Mark first N (or all but last N) podcasts as downloaded

[terminalmage]

When adding a podcast to the feed, many times you only want the latest episode. To acheive this, the only way to do so (that I can see) is to mark EVERYTHING as downloaded, then edit the log file to remove the URLs for the podcasts you would still like to download. Given that there is no order to the logfile, this isn't as easy as just deleting the stuff from the bottom.

Also, the above is a poor option because it affects every feed with episodes waiting for download. Unless there is a way to mark a single feed as fully-downloaded, which I do not see in the help message.

[zerodogg]

So essentially what you would like to see is an option to add a feed, download the first entry and then label everything else in the feed as downloaded?

[terminalmage]

Well, separate options to mark first N (or all but last N) episodes as downloaded would be best. Then goldenpod could be re-run separately later if you don't want to download at the same time.

[zerodogg]

Got any specific syntax in mind? Ie. "goldenpod --add http://example.org/feed.rss 2" could work, but is rather unintuitive (and sort of clashes with the declaration of fuzzy parsing).

[terminalmage]

Well, the flow I was thinking was more that one would add the podcast, then run a separate command to mark all but the last N podcasts as read. A standalone option like that could be applied to a podcast to which you have already subscribed. Consider this scenario:

1. User uses goldenpod primarily for a while.
2. User gets smartphone with podcast downloader.
3. User listens to several weeks worth of episodes exclusively on smartphone, meanwhile not touching goldenpod.
4. User wants to listen to recent episodes on computer, but now has no way to download the newest episodes without downloading the ones in between.