Plan

Free

Country

Canada

Device

Pixel 3a

Operating System

Android 11

My Question or Issue

I'm trying to figure out how to play podcast episodes I select in chronological order.  This seems like very basic podcast listening use case, but I haven't figured out a way to do this on Spotify.  With other apps, I'd go through the episode list, download the ones that interest me and they'd get played back, oldest to newest and then deleted afterwards.  I can't find any way to do this in Spotify.  Here's what I've tried.

1.  Downloading episodes I wish to listen to.  After an episode completes, Spotify will play the next episode from the full episode list of the podcast, not the one I've downloaded.  Ok, so maybe I need a play list.

2. I then added all episodes I downloaded to a playlist.  The oldest episode appears at the bottom of the playlist, so I hit play on it.  But once it finishes playing, it doesn't go to the next episode in my playlist.  Instead, it goes to the next episode from the full episode list of the podcast.

So does everyone who uses Spotify listen to EVERY episode of a podcast?  Does no one pick and choose episodes that sound interesting to them?  This is such a simple feature I'm sure there must be a way, but really can't find it.

I've also been unable to find where to auto delete a download after listening.  This is another core podcast app feature that I haven't been able to find, which means I have to go in and manually clean up my downloads after every episode finishes.