[Podcasts][Desktop] Mass Apply | Mark as Played

[ALaLonde]

As someone who is moving to Spotify as my only audio streaming service. I was wondering if there is an option to Mass apply the "mark as played" flag. I am doing it manually while waiting at the moment.

I switched to Spotify only to consolidate Google Podcasts and YouTube Music into a single platform that I was already paying for. That being said, I have been using Google podcasts for about 5 years and have a lot of episodes that I may have already heard or are not relevant to my queue of daily podcasts. My current issue is podcasts by the same show are being added to my queue that were published back in 2016 or 2018.

This feature would make it easy for a user such as myself to mark all episodes before X date as already played. Thus keeping them out of the recommendations and the "Next up" field.

This brings up a different way to solve this issue. Can we just get rid of "Next up" feature while listening to podcasts as it contains items that are not in the Queue?

[Vasil]

Hey @ALaLonde,

We moved your post out of Ideas as the described feature is already available; hope you don't mind 🙂

1. On mobile, open a podcast and scroll up.
2. Click on the Settings wheel.
3. Under Manage, select Mark as Played.
4. Mark all and deselect any unplayed episodes 🙂 

Hope this helps!

[Zickan]

Why cant we have that settings wheel on pc? It makes literally no sense that we can mask multiple episodes as played/unplayed on the phone but not on the pc-app

[#4]

I have a long list of items in my playlist marked as next in queue that I cannot clear or remove but by marking as played one by one.

How can I remove them all or mark all as played.