Podcasts: How do I Mark As Played?

[BigMick]

Apologies if this is a duplicate post, but none of the prior posts seemed to have any answers.

Heard your ad, so I just went to switch over listening to my favorite podcast on Spotify. However, it now shows hundreds of episodes as "unplayed." I don't want to see a giant list, only the ones I haven't actually listened to. I don't see any option to mark them as played.

1. How do I mark an individual episode as "Played" if I listen on another device? 

2. How do I mark several hundred episodes as "Played" so this stop showing up in my lists?

This seems like basic stuff for any podcast player - what am I missing?

Mick

[shanahanjrs]

I'd also like to know, I listen to podcasts like JRE and SYSK which have a ton of episodes and i always "skip" to the next one with ~1 min left which leaves it marked as unfinished, but if I could manually use the desktop app to mark it as played that'd be a great help.

[BigMick]

No response whatsoever from Spotify yet? This is so basic as to make me
wonder if anybody at Spotify uses their own platform for listening to
podcasts! ☺