An excellent suggestion from James Cridland over on https://podcastindex.social/ was to have the ability to store on the directory the "most recently played position" for each podcast in a feed. This would allow a user to pause playing on one app, and then pick up from the last position on another app.
This was a relatively simple API to add in a generic way so that it can apply to any media type. The position that's stored is just an integer value. For audio/video this could be the number of seconds into the playback. For written words it could be a paragraph number.
So now, the API contains:
/api/1.0/Episode/Position/Set
/api/1.0/Episode/Position/Get
Really look forward to this being supported in podcast players.
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