Plan
Premium
Country
UK
Device
Consistent across MacOS 14.6.1, Android 14, and reproducible at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-a-shows-episodes
Operating System
MacOS 14.6.1, Android 14, and the API
My Question or Issue
I have had a nodejs script which, when executed, gets a list of episodes of a podcast, finds the oldest episode I haven't finished listening to yet, and then resumes playback of it on a device. This has been working perfectly for months, but the last few days it's been playing the same episode every time.
I had a chance to look at the issue today, and found that the API (for example: https://api.spotify.com/v1/shows/4pqW0HTIeZcx7vqHpwzmZj/episodes?market=UK&limit=50&offset=200) does not show the same resume point as the official clients on MacOS nor Android - where those devices see the episode as played, the API sees it "fully_played": false. This is repeatable at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-a-shows-episodes, even after marking an episode as unplayed and then marking it as played again.
Attached is a screenshot of the MacOS desktop client and the same show in the API reference showing different playback states for episode 350 of No Such Thing As A Fish.
Interestingly, open.spotify.com shows a completely different set of played states, also attached.
Finally, I have tried this with another podcast (2dXkTgfC5mECruaLFUERe1), which shows the same behavior. Attached is a screenshot of all 3 (open.spotify.com, MacOS Desktop, and API reference), all showing completely different playback states. The Android app also shows a different set of playback states to the other three.
