topic How to stop podcasts from automatically playing in Android https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/How-to-stop-podcasts-from-automatically-playing/m-p/4742284#M150014 <P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P><STRONG>Country</STRONG></P><P>USA&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Device</STRONG><SPAN>&nbsp;Samsung Galaxy 7</SPAN></P><P><STRONG>Operating System&nbsp;</STRONG><SPAN>A</SPAN><SPAN>ndroid&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>The new podcast suggestions are autoplaying. I pay for music not podcasts. How can I stop this major annoyance?&nbsp;</P><P>To be clear, I never want to hear people talking when I'm paying for music.</P><P>This is beyond frustrating and Spotify should be ashamed of themselves for doing this to me!&nbsp;</P> Sun, 05 May 2019 16:30:19 GMT SpeedyMan 2019-05-05T16:30:19Z How to stop podcasts from automatically playing https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/How-to-stop-podcasts-from-automatically-playing/m-p/4742284#M150014 <P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P><STRONG>Country</STRONG></P><P>USA&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Device</STRONG><SPAN>&nbsp;Samsung Galaxy 7</SPAN></P><P><STRONG>Operating System&nbsp;</STRONG><SPAN>A</SPAN><SPAN>ndroid&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>The new podcast suggestions are autoplaying. I pay for music not podcasts. How can I stop this major annoyance?&nbsp;</P><P>To be clear, I never want to hear people talking when I'm paying for music.</P><P>This is beyond frustrating and Spotify should be ashamed of themselves for doing this to me!&nbsp;</P> Sun, 05 May 2019 16:30:19 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/How-to-stop-podcasts-from-automatically-playing/m-p/4742284#M150014 SpeedyMan 2019-05-05T16:30:19Z Re: How to stop podcasts from automatically playing https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/How-to-stop-podcasts-from-automatically-playing/m-p/4745322#M150216 <P>Hey <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7033087">@SpeedyMan</a>.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks for posting on the Community about this.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Could you give us a bit more info about your issue, including some steps to reproduce and perhaps a screen recording if possible?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>We'll be looking out for your reply <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></P> Thu, 09 May 2019 11:31:21 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/How-to-stop-podcasts-from-automatically-playing/m-p/4745322#M150216 Peter 2019-05-09T11:31:21Z Re: How to stop podcasts from automatically playing https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/How-to-stop-podcasts-from-automatically-playing/m-p/4860895#M159617 Sorry for the delay in responding. This is no longer an issue. I do not know why it changed but am glad it no longer auto-plays podcasts. Thanks Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:58:32 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/How-to-stop-podcasts-from-automatically-playing/m-p/4860895#M159617 SpeedyMan 2019-11-21T17:58:32Z