Usage Question: Can I...

[raxelbrof]

Sorry I couldn't figure out a better way to address this.

I have a large back catalogue of podcasts, downloaded in the iTunes days (and still being downloaded by a dedicated iTunes MacMini. One thing iTunes could do was when set to traditional list view, if a podcast changed host, or changed feed name etc, iTunes would keep the episodes together under a single disclosure list entry.

So, if I go in to Finder and look in the iTunes library folder structure, one show might have multiple folders with different naming permutations, and episodes will be scattered across those folders, depending on which were downloaded during that particular feed name / server URL.

In the iOS / iPad / Catalina+ Podcasts app the list view is gone, and so your main navigation just shows separate entries for each time the show changed its feed name or host.

Can Doughnut manually seed a podcast subscription with previously downloaded episodes - in effect telling it to only download episodes after a certain date, but to consider the contents of an arbitrary folder to be the continuous back-catalogue for prior to the first download? If I were to subscribe to a show, download one episode, and then dump all the old episodes into the folder Doughnut created, would that work?

Failing that, I noticed Doughnut has gained the ability to create Podcasts without a corresponding RSS feed. Can that just watch a folder and update as new files are added to it (from outside of Doughnut)?

Thanks,