Moving about within long podcasts on Garmin Spotify

[John_Vaughan]

Plan

Premium

Country

 UK

Device

Garmin Fenix 5+

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

 I tend to find the Spotify app on Garmin smartwatches (i have the Fenix 5+) tends to crash in between sessions, so for example, after listening to 1hr of a 2hr podcast, pausing it and when i attempt to pick it up where i left off the next day, i find it has 'stuck' and the whole watch needs resetting to get it to work again. That's a little irritiating, but by far the more annoying thing is that you then have to spend quite a few minutes skipping through the podcast to get to the 1hr point by repeatedly pressing the 'fwd 15sec' button. Repetitive strain kicks in after a minute or so, and it can't help the watch. Is there a way of incorporating a feature that skips minutes at a time when you hold the 'fwd 15sec' button? 

Otherwise, skipping around hours of a multi-hour podcast (think Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, average length 4-5hrs!) is effectively impossible.

So to summarize, we have two problems here:

 i) crashing when attempting to resume a podcast midway through ;

 ii) enabling faster skipping (fwd and back) within long podcasts by holding the skip button.

Thank you very much indeed.

[ChristophMartin]

Can't believe this isn't possible

[joshuarama]

I also find this incredibly frustrating.  I paid for Spotify premium so that I would be able to listen to Podcasts while running.

[Xenia]

Hi @joshuarama,

We understand where you're coming from and will make sure all your feedback reaches the right teams and our developers will take it into consideration when moving forward with updating the app.

You could also have a look in the Idea Exchange, to see if someone else has already made a similar suggestion and if not post your own.

The Idea Exchange is a great way for us to see what our users are interested in and how many people like a certain idea. You can read more about it here.

Hope this info is useful. Give us a shout if there's anything else we can help you with.