topic Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying in Other (Podcasts, Partners, etc.)

Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

tokyohomo — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:43:45 GMT

Plan
Premium
Country
Japan
Device
iPhone 8/iPhone 12
Operating System
iOS 16.6
My Question or Issue
Even though I have listed to episodes of a podcast, once an episode is over often I have podcast episodes I’ve already listened to & are marked as played start playing. I’ve seen a lot of people complain that Spotify won’t play Marked as Played episodes, but I’m having the opposite problem. I hate having to go into the app & change the episode to a new one & leaving a marked as played episode partly watched…
Can’t find anyone else having this problem on the forums or Reddit.
Please help.

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

Dian — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:28:33 GMT

Hey @tokyohomo,

Thanks for posting in the Community.

Could you try using a different account to check if this behavior is persistent? Does this happen with a specific podcast or with all of the ones you've tried?

Just to make sure, could you perform a clean reinstall of the app as described here?

Let us know how that went.

Cheers!

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

tokyohomo — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:19:41 GMT

Thank you for the reply!

I did a clean install as you suggested and at first my queue was clear but I clicked on an older podcast episode (I’m trying to listen from newest to oldest) and it repopulated the queue to play from older to newer, including episodes I’ve already played. I reversed the filter to from oldest to newest, but the queue hasn’t changed.
My main issue is why is it playing episodes that are marked as played? I want to skip those episodes…

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

Dian — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 05:42:59 GMT

Hey @tokyohomo,

Thanks for the reply and the troubleshooting you've tried.

Does the same behavior occur with a different account or on a different device?

Have you listened the marked as played podcasts to the end or just a specific portion of them?

It'd be helpful if you could provide a short screen recording of the experience so we can better reproduce it on our end.

Keep us posted.

Cheers!

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

tokyohomo — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:02:43 GMT

Thank you for the continued support!

I’ve attached two screenshots (btw this forum doesn’t support jpeg files but iPhones take screenshots in jpeg format…). You can see the podcast I’m listening to is one episode after the latest played, more recent episode. I started playing this episode with a blank queue after re-installing the app. But, after I started playing it, the queue filled with the newer, played episode (other screenshot, check the name of the episode with the one in the episode list screenshot). So, for some reason Spotify is thinking I want to go back & play newer-but-played episodes. I don’t see any setting to change this…

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

Alex — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:48:07 GMT

Hey there @tokyohomo,

Thanks for the info.

One possible fix to this would be to listen to the previously played episodes to the end. It's enough just to scroll to the last remaining seconds and let the episode finish. After that, the episode should be marked as finished and you shouldn't be getting it to pop up in your queue. Let us know if this works for you.

Cheers.

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

tokyohomo — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:54:04 GMT

Hi Alex,

Thank you for the recommendation. I tried that and it kinda worked; it brought the queue back showing the next episode to play next, but in the queue are already played episodes.

Are played podcasts supposed to show up in the queue? Is there a setting to stop played podcasts from playing? If not, I really don’t think I can keep using Spotify as this is far too annoying to deal vs. apps like Overcast that easily let you set these preferences. It sucks because I’m paying for Spotify…

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

Alex — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:35:51 GMT

Hi there @tokyohomo,

Thanks for the post.

You can already filter the podcast episodes by Unplayed by tapping on "Filter" next to "All episodes" and choosing the "Unplayed" option in the mobile app. This can be also done in the desktop app by following the same steps.

On the Desktop app you can do this by opening a podcast page > Clicking on "All episodes" and selecting Unplayed.

Unfortunately, you won't be able to filter your queue and automated recommendations, but it should work if you filter your episodes before hand and manually add them to the queue.

Hope this info helps.

playing already listened episodes

dpat007 — Sun, 05 May 2024 19:47:32 GMT

Plan: Premium
Country: Austria
Device: iPhone 12 mini

My Question or Issue
when listening to podcasts the app starts always episodes which already listened instead of jumping to unlistened episodes.

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

Iron_883 — Fri, 10 May 2024 04:59:09 GMT

Still doing it now, it's a very flakey app

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

BH85 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:20:27 GMT

Same here. (Using mobile app) I have to add them all to the queue in the order I want to listen to them. If I don’t add enough it replays old episodes. If I change to a different playlist, I have to clear the queue and then re-add them if I come back to this podcast. Also, auto play does not resume where I left off, it starts with old episodes already listened to. Sometimes it will repeat the same episode in a row.

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

Apollo2231 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:17:15 GMT

Same here. Seems like it would be an easy fix for them to add a "don't play finished episodes" option. This coupled with the fact that despite paying for an ad free experience with premium, we still get ads in podcasts makes me not want to listen to podcasts on Spotify. They should really just stick with the music. The app was so much better then. I'm having a more difficult time defending Spotify to my Apple/YouTube music friends with every new "feature" they roll out.

Podcast goes back to old episodes

Roninaori — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:14:38 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Israel

Device

Galaxy a54

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

Recently when I listen to podcasts, at the end of an episode it goes back to a very old one and goes forward.

For example, I listen to episode number 247, and when it ends it always goes back to episode 232 and the queue goes forwards from then, 233, 234 etc. Even though the old episode are marked as listened. And it keeps happening even after I deleted the app and reinstalled

Saved podcast episodes keep replaying

meguisb — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 21:02:16 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Portugal

Device

Samsung Galaxy S22

Operating System

Android 14

My Question or Issue

Saved podcast episodes keep starting over and replaying after I finish them, as pictured in the attachments

The queue for the desktop app is broken again.

Doozerpindan — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:00:32 GMT

A while ago, the queue refused to play podcasts in the right order, always playing the previous episode instead of the next. That *seems* to be fixed, thank god.

There's a shiny new issue, though. Now the queue will keep adding episodes of a podcast to the queue that I have already listened to. The only "fix" seems to be manually adding episodes, but the list under that (next from x) refuses to clear. I remove all the episodes i don't want from the queue and they just reappear again. The podcast i am trying to listen to is pretty long, has over 650 episodes.

EDIT: I have tried clearing the cache, deleting all downloaded songs, and reinstalling from a fresh download of the app.

Re: Marked as Played Podcasts Replaying

mariodrek — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:35:33 GMT

This happens to me as well.
It is very frustrating while driving and it randomly jumps to an already played episode.
It jumps to episodes that were previously played until the last second because I let them go to the next episode automatically, but sometimes it does not go to the next one, it goes back to an already marked as played one, which I am not able to understand why. So the solution presented here does not work.
Then it leaves a marked as played episode partially played. Sometimes, at least for me, it even jumps to mark as played episodes from other shows, instead of jumping to an episode that is from the current show. It's like random stuff happening for some reason.

Not sure how the queue list is built to make stuff like this happen.