I'm a longish time (9 years today) user of MediaMonkey and I only use it for podcasts. The recent overhaul to MMA2 seems to have messed with the order that podcast episodes are displayed and added to the playback queue. I'm done some experimentation to try to figure out why this seems to affect my subscriptions differently.
To be clear, here is the expected and correct priority order that podcast episodes should be automatically sorted and played:
- Release Date (Date in MMW)
- Track # (mostly not used by podcasters in a meaningful way)
- Maybe Title, as some podcasts put some sorting info into that field
Instead, this is how I think the episodes are currently being sorted based on my experimentation:
- Track # (as I said above, mostly useless field)
- Date/time synced to device, or some other internal ID field
I tend to sync a chunk of episodes at a time per podcast, so while the default behavior here might work for someone who syncs one episode per podcast daily, it really doesn't work for backlogs or serialized content. I subscribe to over 60 podcasts, so it's common for me to be playing catch-up on a few of them at any given time.
Thanks!
*Edit: my current MMA version is 2.0.0.1079
This one uses track # as release year in each file