Well, I just added the feed and selected '30 newest episodes'
I didn't do any sorting (probably this is where I've gone wrong, I just expected things to work as i'd like withought thinking like the developers)
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll go with that in future
Shame that more thought hasn't gone into the podcast side though - the amount of 'casts available is getting larger every day and from a programming point of view, it could be improved easily to give the users a better experience
We shouldn't have to mess about with sorting, all podcasts should be downloaded in order - what kind of logic dictates that a series downloads in reverse order by default? No, you want to listen to things in order - so download the oldest first
I do this kind of stuff every day and can't see any reason for this neglect
Ordering the downloads is so easy that not getting the oldest first just has to be an oversight
My guess is that a generic sorting routine has been used and they forgot to think about downloads and the order you listen to them
What troubles me most is that as I explore the edges of MC there's a lot of design choices that just seem to be badly designed - the core is solid, but quite a lot feels like badly tacked on afterthoughts with no real thought of how it will be actually used
Case in point - I want the last 30 episodes, but unless i mess about, I have to wait for the other 29 to finish before I can listen to the first one
Just sorting by date, and download from oldest to newest and there is no problem
I would have thought it would be the obvious way to do it - who watches tv series from the last episode backwards?
Got to be an oversight, it's just to silly to be there by design