Has anyone had any oddities playing the Discern Realities podcast using the Google Podcasts app on an Android phone? I know this is a specific tech question that we don’t normally discuss here but I’m posting in case it could be something to do with the way an episode of this podcast has been marked up…
Specifically, I’ve listening through the episodes for the first time (starting at 1 and working upwards). This was fine until I hit around episode 24 which, in my timeline, was when the “Codex Volume 1 Kickstarter Special” episode was released. Ever since then when I start listening to the podcast it jumps to that episode and starts playing it.
Muttering to myself I stop that episode in the app and then select the one I was half way through (say episode 35). Here’s the really weird bit: it then starts playing the “Codex Volume 1…” again but the app tells me it’s playing episode 35 on the UI. It really, really thinks it’s doing it right.
Maybe this is the Google Podcast app being crappy but I haven’t been able to find any reports of that kind of behaviour online so I was wondering if there might be a configuration issue (e.g. some meta-data attached to an episode) that is causing Google Podcasts to get confused.
Anyway, happy to take this offline. I’ll continue trying to dig around the internets for other ideas also. Thanks for making it this far!
I haven’t heard anything about this before. Maybe someone else using that app can chime in.
I haven’t heard anything about this before. Maybe someone else using that app can chime in.
I did not have that specific issue but the I did suffer with the Google Play app for a while. I think the podcast app came later. I remember it was really awful at deciding what to do when headphones were connected or pulled out and what to play when it connected to a Bluetooth speaker. I eventually decided to purchase Pocket Cast and have never regretted it.
I did not have that specific issue but the I did suffer with the Google Play app for a while. I think the podcast app came later. I remember it was really awful at deciding what to do when headphones were connected or pulled out and what to play when it connected to a Bluetooth speaker. I eventually decided to purchase Pocket Cast and have never regretted it.