Plan

Premium

Country

US

Device

Huawei P20, Desktop PC

Operating System

Android 9, Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I started regularly listening to podcasts at the end of summer, 2020. I had listened to them on and off before, but this is when I started listening enough to notice this issue.

The queue automatically generated by Spotify when I'm listening to podcasts makes zero sense. It often includes episodes I've already listened to and otherwise jumps around with no discernable rhyme or reason. This, on top of no longer being able to sort episodes on the desktop player, is extremely annoying when I am working on catching up on a series. For example, I am currently working my way through "Behind the Bastards" in order, and I have gotten to episodes launched in August, 2019; every time I click away from the episode list on my computer, though, I have to scroll all the way down to find these older episodes since the option to sort has been removed. Now for the queue problem, I am currently listening to an episode that was released August 20, 2019 and is part four of a seven part series within the show. The next episode should be part five from August 21, part six from August 22, and so on. The release dates of the next 10 in the queue order Spotify generated are as follows:

1. 08/20/2019 (currently listening)
2. 04/14/2020
3. 07/21/2020
4. 01/07/2020
5. 09/10/2020
6. 03/10/2020
7. 02/06/2020
8. 02/01/2021
9. 07/30/2019 (already listened)
10. 07/09/2019 (already listened)

The queue continues on in this ridiculous order that makes no sense and makes it difficult to listen to an entire series in order.