Archiving Episodes

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When you want to remove episodes from a Smart Playlist or not show them on a podcast’s page, you can choose to archive them. Archiving will also delete the episode’s download file.

You can learn more about what archiving is and how it can be useful for you in this blog post.

How To Manually Archive Episodes

Manually archive individual episodes

  • Swipe the episode row from right to left in an episode list or playlist.
  • Or tap on an episode on any page, and tap Archive on the episode card. Please note: if you have Play Up Next On Tap enabled, you will need to long press an episode in Up Next to access its episode card.
  • In the Now Playing screen tap Archive in the player toolbar. By default, Archive is in the toolbar’s three dot menu, but you can customize the toolbar so that Archive is one of your quick access shortcuts if you wish.

Manually archive episodes in bulk

  • On a podcast’s page, tap the three dot menu > tap Archive All to archive all episodes of that podcast.
  • Enter multi-select mode on a podcast’s page, in a playlist, or the Downloads list(long press an episode row or tap the three dot menu > Select Episodes) > tap Archive in the multi-select action bar. By default, Archive is in the action bar’s three dot menu, but you can customize the action bar so that Archive is one of your shortcuts.
  • In the Up Next screen tap Select > select episodes manually or tap Select All > three dot menu > Archive.

How To Automatically Archive Episodes

Auto archive episodes for all followed podcasts

  1. Tap Profile
  2. Tap the Settings cog
  3. Tap Auto Archive
  • Played Episodes: choose whether episodes should be archived as soon as they are finished playing, at some point later, or never.
  • Inactive Episodes: episodes are considered inactive when you haven’t played, downloaded or unarchived within a given period of time.
  • Include Starred Episodes: if toggled on starred episodes will be auto archived, if toggled off starred episodes will not be auto archived.

Note: Auto Archive only applies to podcast episodes. User-uploaded Files cannot be archived, and Auto Archive settings do not affect them.

Auto archive episodes per podcast

  1. Go to that podcast’s page
  2. Tap the Settings cog
  3. Tap Auto Archive
  4. Toggle on Custom for This Podcast
  • Archive Played Episodes: choose whether episodes should be archived as soon as they are finished playing, at some point later, or never.
  • Archive Inactive Episodes: episodes are considered inactive when you haven’t played, downloaded or unarchived within a given period of time.
  • Episode Limit: setting a limit will only keep the most recent 1, 2, 5, or 10 episodes, while archiving any that are older.

To show or hide episodes you’ve archived of a particular podcast tap Show Archived / Hide Archived on that podcast’s page.

This is also available as a global setting at Profile > settings cog > General > Archived Episodes.

How To Unarchive Episodes

  • Swipe right to left over an archived episode in an episode list.
  • Or tap the episode, then tap Unarchive.
  • Or if all episodes of a podcast are archived, tap the vertical ellipsis and tap Unarchive All.

Note: Archiving an episode doesn’t change the playing status, so you won’t lose where you’re up to, and you’ll also always know whether you’ve played something or not.

Pro Tip: You can also enter multi-select mode using the native 2 finger pan gesture in an episode list.

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