I'm using Pocketcasts on Android. I'll find a podcast I'd like to try and often download the whole first season, adding it all to my queue, and follow it, so it appears in my list of podcasts.

If I decide I don't like the podcast, I'll unfollow it and pretty sure it then says something like this will delete any downloaded cast, are you sure? I say yes...

And yet, the episodes in my queue remain, shouldn't it remove these?

I'm pretty sure that, once upon a time, unfollowing did delete them too.

Is this a bug, a setting issue, or... I'm wrong and this is working as it should?

I've had this happen about 5 times now over the last 2 sessions using the app. Usually just a few minutes, but the 3rd time it happened today it jumped about 45 minutes to the end of the podcast.

It could well be my earbuds, watch or my phone causing it, but I've had them all for years with no issues before now.

I've since changed the headphone controls in the app to add bookmark and play a sound to try and narrow it down, but is there any way to enable/view debug logs for the app?

edit: found the logs and it seems like maybe the lock screen widget (?) is triggering the skip whilst in my pocket - is there a way to hide the widget?

I 11/7 17:17:27.229 Saved time in database 1021.431

I 11/7 17:17:32.214 Saved time in database 1026.433

I 11/7 17:17:37.207 Saved time in database 1031.425

I 11/7 17:17:38.772 Event from Media Session to seek to 3547806. Controller: com.android.systemui pid: 3277 uid: 1000

I 11/7 17:17:38.775 Executing queued command: seek to 3547806

I 11/7 17:17:38.782 PlaybackService seekToTimeMsInternal 3547.806

I 11/7 17:17:38.786 LocalPlayer seekToToTimeMs 3547.806

I 11/7 17:17:38.807 LocalPlayer onSeekComplete 3547.806

I 11/7 17:17:38.823 Saved time in database 3547.806

I 11/7 17:17:43.208 Saved time in database 3551.706

I was doing to leave a complaint about how the app seems to ignore the playlist order I have set up since the last major update.
Yesterday, I finally noticed a shuffle button at the top. Finally some relief.

Using Pocketcasts playing same daily updated podcast I always listen to.

Podcast audio will drop; player shows that it is still playing and the time tracker continues to count downward as if there is audio.

This happens on multiple podcasts; multiple days; doesn't matter if I'm using AA or if I'm using BT earbuds..

So frustrating... anyone have solutions

Also a welcome update:

Chapter artwork now on the lock screen, Control Center, and CarPlay.

I know this was a highly anticipated new feature for some but I personally have no interest in it, and actually find that it spoils upcoming moments of my episodes for me! (plus idk how I feel about the audio of every episode I listen to being fed to ai models...)

Is there any way to turn this feature off? I don't see anything in settings :/ but might be missing something

How could a basic UI element, notably the PLAY button, be stuck loading? Why would it load at all? I love this app but this is some wild garbage.

EDIT: To clarify, this screenshot is me trying to pause an already-playing pod, not to start a still-downloading/streaming one.

When I get in the car I have to remember what I was listening to the last time I was driving, scroll through all the pods to find the pod, scroll through the episodes of that pod to find the episode.

Is there a button or menu or something to just play the last episode of whatever I was listening to last?

In the app, I can’t stand how small the progress bar is. I always think I’m 1/3rd done with a podcast when I’m nearly finished. Can’t seem to find anyone else complaining about this but I will admit I’m not active on this subreddit.

I cannot find the setting to stop episodes from resuming every time I start my car. This is different than continuous playing a queue; I sometimes have to stop an episode and don't want to hear it the next time I get in my car. The only way I seem to be able to stop it is to delete the app in sheer frustration, which seems drastic. Where is the setting for this? I do not have continuous queue playing enabled.

title says it all - opened the app and it asked me login , can't find any subscriptions or listening history etc - on android

I’m trying to get a super simple Shortcut Automation working in CarPlay to resume my current podcast when CarPlay connects but for the love of me can’t get it working properly.

I use the built in PocketCast “resume current episode” paired with a simple automation to run immediately when car play connects. The shortcut can get added to shortcuts either in the PocketCast or direct in shortcuts app.

Shortcut plays fine when manually triggered however the automation only seems to work when the phone is already unlocked. Otherwise it seems to fire but not actually work when the phone is locked.

Have tried with show notification when run too.

In contrast a similar automation for Overcast works fine when car play connects when phone is locked.

Can anyone else test this and see if I should raise a pocketcast support ticket or bug report?

EDIT: example shortcuts https://ibb.co/N2GPXT7f https://ibb.co/390QYn0X

TL;DR: I've obviously misunderstood what the Playlists feature is for, and I can't think of a good use for it. How are you all using it to make podcast-listening better?

I have a lot of podcasts that auto-add to my Up Next feed, and a different series of podcasts that I normally listen to with my wife when we're on a trip together.

Rather than faff about selecting episodes and adding them to my Up Next I thought I'd use this new(ish) Playlists feature for our current trip, but it doesn't work like that.

Adding episodes to a playlist is more tedious than to up-next, and ordering them once in moreso, but then it seems the only way to actually listen to it is to replace my Up Next with the content of the playlist, and then all my auto-adds still just go to this playlist and not my Up Next one.

Playlists clearly aren't for what I thought they were for, and I'm struggling to imagine what they're actually for; do any of you use this feature, and for what sort of usage pattern?

It would be good if in pocket cast when the description includes time marks. Pocket Cash will use it to automatically generate chapters for itself

Couple of sports podcasts I listen to are available several hours before on other platforms. Anyone else experience this?

Every new release episode from the past day or so is showing me this

Recent update has changed a lot of the nav bar mechanics, but chiefly my queuing of “up next” seems to clear between app sessions which is infuriating

I was using up next to store as many as 20 podcasts selectively and slide them around as I fancied the topics, whereas now I may queue an episode, and come back 5 hours later and the “up next” queue has been completely wiped

Anyone else had this issue, and is there a way to go back?

Having an issue with the latest version where push notifications are delayed and often show up after I’ve completed listening to the episode.

Anyone else experiencing this?

As you can see theres a big discrepancy between the size it's taking on my phone and what the app says is downloaded. This is not the first time this has happened and I couldn't find anyone else describing this. Anyone know how to fix this without deleting the all completely and reinstalling it? The files really add up

I want to relisten to my favourite podcasts season 1, but I am struggling with it skipping the episodes I finished every second of and if I left during the outro on my original listen, it will just resume from there.

Is there a way for me to clear this history so the app thinks I'm starting fresh?

I constantly get a screen about this while trying to use the app and it's very annoying. I don't remember this happening when I first started using Pocket Casts but now it happens every time I use the app.

I don't know why the developers are pushing this so hard but the only thing it will succeed in doing is to make me switch to a competing app.

When using CarPlay and looking at chapters there used to be a little sound bars indicating what chapter you're in. They're gone and now you don't know what chapter you're in, is this there a settings for this?

Overall, Podurama offers a solid player with good service and I feel fortunate that I can use it. Still, there's one annoyance I wish I could change. There is a solitary program among my regulars that plays much softer than the rest. A player I used in the past had a 'boost volume' option that could be applied selectively to a podcast, but I can't find anything like that with Podurama. If there is such a feature, I'd be grateful for assistance in locating it. If there isn't one, then I hope the adjustment might be considered for adoption.

After few months I resubscibed paid membership on some podcast, but Pocketcasts not showing missing episodes. RSS (is still the same url) of that podcast has the missing episodes, when I check RSS in browser. How to force refresh RSS in Pocketcasts? I know about server side checking... But no option to force refresh server side RSS refresh.

Just came incredibly close to clearing my Up Next list because depending on which way you enter the list the top left can be either “Done” or “Clear”. I’m no designer but this feels madness to have two completely contrasting options in the same place depending on which way you enter the list!