Could this be extended to include podcast ad-skipping? Being able to define A-B points and adding that to a blocklist would be amazing. I have several podcasts I've essentially stopped listening to because they're so consumed by ads.
I personally am hoping that some of the podcasting 2.0 features will make it easy for listeners to tip podcasters directly. Once we have that, we could implement an ad-skipping feature which is then only activated for listeners who have tipped the podcast creator.
Being able to skip the ads would be a nice bonus, though I'll admit that I use the existing features to skip ad breaks extensively. (I still end up hearing enough that I'm familiar with the products, and even try to patronize them. In fact, I need some new socks...)
Great to hear your feedback regarding tipping. Maybe we should prioritize this feature.
All told with its various speedup features, I download about 30 hours of podcasts a week, but I probably spend half of that actually listening. (At least some of that is ditching episodes I find dull, but not many.)
Other than that I really am just used to my "workflow". New stuff gets downloaded and added to a queue. I imagine most podcast apps have something like that, but this one has a nice feature set for managing it all.
Thanks for asking. Good luck on your project!
(Full disclosure, I work for a service that helps monitize ad free feeds. Opinions are my own, don't reflect my employer, and obviously I'm biased.)