. What I'd like to be able to do is mark episodes as read in Audiobookshelf and have those episodes no longer appear in the RSS feed. I think I can kind of achieve this already as long as I fully delete the episode from Audiobookshelf, but I want the ability to remove an episode from the RSS feed while still keeping the original media file in Audiobookshelf (because I'm a shameless data hoarder).

Perhaps something along the lines of a toggle when opening the RSS feed that says "Exclude finished episodes from feed."

Originally created by @rudism on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023). ### Describe the feature/enhancement My use case is I listen to podcast episodes on a device with very limited podcast functionality--it can list episodes from an RSS feed and download or stream them, but doesn't keep track of and hide episodes that have already been played. What I'd like to be able to do is mark episodes as read in Audiobookshelf and have those episodes no longer appear in the RSS feed. I think I can kind of achieve this already as long as I fully delete the episode from Audiobookshelf, but I want the ability to remove an episode from the RSS feed while still keeping the original media file in Audiobookshelf (because I'm a shameless data hoarder). Perhaps something along the lines of a toggle when opening the RSS feed that says "Exclude finished episodes from feed."
adam added the enhancement label 2026-04-24 23:47:11 +02:00
adam closed this issue 2026-04-24 23:47:12 +02:00
adam commented 2026-04-24 23:47:13 +02:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link
Copy Source

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023):

Is the device able to run the ABS app? Are you manually logging in on another device to mark the episodes as finished?

This would need user-specific RSS feeds to be implemented.

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023): Is the device able to run the ABS app? Are you manually logging in on another device to mark the episodes as finished? This would need user-specific RSS feeds to be implemented.
adam commented 2026-04-24 23:47:14 +02:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link
Copy Source

@rudism commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023):

I log in with my computer to mark the episodes as finished after I've listened to them. The device is a Lightphone 2 (which is Android-based but with a custom shell and unable to run a web browser or any other apps). I realized after I posted that the finished state of podcast episodes is user-specific, which would complicate things since the RSS feeds don't really know which user is fetching them.

I think for now I'll probably just delete the episodes from ABS entirely for listening purposes, and use a separate solution to archive the podcasts that I care about keeping for posterity.

@rudism commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023): I log in with my computer to mark the episodes as finished after I've listened to them. The device is a Lightphone 2 (which is Android-based but with a custom shell and unable to run a web browser or any other apps). I realized after I posted that the finished state of podcast episodes is user-specific, which would complicate things since the RSS feeds don't really know which user is fetching them. I think for now I'll probably just delete the episodes from ABS entirely for listening purposes, and use a separate solution to archive the podcasts that I care about keeping for posterity.
adam commented 2026-04-24 23:47:14 +02:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link
Copy Source

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023):

Another option may be to create two libraries, one where you keep all episodes, and the other where you delete them after listening. You would need to be careful that you're deleting from the correct library.

You could also add episodes to a collection, open the RSS for that collection, and remove episodes from that collection after listening. That's better than the two libraries since you're not deleting files or having duplicate files.

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023): Another option may be to create two libraries, one where you keep all episodes, and the other where you delete them after listening. You would need to be careful that you're deleting from the correct library. You could also add episodes to a collection, open the RSS for that collection, and remove episodes from that collection after listening. That's better than the two libraries since you're not deleting files or having duplicate files.
adam commented 2026-04-24 23:47:15 +02:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link
Copy Source

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023):

Oh, except podcasts can't be in a collection.

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023): Oh, except podcasts can't be in a collection.
adam commented 2026-04-24 23:47:15 +02:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link
Copy Source

@advplyr commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023):

Another solution for this in the future is the feature we have been calling "filters" for podcast. The idea is a dynamic playlist that auto populates based on criteria, so you could have a filter that is unfinished episodes for a specific podcast.
https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/1477

@advplyr commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2023): Another solution for this in the future is the feature we have been calling "filters" for podcast. The idea is a dynamic playlist that auto populates based on criteria, so you could have a filter that is unfinished episodes for a specific podcast. https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/1477
Sign in to join this conversation.
No Branch/Tag Specified
Branches Tags
Labels
Clear labels
authentication
backlog
bug
chapter editor
config-issue
ebooks
encoding/embedding
enhancement
help wanted
listening sessions & progress
planned
possible plugin
progress sync
pull-request
Mirrored from GitHub Pull Request
 sorting/filtering/searching
unable to reproduce
upload
users & permissions
waiting
No Label enhancement
Milestone
No items
No Milestone
Projects
Clear projects
No project
Assignees
Clear assignees
adam (Adam Melkus)
No Assignees
1 Participants
Notifications
Due Date
No due date set.
Dependencies

No dependencies set.

Reference: starred/audiobookshelf#1484
Delete Branch "%!s()"

Deleting a branch is permanent. Although the deleted branch may continue to exist for a short time before it actually gets removed, it CANNOT be undone in most cases. Continue?