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Podcast plays in reverse order

Podcast plays in reverse order

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.

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Top Answer
Animalrv

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.  

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Top Answer
Animalrv

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.

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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. 

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 

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