[EDITED on 2007-07-05 to include new ideas]the following are some of the features that [we]'d like to see added to podcasts in MC:
1 ) a single view of all downloads in progress with, ideally, a way to prioritize podcast downloads. Either by adding a priority setting or by letting users re-order the items. And also yhe ability to pause/restart single or all podcast downloads.
2 ) MC warns user if he\she's trying to close it while a download is in progress.
3 ) automatically and/or manually boomark audio podcast files so one can resume listening at the correct place later on
4 ) "Podcast Tag and File Renaming Rules": here it would be great if we could add any number of fields, not only Genre, Artists, etc.. It could be implemented like the "Add new rule" in the "Edit Smartlist" dialog box. JRiver should add an "Add new field" button that would add a new line in the "Podcast Tag and File Renaming Rules" dialog box where one could select any field he\she want to process.
5 ) a way to re-link a file already downloaded (by another program for example) to a podcast feed in MC, so that MC doesn't download it again
6 ) podcast groups objects, containing, guess what?.... podcasts
7 ) an option to remove podcasts once they have been played. ideally it should be possible to set/unset it per single podcast subscription
8 ) Podcasts in a feed should start downloading from oldest to newest (not newest to oldest as they do now). That way if you have been out of town and have a large number of items to download you can start listening to the older shows while the new ones download. Most podcasts build on previous shows, pulling them down newest first is like buying a TV series one disc at a time starting with the newest - you have to wait till you have them all before you can really use them. Better yet, there should be an option to decide the download order.
9 ) A command to Import\export feeds from\to OPML files so that one can move feed lists from\to other programs.
10 ) The ability to force a re-scan of all feeds for new posts.