Spotify Keeps Restarting Podcasts? Here's How To Fix The Annoying Bug

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Spotify can be a great app for listening to podcasts — except when podcasts keep restarting in the middle of listening to them. For years and years, Spotify was the biggest music streaming service. And that was it. It was a one-stop destination for new albums, your favorite artists, personalized playlists, etc.

But that changed a little under four years ago. After testing podcasts with select users in 2017, Spotify opened its podcast publishing service to everyone in October 2018. Since then, Spotify has also become one of the largest podcast apps on the market. From world-renowned shows like This American Life and Stuff You Should Know to Spotify's own original podcasts, there's a seemingly endless library of podcasts to listen to. The best part? Anyone can listen to podcasts on Spotify entirely for free — no Spotify Premium subscription required.

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While Spotify's podcast experience is great when it works, it's also incredibly frustrating when things go wrong. One of the most common (and irritating) issues for many Spotify users is when podcasts randomly restart. A quick search online reveals numerous complaints on Reddit and the Spotify Community forums with this exact issue. Spotify user been_jammin says, «If I am in the middle of a podcast and an ad starts playing, the podcast will restart at the beginning once the ad is complete.» User lord_oxium reports a nearly identical issue, writing, «Not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but when an ad comes up during a podcast, skipping it will sometimes restart the podcast episode.» 

If you've encountered the restarting podcast issue and aren't sure what to do, there are a few ways to go about