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Stop Spotify from playing "Next from.." episodes of a podcast instead of playing sequentially!

Stop Spotify from playing "Next from.." episodes of a podcast instead of playing sequentially!

Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device

iPad Pro 2021/Google Pixel 3a/Desktop/Google Home/Alexa

Operating System

Most recent of all as of March 2022

 

 

My Question or Issue

I've always enjoyed listening to podcasts but recently I'm getting so frustrated! When I want to listen to podcast episodes or catch up with a bunch, instead of me pressing play on one episode and Spotify working its way down the line, instead it plays random episodes in the queue (most I've already heard?!) which today I found out is due to the queue "Next from..." situated below the main Spotify Queue. How can I turn this off?

I want to listen to my podcast episodes in order, not in a random order that Spotify/The Podcast dictates!

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Hey @kellalizard,

 

Thanks for posting here.

 

Could you please share with us a video recording of what you're seeing? Just make sure that any sensitive or private info is hidden. We'll look into this further.

 

Keep us posted.

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Thanks for your reply. Please see screenshot below. Rather than play podcasts in order Newest to Oldest, or Oldest to Newest, or even just stop playing entirely - it does this. It seems to pick the order at random and it's so annoying for it to start playing episodes from 4 years ago or things I've already listened to. It does it with every podcast. And even if I give a podcast a break for a while and have a few episodes to catch up on, it doesn't even do that in order. It just does this "Next up..." And I can't see where to turn it off. It does it on this Windows PC I'm on now, and my Pixel 3A, but I noticed it didn't do it on my Mac at home yesterday, it just stopped playing after 1 episode.spotify.jpg

On the screenshot above, I'm aware that they are in order - however it either doesn't play them in this order, or the Next Up... Playlist is randomly generated, as other podcasts just play random episodes.

Hey @kellalizard,

 

Thanks for getting back to us.

 

Could you please try logging in to another account on the same devices to see if that makes a difference?

 

In case you've tried other troubleshooting steps let us know. That way we can avoid repeating steps.

 

If nothing changes, could you try sharing with us a video recording of the issue? From the screenshot it seems like the podcast episodes are listed as they were uploaded which should be the expected behavior. Once we have a video recording, we can investigate this further.

 

Keep us in the loop.

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