For news feeds, I'd really like to tell it "always play most recent, keep the last n newscasts, don't play older ones unless I manually start them, skip to next unread feed source after the most recent newscast completes.".

I'd typic'ly want to listen to the most recent 'cast from a two or three different Japanese news sources, then switch to whatever else is unread, especially when driving. I'd want to set this up as an automation, rather than spend time manually overriding (adding, removing, arranging) AntennaPod's playlist and manually ensuring each playlist item is downloaded before I go to places with spotty signal.

As it is, I go months at a time without using any podcasts players because I don't know how find one that fits my very idiosyncratic use case. Life is usually easier if I just ignore "the news" rather than 'fight' with getting sources ready one to three times per day. (>.>)