Reminds me of a bug that I field for my podcatcher.
It has an automatic playlist feature where it automatically queues up next episodes based on some simple rules.
One of the rules is "alternate podcasts" to ensure that you rotate through podcasts rather than listening ot just one because it happens to be the oldest or similar.
I noticed that I was always listening to the same two podcasts despite having this feature enabled.
It turns out that whenever it downloaded a new episode it would regenerate the playlist and forget about where it was in the rotation. So when I finished and episode it would download the next one and reorder the queue, putting the other podcast next.
I filed that to the developer and they said "working as intended", when you change the set of downloaded podcasts the playlist is regenerated. And said they wouldn't fix it.
But this behaviour is clearly not what it should be, it defeats most of the point of the "alternate podcasts" flag (It only works correctly if you only ever have two eligible podcasts or disable auto-download)
I had literally this exact same scenario happen but with Podcast Addict. It's still my favorite podcast app by far but the auto re-sorting threw me off for a while until I got used to it.
It has an automatic playlist feature where it automatically queues up next episodes based on some simple rules.
One of the rules is "alternate podcasts" to ensure that you rotate through podcasts rather than listening ot just one because it happens to be the oldest or similar.
I noticed that I was always listening to the same two podcasts despite having this feature enabled.
It turns out that whenever it downloaded a new episode it would regenerate the playlist and forget about where it was in the rotation. So when I finished and episode it would download the next one and reorder the queue, putting the other podcast next.
I filed that to the developer and they said "working as intended", when you change the set of downloaded podcasts the playlist is regenerated. And said they wouldn't fix it.
But this behaviour is clearly not what it should be, it defeats most of the point of the "alternate podcasts" flag (It only works correctly if you only ever have two eligible podcasts or disable auto-download)