Cannot replay podcast episodes.

[bkennedy2]

Plan

Premium

Country

US

Device

iPhone 7

Operating System

iOS 12.3.1

My Question or Issue

I cannot replay podcasts once they've been completed. Sometimes at work they'll just be playing in the background and I am not able to fully focus so I might go back and try and listen to them again. If I try to select a podcast which was already played it automatically skips to the next unplayed episode.

I am currently on spotify version 8.5.7.601.

[Billy-J]

Hey @bkennedy2, thanks for reaching out to the Community!

Could you try logging out > restart device > log back in? If that doesn't help, then could you try a clean reinstall of the Spotify app?

Let me know how this goes 🙂

[bkennedy2]

Logging out and logging back in did not fix the issue. After, I tried uninstalling the app and doing a clean install. Doing so allowed me to play the episode again, but as a test I went to the end of an episode and then allowed it to finish playback. Once it moved on to the next episode I was again unable to play the previously played one. So this doesn't seem to have fixed the problem.

[Billy-J]

Hey @bkennedy2,

Thanks for getting back to me!

Could you try this on a different device (for example the web player at work) and let me know what happens? Also, what happens when you try a friend or family members account? That way we might narrow down the cause.

Keep me posted 🙂

[whitegrapes]

In case anyone else comes across this issue—this is what worked for me: I marked the episode as played, and then was able to press play and have it work accordingly. 

Seems like a bug that Spotify should fix!

[Entropiclogic]

I’ve seen a lot of issues with this and experienced it myself. Logging out and back in doesn’t fix it. Reinstalling doesn’t fix it. Just add an option to “play from beginning.” Please.

[Entropiclogic]

Thank you! I’ve had this problem for as long as I’ve had the app and I guess the moderators don’t use the app and have no idea what we’re talking about.

[eproofreader]

Thank you for this workaround! I ended up going to Apple Podcasts and searching for the episode there so I could listen to it! I tend to fall asleep listening to podcasts and then want to replay them the following day.

[whitegrapes]

You’re welcome! 🙂

[eproofreader]

Unfortunately, it did not work the second time I tried it, so back to Apple Podcasts I went! Sigh. Thanks anyway.