Podcast navigation changed

[clarab13]

I listen to a podcast that has nearly 250 episodes and many seasons. I am caught up on the latest season, and now I want to listen to one of the middle seasons.

On the Android app, it used to be that when you open a specific podcast episode and pick "Go to podcast", it would show you that exact episode within the list of podcast episodes. As if it opened the list of episodes and scrolled to that one you were just listening to.

In the past couple months, this has now changed, so when you click "Go to podcast", it always brings you to the main page of the podcast and showing you the most recent episodes. To find the episodes I want, I have to scroll down very very far. The option to change the sorting from Oldest to Newest does not help, because I am listening to the very middle season of this podcast. The only way I can find the specific episodes I want without scrolling forever is by searching the exact episode numbers one-by-one, which is very tedious and inconvenient.

(This feature is also not available on desktop, though I'm not sure if it was available before. The entire desktop app has always been extremely confusing to navigate...)

Was this an intentional change? Is there any change they'll change it back? Is there some other way to jump to a specific episode within the episode list that I haven't found yet?

[AlejaR · Accepted solution]

Hey there @clarab13,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

We can confirm that is expected behavior that the option Go to podcast takes you to the main page/top of the podcast. There's another option: Go to episode and that one takes you to the current episode playing.

When tapping Go to podcast from the three-dot menu of an episode, it shows you the podcast page from the top instead of the location of the episode you're listening to.

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[spfyposter]

Hi, just wanted to point out that this is inaccurate. On my version of the app, clicking the "go to podcast" option on an episode still takes you to that episode's location in the podcast's playlist. The "Go to episode" option just takes you to the page for that specific episode, which just has a brief episode summary,  a "play" button, and a "see all episodes" button. Clicking see all episodes then takes you to the actual playlist.