Hello all,

I would like to add to this topic, as I'm facing a very similar problem, but with Google devices, instead of Amazon devices, and my podcasts are playing at 2x speed (instead of slower speeds).

It happens on ALL my Google Chromecasts, Google Home Mini speakers, and JBL ("works with Google") Speakers. It happens whether I talk to my speakers asking them to play a podcast, of if I start playing from my iPhone and then start casting to those devices. If I cast from iPhone, it doesn't matter what speed I set on the iPhone, when it starts playing at the Google device, it immediately switches to 2x and greys out (meaning I can't adjust it while playing on the external device). If I talk to my speakers asking them to play at regular speed, they say they don't support that command.

We all know that for now Spotify doesn't support adjusting playback speed when casting to external devices, but at least it should default to 1x obviously, as expected. But recenlty Spotify started showing this behaviour of defaulting to 2x on my Google devices, and I can't do anything about it. I just can't listen to podcasts on my google devices anymore (unless it's at 2x).

Tried unlinking my Spotify account from my Google Home, and re-linking, but no effect whatsoever. Like I said before, even If I start casting from my iPhone (which doesn't require google accessing my Spotify account), the problem occurs.

That is clearly a bug on the SPOTIFY side of things, as it happens on both Amazon and Google devices, as we can see.

Referring to this thread: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/Podcast-playback-speed-for-certain-show... 

Spotify, please just... fix... this ! ASAP!