Spotify wrong calcul of left minutes in podcast episode

[amfsilva]

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Portugal

Device

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

While in "Your episodes" when we see the list of episodes and we have some episode on going let say the episode has 30 minutes, and we are in the minute 3.

It is written  "3 minutes left", when it should have writen "27 minutes left". In the desktop version it works fine, the erro is in the Android ap, altough the green bar of the porpotion oof played/unplayed seems fine 

[whatanoob]

I can confirm it's fixed on my end.

[Eevee13]

It appears to be fixed for me. The playtimes are no automatically updating on the playlist page until I click away and click back, but then it is showing the correct times. 

[w1ll1amvl]

EDIT: Fixed by recent update 14-Mar-25

Plan

Premium Duo

Country

Australia 

Device

Google Pixel 8

Operating System

Android 15

My Question or Issue

Once started, a podcast episode in My Episodes should show the time remaining, but instead the time is now the opposite, so reads as "{time played} remaining". If you barely start an episode, it will show up with "<1min left" - see below. Not a functional issue, but should be easy to fix. 

[Shonuffharlem]

1. It is better but not completely fixed the issue happened to me today. Please fix! It happens if you go to Your Episodes, click on a podcast episode while it's playing, wait a bit, then hit back on andriod to go back to Your Episodes list. The time left on the Your Episodes list is incorrect like it's frozen from when you last left the Your Episodes list
2. It's failing to refresh. Sometimes it works sometimes not 

[OscarDC]

Hey @Shonuffharlem,

Thank you for keeping in contact.

if you're still having this issue, would you mind checking if your app is running its latest update? You can do it by following the steps mentioned in this article. 

If persistent, it's also worth performing a clean reinstall of the app as it helps getting rid of any cache that might be causing trouble. 

Hope this helps. Let us know how it goes.

[Shonuffharlem]

It's updated on March 17 2025. I've done two clean reinstalls since problem arose. 

[Eni]

Hey @Shonuffharlem, 

Thanks for your reply. 

You mentioned this was happening on two phones (Galaxy S21 and S25). Would you mind checking the exact OS and Spotify version they're running? You can find the OS version in your phones' settings > About phone > Android version. Also, the Spotify version can be found in the Spotify app by tapping on your profile picture in the upper left corner > Settings and Privacy > About > Version. 

We'll be waiting for your reply. 

[0s8-r2_lil58g]

I keep having this problem where the time length has become longer than it actually is. My neurodivergent brain likes to check how long of an episode I have left so this just makes it annoying. I deleted the app and reinstalled. Same issue.

 

 

 

[Shonuffharlem]

Happens all the time on all podcasts for months. Can also display wrong time left in podcast, wrong total time of podcast, and even on one screen show 1x speed even though I'm at 2x speed and another screen shows proper speed. 

It does NOT happen on my Samsung Tablet. ONLY S25 phone.

Note I have uninstalled the app after wiping it's cache and storage, then rebooting my phone, and reinstalling many times and after many updates. Bad Behavior still exist.

Version 

9.1.2.12 53

Andriod 16

HAPPENS ON S25 Phone but NOT on Samsung Tablet 

[Joan]

Hi @Shonuffharlem,

Thanks for the detailed reply.

One more thing that will help us truly narrow down on the root cause of this - would it be possible for you to log in on the affected S25 with a different account and test if the issue persists there? You can use the account of someone you know or make one yourself.

Thanks in advance. Let us know how it goes.

[mmortal03]

Are you guys not seeing the correct playback position when playing back at faster than 1x? That's one of the problems I'm having lately, where the player will display a playback position a lot further back than where the podcast actually is. The podcast will almost be finished, but the playback position on the bar will be positioned as if it still has a lot of time left. This is especially annoying because it doesn't show the correct section of the podcast that you're in.