Played podcast episodes playing, not unplayed

[#1]

Why is Spotify playing podcast episodes that I have listened to and are marked as played, instead of moving the next chronological unplayed episode? I've had this happen on multiple podcasts, one episode will finish, and then instead of going to the next unplayed episode, it will just start up either the next episode which was already played, so simply jump to another played episode. I've had this happen on both iOS and PC platforms. Not sure what category to put this in, so I'm sticking it here and hope to get some help.

[Ivelina]

Hey there,

Welcome to the Community and thanks for posting!

If you haven't already I recommend filtering the episodes to Unplayed and changing the sorting between Newest/Oldest to test if that would make any difference. You can do this both on iOS and in the desktop app.

After you've made this change, log out > log back in twice in a row which will help re-sync your account and the device you're using.

Additionally it's always a good idea to keep Spotify up-to-date.

Keep us posted 🙂

[nonopenonever]

Plan

Premium

Operating System

Android 13

My Question or Issue

When I start playing a podcast, the queue for 'next episode to play' is messed up.  I have various podcasts that I'm 50, 80, 100 episodes into, with those episodes all showing the little green 'completed' checkmark.  When I start playing the next episode I haven't heard, it plays, but then the queue of upcoming episodes is incorrect and contains between 10 and 20 previous episodes that I've already heard; so once I finish the oldest uncompleted episode, I get bumped back 20 episodes and something I've already completed starts playing.  The episodes in the queue are in the correct order, but they do not belong in the queue, as I have already listened to them.  If I remove those episodes from the queue, then what remains in queue plays correctly, going on to the next sequential episode that I have not heard.  However, every time I switch away from that given podcast, to listen to something else, and then come back, the queue for that podcast is messed up AGAIN and contains the same 10-20 episodes that I have already heard and I have to remove them from the queue yet again.

This started suddenly about 2 weeks ago.

[_44z2p2i4-g3t]

Thanks for posting thins. What a senseless and annoying behavior. Adding already listened episodes to an automatic play list (or adding episodes at all, since there's no reason to believe that listening to *past* episodes should be a default behavior). This issue needs to be urgently removed, or at least get an adequate workaround.