Issues removing episodes of "Your Episodes" playlist

[Jeremy]

Hi folks,

We've been getting reports that users been having issues with removing episodes of "Your Episodes" playlist.

If you experience this, could you provide us with the following info:

• device + OS version
• exact Spotify version

Once we have that, we will pass it on to the relevant team, who will look further into it.

Thanks!

[dan_72]

Plan

Premium

Country

France

Device

Huawei P30 Pro

Operating System

Android 10

My Question or Issue

I want to remove some episodes from "your episodes" playlist and that's a very weird user experience.

When I remove a podcast episode from the "your episodes" playlist I am redirected to the "Add to playlist" view. That's very confusing and an ugly navigation bug.

Try it:

- tap "your library"
- tap the "your episodes" playlist
- find the episode to remove
- tap the green checkmark (see screenshot) to remove the episode
- look at the top of the screen and from there you can do weird stuff, like adding the episode to another playlist, etc...

Removing multiple episodes from the "your episodes" playlist should be as simple as tap, tap, tap on the green checkmarks and the app should stay in the "your episodes" list view and update it.

[Alex]

Hey @dan_72,

Thanks for the post.

We tried reproducing this on Android, but the app stayed in Your Episodes.

Can you record a video and share it here, so we can have a look at what's happening at your end?

Cheers.

[dan_72]

Hey Alex,

Thanks for your interest in my problem, here is a video recording where I:

- tap my library

- scroll to Your Episodes and tap

- scroll to a podcast episode and tap the green checkmark

- the view is now for "adding to a playlist"

- I select the 2021 playlist

- a pop up say "Added to 2021" 

- I'm back in the "your episodes" view, so I go back to the library

- tap the 2021 playlist

- and there it is ,the podcast episode I wanted to remove from the "your episodes" playlist is there.

I've done a clean reinstall of spotify before trying all this. May be that's an i8n issue only on the french version of the app ?

Thanks,

Daniel

[dan_72]

Hi All,

I have this problem with :

spotify : 8.6.64.1081
phone : huawei p30 pro
os : Emui 11.0.0.159 android 10

HTH,

Daniel

[Xenia]

Thanks for reporting this issue to us!

At the moment, this is being investigated. We'll let you know when this is resolved here in this thread.

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Cheers!

[Ver]

Hey folks,

Thanks for your patience while we looked into this.

We can now confirm that this is an expected behavior.

To continue removing the episode, you can tap on the green check while you're in the "Add to Playlist" popup. 

When you use the desktop app, the episode should be removed right away after clicking on the green check.

Hope this clears things up. If you need anything else, the Community is here for you.

[dan_72]

Hey Ver,

Thank you very much for your reply.

I'm very surprised that it is an expected behaviour may be there is something I don't understand.

What should a user expect when tapping on the checkmark that is under the episode title in the "your episodes" playlist ? (see screenshot)

Thanks,

Daniel

[Ver]

Hey @dan_72,

Thanks for getting back to us 🙂

When you click on the green checkmark, you will see the "Add to Playlist" popup. Then you can click again on the green checkmark next to Your Episodes. That way you can remove an episode from the playlist.

Hope this clears things up. The Community is here for you if you have questions or need help.

[dan_72]

Hey Ver,

Thanks for your answer 🙂 

There is still a glitch (bug?) When I do what you told me, the episode is not removed from the view, I have to quit and come back to refresh the playlist view.

Many Thanks,

Daniel

[MafeG]

Hi @dan_72,

Thank you for keeping us in the loop.

When removing an episode with the check-mark icon, it's necessary to exit the playlist and enter again so the changes are reflected.

However, if you tap on the 3 dots next to the "share" icon, you can select the option to remove from Your Episodes, the episode should disappear right away. 

Let us know how this goes.

[dan_72]

Hi,

Thanks for your fast reply. Yes, that works, I will do this even though
that's still painful when I need to remove a bunch of podcasts that I don't
want to listen anymore.

Anyway thank you very much to all you guys for making this community so
cool.

Daniel

[MafeG]

Hi @dan_72,

Thank you for your reply!

We're glad to know it worked for you. We also appreciate your feedback, as we always strive to improve Spotify and its Community every time. 

We'll be around if you need anything else.

[BensinTTK]

How do I remove all recommended for you episodes I also get weird things up likes**bleep** that annoys me too much im getting mad 

[NWsptfyyy]

Samsung A9 5G

Android 12

Spotify 8.9.4.304

[NWsptfyyy]

Version details above. The "remove episode" option is no longer showing when i click the 3 dots.

When i click the green tick instead the new menu offers me to add the episode to more playlista instead of removing it.

[MihailY]

Hey @NWsptfyyy,

Thanks for reaching out and providing those details.

Can you please also send us a screenshot of how the menu looks on your end? We've tested this with the same app version and the remove option is still present.

Cheers,

[NWsptfyyy]

 Thanks for getting back so quickly. I have attached a screenshot of an episode in Your Episodes that i want to remove, but the option is no longer there... My Your Epiosdes list is now quite long because i cannot remove the episodes anymore.

[Susan_GP]

Hi @NWsptfyyy,

Thanks for your prompt reply and the screenshot.

The option to remove the episode doesn't come up when clicking on the 3 dot menu from the Now Playing View. However, it does when clicking on the 3 dot menu from the list of episodes. Give it a go to check if you see the option to remove the episodes from there. Here are some reference pics. 

Don't go to the context menu from here:

Go to the context menu from here: 

Additionally, when pressing the green check, the app will give you the option to Add to playlist. However, you can also simply uncheck the episode from the playlist that's already in and click Done. That way it won't have the green check anymore and it will be removed from Your Episodes: 

Let us know how that goes.