When changing between playback devices, the playlist is started from the beginning

[chessami92]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, Google home mini

Operating System

Android 14

My Question or Issue

As of recently, whenever I switch between my phone and google home mini or vice versa, whatever playlist I am listening to starts back from the beginning. This happens on regular playlists, a song radio, daily mix etc. It used to pick up where it left off, so it seems like something changed recently. 

[crownedham]

I’m not sure why but there was another post that involved queues repeating without device switching and it got merged into this 

[DaddehGhost]

This has literally been my issue for damn near all year.. And would seem many others.

I’d prefer my Spotify to work correctly… Vs being “fixed” and rebroken. Makes listening (and enjoying) music more of a pain than it really should be.

If I wanted to hear the same songs over and over again, I’d listen to the radio where it’s free..

[LlNGUINE]

There are a few quirks I have noticed with this issue that may help find a solution. I listen for several hours each day at around the same time and the Playlist tends to add songs back in around the 3rd day of listening to songs or about 48 hours after the initial play. The issue never seems to trigger on the first day of listening. The Playlist needs to be fairly large to trigger, but I have had it happen with Playlists as low as 600 songs. It normally triggers after a full close of the app, however I have gotten it to trigger after adding songs into the queue as well. Also, if I remove songs from the queue, those end up getting shuffled back to the top sooner, normally about a full day before the glitch normally occurs. So my guess is it has to do with the sessions function, as it seems to add all of the songs from your previous session back to the top.

[Kubs7pl]

It was fine for a few days, not quite as it should have been, but it was fine. But with the new update, it went back to how it was.

[Samuvarga]

Plan

Premium

Country

Hungary

Device

iPhone 13

Operating System

iOS 26.1

My Question or Issue

When using shuffle on a playlist, the playback often resets to the beginning of the shuffled order unexpectedly. This happens frequently when switching devices (e.g., PC ↔ phone, TV ↔ phone) or connecting to car Bluetooth. The shuffle seed and current position are not preserved, and I rarely get past 5% of the playlist before it jumps back to the start.