Show chapters without playing episode

[wshanks]

Checklist

• I have used the search function for open and closed issues to see if someone else has already submitted the same feature request.
• I will describe the problem with as much detail as possible.
• This request contains only one single feature, not a list of multiple (related) features.

App version

2.7.1

Where did you get the app from

F-Droid

Problem you may be having, or feature you want

#5630 added support for Podcasting 2.0 chapter marks for downloaded episodes. This was a reasonable first step since there was only UI for chapters for currently playing episodes. Also, there were concerns about chapter data changing more frequently than the other data and so delaying until the user downloaded/streamed the episode would give more accurate results without the code complexity and overhead of rechecking.

I think it would be useful to access the chapter data without playing the episode. I use AntennaPod to listen to all my podcasts but I have Podverse installed as well to check out Podcasting 2.0 features since it implements them more quickly. Besides just demoing things, the one practical use case I have found for Podverse is to check the chapters for podcasts that do only a short overview in the show notes but provide chapter marks. It is helpful to know if the topic I am interested in is a two minute discussion or a twenty minute one. It would be great to check this without leaving AntennaPod.

Suggested solution

It would be great to have a chapters button on the episode page or the menu accessed in the upper right for that page. Given the concerns mentioned above, clicking the button could download the chapter data on demand if that is better than predownloading it with the feed data.

I suppose this proposal has some interaction with downloaded episodes. My main use case is non-downloaded episodes to save the ~100MB download just to see the chapters, but currently chapters are only visible on the playing view. For a downloaded episode, the chapter data would already be downloaded so it wouldn't need to be downloaded again when tapping the button.

I think a current workaround is to start streaming an episode and pause it. That let's you see the chapters and saves downloading the full episode, but it isn't the best user experience.

Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details

I don't want to be so bold as to suggest adding an element to the main episode view (it would be nice for me at least). In the screenshot I clarify the menu I suggested above.