Podcast plays in reverse order

[griever1988]

Plan

Free

Country

Germany

Device

PC

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

There are already a lot of threads about this. But this bug is still not fixed yet. 

Podcasts always play in reverse order. (new to old)

But i want to hear them from old to new.

I can change the display order. I can also filter out the episodes i already heard. But this doesn't change anything. It still plays in reverse order, and also filtered episodes.

I already reinstalled Spotify twice. It didn't help. 

Please fix this.

[griever1988]

Yes still working for me. To try and help out I've even tested it by changing to music and back again. When I select a music album the queue automatically clears all of the podcasts and puts the music in normal running order. Then I went back to my podcast and the queue is full of the episodes in order from latest one I'm listening to right down to the last episode. The only other things I've tried in recent times are a clean install and going into the setting icon while on a podcast, then going to Manage "mark as played" and then clearing that entire list. Then manually scrolling through each episode to make it mark as played again. Once you're back to where you're up to maybe clear the queue again, then set filters to unplayed and oldest/newest depending on your preference. Then click on the current episode to play and then hopefully Spotify should order your queue correctly from then onwards. I've attached images as proof this is still working how it should for me.  

 

 

 

[griever1988]

FOUND THE FIX FOR THIS:

I was getting so frustrated that Spotify kept playing my podcasts in reverse order even when I had the sort/filters set to oldest and unplayed. For example I'd start episode 16 and once that episode had finished it would go onto episode 15 and then 14 etc. Even skipping tracks manually was reversed. Turns out it's the queue (accessible bottom right of now playing screen) that's causing the reverse order. Simple fix is to remove all the tracks from the queue. Will see how long this fix lasts for.

[lcogaz]

ISSUE:

1. Spotify Offline podcasts are not played in the correct order and t
2. he offline records are not logged as played

See the original play list and then after finishing the play in jumps to another program that was already reproduced 

you can easily get to see the log of my recordings and allocate the one’s duplicated or replay because miss a flag of “already reproduced”

• Device IOS 17.7
• Iphone Xs Max
• Spotify app: 8.976.516
• No VPN; use with WiFi or offline; sometimes mobile data
• ISSUE1:
• No matter the media when I download podcasts that I listen offline, those are not log in the reproduced pipeline… so this causes latter on I found myself listening again the same podcast
• This causes me to lost opportunity to listen other new stuff
• ISSUE2:
• The list of play does not follow the order I need, can you add edit features to allow the reproduction in the correct order? Example Podcasts with Part 1 and Part 2… the app does play first the most recent, in this case Part 2
• I only play on this device

Regards

Luis Ogaz

[badams007]

Just to add a recent update. I use Spotify on an updated android, Samsung s21, and it's almost random what order it picks for the day. Sometimes in goes in the order you expect, sometimes it flips it around. I listen to podcasts and can't rely on Spotify to just go to the next episode at times, so I have to make a queue, but every other day, it decides to go backwards. Doesn't seem to have a rhyme or reason. I've had this issue for a couple of years. Updates don't seem to offer a permanent fix 🤷

[IrishArt]

Try turning off shuffle on your other playlists for music. That seems to have fixed the issue for me and now all the episodes play chronologically.

[SLK55]

Just wanted to report that I have been experiencing the same issue for roughly a year now. Tried following various other steps listed here but to no avail. 

[TheOGTonyG]

The queue is not causing the problem, the order of the queue is a symptom of the problem which remains unfixed.

[toddmaddison]

Yes, problem still exists. We appear to be being ignored by Spotify. It
would be interesting to hear why they think listening in reverse order is a
good idea as a default.

[snlzkn]

I have been using Spotify for more than 5 years and I only recently started having this problem. I sort the podcast oldest first and filter for unplayed. Then I check the queue to verify that the order is correct. At some point not clear to me exactly when, the order in the queue changes! I have to go to another playlist and then back to my podcast to clear the queue and have it in the correct order again. This seems to happen very frequently and it is quite annoying. In my case I am using Android 15, Spotify 9.0.24.601

[dgyp]

STILL NOT FIXED.  This is a really lame bug- why would anyone ALWAYS want to play lists backwards.  And heck, maybe just play them in the sort-order so that I can change it any time I want by just changing the sort order - that feature works.

It looks to me like they get in queue and the queue is backwards (why?).  I can manually clear the queue but I have no faith it'll remain in date-order.  Please fix!!!

[Heroicdose]

Been happening to me for a while. I have tried clean install. No help. It happens on my pixel phone but didn't happen on a Samsung tablet I had.

[Walesnick81]

Android pixel 7. 

Premium 

Same problem as listed. No matter what I do they play in reverse order! Been like this for years!!! And when driving in the car it's an absolute pain in the neck. 

How have you not sorted this issue??

[GerryADS]

UK FAMILY PREMIUM
WIN10 X64 App
Web platform
iOS

This is still ongoing and the first reference to this issue was from 2015 - I have this exact issue on the web platform, on the Win10X64 App and iOS. If I want to listen to episode 139 of 186, it will either jump to episode 186 when 139 finishes or just finish ep 139 & play nothing else. Sometimes, it might actually populate the queue, but it will be the current ep139 playing, then next in queue is 138, then 137 & so forth. If I double click on ep163, it will show as Now Playing, and next in queue is either 186 (always the latest episode) or nothing, or it goes 163, 162, 161..... It doesn't matter if you change from newest to oldest or oldest to newest. I have cleared  cache, logged in and out, uninstalled, re-installed, it remains the same, there has been the odd occasion, where it actually seemed to work i.e. I am listening to ep139, then when it finishes it starts ep140, but then you go away or listen to something else & it is broken again. The customer support suggestion of just manually clicking on the the next episode I wish to listen to, is not helpful to those wishing to listen to a podcast in series order, when driving, as many do. It appears that only way to make it work consistently in series order, as most people would expect it to work, is to create your own playlist, as an exact copy of the podcast you are listening to, which brings me to my next bugbear, in that there is no means to select more than 1 episode and add it to the playlist, not great when the podcast has several hundred episodes! 

[uali23]

When trying to click the link, I get an access denied page. Is there a new link for this forum?

[jasonhpchu]

I can confirm and just experienced this, so even though the queue is ascending, it will at times randomly flip on you.

Several days ago, I noticed if I LOOK at the queue like minutes before the episode ends, and if I see that it is ascending, Spotify will go to the next episode no problem.

Seeing that it worked one episode, I left it.  Next day I kept listening, DID NOT LOOK in queue, and when it jumped to next episode, it went up to previous episode.  I then look at queue, and it's magically in reverse order.

I think this is only with podcast, as it seems there's some coding that actively queues up your next episodes.

So what you see there, might not be the same queue the next day.

They need to fix this, as with the currently broken unfinished filter, I now need to scroll through thousands of episodes just to get to where I need to in order.

[uali23]

Nah, not just podcasts, I have that happening when listening to music too
which is very annoying for me. Especially when it connects to CarPlay, it’s
a massive pain to go through 1 song then it goes to a song it played on the
last drive I had

[brotorious]

2025. Still broken. What a joke.

[TheOGTonyG]

I ended up returning to Podcast Addict because the functionality in Spotify is not quite there yet.

Between this, recent playback issues on IoT devices, sand the lack of an annual discount for the subscription, I'm finding it harder to justify the frequent price increases.

[kpuff]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iPhone 15 

Operating System

iOS 18.5 -but also happened with previous versions of iOS 

My Question or Issue

I typically listen to podcasts in order from oldest to newest, and can listen to multiple episodes in a row this way without issue, but if I change from listening on my headphones to listening through my car’s Bluetooth system (or vice versa) it reverse's the order. I’m not sure why this happens, but thought maybe there is a bug in the app that should be brought to Spotify’s attention. It’s particularly frustrating when I’m driving and cannot safely pull up the app to change to the correct episode. 

[Parax]

How do I get these two shows to show in the same order??

I want Show 1 to show in the same order as Show 2 (Being Most Recent Presented First)

Show 1: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Hp5QDk9PsWyEXtcsDz34a

Show 2: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pqW0HTIeZcx7vqHpwzmZj

If I open these links in incognito on different browsers on different devices Show 1 is always Oldest first and Show 2 is always Newest first 

[Johnboyrussell]

So this was meant to be passed onto the relevant team in 2022, but it's still happening! It's so annoying. 

[BassiBabes]

I have the same issue on my Pixel phone and Lenovo tablet. It's so annoying!