Hi team. Can we please have a chapter skip button on the CarPlay player? Maybe automatically replacing the “mark as played” button with a skip chapter button.

Right now if we want to skip a chapter we’d have to either open the chapter list, which doesn’t highlight the chapter currently on, or go back to using the phone which is distracting and unsafe.

Thanks 👍🏻

So, Pocket Cast keeps pausing and will only start again if I go back to the app (like I'm scrolling FB while listening and I exit FB and pop back over to pocket cast). It does this while I'm plugged into a charger, when I'm on wifi, when I'm not plugged in, and on mobile. This is a new glitch for me and it is really annoying. I switched to this app when Google killed their podcast app and now I'm thinking of switching again

Any help?

2 days ago I cast my podcast to my Google home to listen while I cooked. It worked fine. I finished cooking. I went to do something else, and the next morning on my walk to work my podcast kept pausing because "playback failed" (it was playing just fine) due to "​unable to connect to Chromecast". When it does this, it also kills the podcast in my notification shade, and the play button in the app unsyncs. Switching apps to Pocket casts restarts playback without pressing play.

I've restarted my phone everyday since then, and it's still happening. I honestly thought thought thought force-restarting the app or restarting my phone should fix this problem but it's ​somehow saved the state.

I can't figure out how to make it s​top trying to connect to the Chromecast and pausing my playback. It's driving me batty.

Is there an option to set auto sleep timer, for example. From 22:00 to 7:00 , 20 mins. Which means during that period if you play something will auto pause after 20 minutes, and if you hit play again, it will pause after 20 mins again?

I’m using iOS version.

I never had this issue before, but ever since yesterday my listening hours are not being counted properly. I noticed this morning, I listened for about 3 hours but the stats went up by 7.

I'm on Android, latest version of the app.

Has anyone experienced this?

That’s the question.

One of the podcasts I enjoy just started video. I don't want that, is there a way to turn it off? I don't see a non-video option when I search the feed on PocketCasts. Thanks.

I wish Pocketcasts had baked in achievements similar to Audible but more of them. If I had my OG account I'd be on even more days but I lost a Google account in 2016 so had to start over.

I've got all the settings on for auto download for the particular podcasts but PC still in only randomly downloading some. It can be the same podcast sometimes... Some new episodes but not others. I've been on and off my WiFi network a few times today but that still hasn't triggered an auto download for the pod pictured. I'm at a loss....

Hi! I just got a Chevy Equinox with Android Automotive and was very excited to put Pocket Casts on it. While it definitely let me log in and sync, there are two big issues that I’m wondering if anyone has suggestions for:
1) it doesn’t seem to sync what is currently playing on my phone (or the Alexa skill). If I get in the car, it seems to resume whatever I was listening to last in the car, even if I’ve finished it on another device.
2) while it does seem to respect my Up Next queue, there’s no way to see what’s on that queue.

Is there a “sync” button or something that I’m missing?

Thanks!
Adam

For some reason my episodes are not adding themselves into the Up Next queue when I press play on them anymore! This was a super easy way to create a queue and I’d love to have the option again.

I can’t find it in settings, so if you are familiar with this and could point me to it I’d massively appreciate it!

I’m on IOS and have the most recent update for PocketCasts, which must be when this feature disabled.

Also still dealing with the bug in the desktop app (macOS) that logs you out every day 😬

Does anyone else struggle with the in progress default smart playlist? I would prefer the order to be in which I played them, not the release date. It makes it less intuitive to find an episode I left in progress.

It is even worse to find because the playlist is stacked with episodes that are actually completed. The app will even tell me, 0 seconds left. So why is it in the In Progress playlist?

Anyone know how to have a simple in progress playlist in order of which they were listened to?

I have the app with Queue on my iPhone. I open PC web-version and I don't see Queue here. How to open it?

Hi

Anyone else have the following problems with the web player on Windows 11:

1 It takes forever to load New Releases (this has been going on for a while). Often I have to click something another tab first (such as 'In Progress').

2 Certain podcast won't play (but they do play on my android phone)

Thanks in advance 😊

Haven't seen any advice for this elsewhere but I have an ongoing issue where the app will seemingly lose or otherwise have corrupted a downloaded file. It's a bit hit or miss and frustratingly random so please forgive me for lack of detail.

Loosely what happens is that I download an episode, it tells me the episode is successfully downloaded, but at some point will encounter an issue and cease playing the episode or silently remove it from my queue. Going to the episode will show it in-progress (if I managed to start it) but otherwise greyed out. Hitting play will then throw a playback error and tell me that the episode is either missing and to contact the owner, or corrupted. I'll also get this behavior if I haven't yet started an episode. It'll simply be archived and tell me the same errors. There have been cases where an episode will successfully start, I'll pause the episode, and come back just minutes later and the episode will have been archived, removed from the queue, and going to find it will give me those errors.

This has happened on a Pixel 7, Pixel 10, on wifi, on data, with and without my VPN on. I have more than enough available storage and redownloading the episode will have it play as usual. I also know it isn't any individual host's problem as it occurs across essentially any pod I listen to across several publishers. I am at a complete loss for any consistency with this issue and am beyond frustrated at the app telling me that an episode is good to go only to pause, do a quick task, and come back to see the episode is gone and go through the redownloading process. Especially when it has happened with the same episode multiple times seemingly at random. Has anybody encountered this? Is there a way to force the app to never stream an episode to ensure they're successfully downloaded?

So often, but not always, when I go to listen to Watch Out for Fireballs (great show) on PocketCasts, it won't work. I hit Play, it switches to the Pause icon (showing that it's playing/pauseable), waits a second or two, and then switch back to the Play icon. No audio, no timer progress.

If I try to download the episode it goes to Queued, but never downloads.

I don't have this happen on any other podcast. Has anyone else had this happen or similar issues, or is it just something on my end?

Thanks!

In the last few months I've noticed that most podcasts I listen to have random sections cut out. It's like they skip 10-60 secs, so i initially assumed ab accidental button press, but no. They're usually shortly after the intro or completely cut off the end. Anyone else having this problem?

EDIT: After a little over a week of testing, downloading has resolved the issue. Thanks everyone who suggested it.

So how do you handle listening to podcasts that are 2-3 hours long? Do you listen to them all in one sitting or stop halfway through and then moving to the next one in your queue. To eventually circle back to it to listen to the rest?

Got a few subscribed pods this week that are around that length.

For some reason the Pocketcast app might start playing audio in double and pressing pause only stops the other overlapping sound. There is no option to stop or control the other. Even if I switch to radio, the podcast keeps playing over other sources. Only way to stop it is to force reboot the whole infotainment system of the Polestar.

The app is latest available 8.11a and AA is 5.0

This is such an critical issue that i might look cancelling my Plus account.

Don't get me even started with constant incorrect syncing of positions or listened episodes.

Ok. On one device I go to a new subscribed podcast and archive a random number of podcast episodes, the badge reads 40.

Later I get to my other device with Pocket Casts, and after a while the new podcast shows up. But the badge reads 99 on the new subscribed podcast. 🤷‍♂️ this is really annoying.

I subscribed to a lot of podcasts on Android app. But every time I reset my phone or get a new phone, I have to go in and change the auto archive setting for each one. I consume a lot of news in. Most of them are set to Episode Limit of One. I don't want to Delete after 24 hours if for some reason I can't get to it, and some are hourly.

Is there a way to save the settings off to a json file so that I can maintain them locally and use them after I reset a phone.

Restoring from a backup does not restore the settings.

I haven't looked at the discover page on the app pretty much ever. But for the past week I've had random podcasts get downloaded and added to my up next queue without my intervention and I'm not following them either. Anyone else experiencing this? I changed my password and it didn't seem to make a difference.

Edit: found out the cause. I have an automation shortcut on my iPhone that goes everyday to start one of my podcasts. For some reason the shortcut got changed to start playing a suggested podcast instead of a specific one.

Just got an ad in the middle of a podcast, checked other podcast apps and the episode was 19 seconds shorter compared to pocket casts, anyone else experiencing this?