Podcast is marked as played as soon as I hit play

[maccagnodenis]

Plan

Premium

Country

Switzerland

Device

iPhone 15 pro

Operating System

iOS 17.5.1

My Question or Issue

Hi guys

I‘ve been having this problem for a while now. When I hit play on a podcast that I saved in my library (my episodes), it will instantly be marked as heared and disappear from the playlist. It doesn‘t happen with every podcast, which makes it harder to understand.

Does anybody has had the same problem?

Regards, Denis

[mksmith0586]

Can you please fix your app? When I start to play a podcast it skips to finish, removes it from my podcast episode library. I then have to go back into the show page, re-add the podcast (which says I have finished the episode) and I have definitely not. I have to hit the add and download buttons about 8 times before it reloads. And then frequently that whole situation cycles through again. I love Spotify, but this is making things tough.

[TheLazyHangman]

This started happening to me since the last Android app update (9.0.30.642). I have the Unplayed filter on and the unfinished episodes don't show up anymore. They are marked as played as soon as I hit play and disappear from the list. I don't think skipping half played episodes is the expected behavior of the filter, they should be marked as played when they're finished, otherwise you have no way to resume from when you stopped.

This is not happening on the desktop (Windows) version of the app.

[Jamda10]

I have the same problem which seems to have started just a few days ago. Please return to the previous behavior otherwise the Sort by Unplayed function becomes practically useless. Thanks

[jonas_da_mjölpösen]

I've got the same problem, since maybe a week.

Everything an episode is started, it is marked as finished. Makes the filter function useless.

Maybe time to have that team start working on a solution?

[Ivelina]

Hey folks,

Welcome to the thread.

As we've gotten some recent reports of this issue, we'd like to gather some additional details in order to be able to investigate further.

It would be very helpful if you could send us the following details (in case you've not already done so):

• Is this happening with particular podcast episodes or multiple ones?
• Troubleshooting steps that you've performed.
• Device(s) this is happening on and the OS version(s).
• Exact Spotify-version you're currently using.

Thanks for the cooperation and we'll be on the lookout.

@jonas_da_mjölpösen @Jamda10 @TheLazyHangman @mksmith0586 @Phelm @Kotaroman5000

[Orion_S]

iPhone 12 Pro, up to date app

never had this issue then added new podcast to my list and started to face these issue myself. Only occurs when trying to play an episode of “Red Thread” podcast, no other podcast I listen to I suffer from this issue, only the one. 

[Dessi]

Hey @Orion_S,

Thanks for reaching out!

We've been trying to gather some info about this, but it looks like we don't have enough user reports so it looks like it's fixed for the majority. Since it only happens to a specific podcast, we would assume the issue lies with it so we'd recommend keeping the app up-to-date to not miss out on a possible future fix.

Take care.