Plan

Premium with Free Hulu

Country

USA

Device

Google Pixel 3a XL

Operating System

Android 11

My Question or Issue

This has been going on for a few months.  Whenever I'm listening to the android app of Spotify, there have been many moments where the sound will just suddenly cut out.  It's not muted, volume hasn't changed at all, and yet the timer keeps going.  This cut out lasts anywhere between 5 to 15 seconds and then the audio comes back, but it doesn't come back to the point where it cut out, all those muted seconds get missed.  So I find myself hitting the back button to go back a few seconds to try and catch those missed moments again, but most of the time, the audio cuts out again and it takes about 5 or more go backs before the audio finally decides to cooperate.  Again, this issue began when I first started listening to podcasts a few months ago, but it's present during normal songs as well on the app.  I currently am using Google Podcasts to listen to my shows, but I would like to keep using Spotify.

I doubt that this is any kind of connectivity or buffering issue since I always download my podcasts onto my device, yet the issue is still there.