[Enhancement]: audiobookshelf as a universal podcast client

[aaro-n]

Describe the feature/enhancement

Thanks to the audiobookshelf project, some podcasts cannot be played problems have been solved. I want to use audiobookshelf as a universal client, but I found some problems with audiobookshelf:

Audio cannot be played online, it can only be played after downloading (WEB side).

All the general podcast clients I use can be played online. Audiobookshelf must be downloaded before it can be played, which will consume the traffic of deploying audiobookshelf. I deployed audiobookshelf on fly.io. The free package can cover my consumption. If I will When audiobookshelf is used as the main podcast client, these are not enough.

Can the starred content in audiobookshelf be saved to an S3-like service?

The self-built service may be unstable. Although I can back up my own data, I still hope to save it to cloud storage.

[advplyr]

We've talked about this quite a bit and this is outside the scope of the project. Downloading podcast episodes from an RSS feed should be seen more as a quality of life feature to make getting episodes on your server easier instead of viewed as a traditional podcast app where you subscribe to RSS feeds.

I wrote some more thoughts on this here #2216 (comment)

I'm not sure what you mean about the S3 service, feel free to expand on that and maybe I can help.