I currently use a monthly paid subscription to Runcast which seems to work pretty well as it allows me to subscribe to all my podcast and it has the ability to automatically download the latest and removed the played episodes when it's synced to the network. I listen to Podcast 90% of my runs and this was one of the main reasons why I cancelled my Spotify subscription and signed up to use Runcast a few months back. For the Spotify users who use Podcasts, has there been any improvement in the Spotify Podcast feature that can auto update the played and download the latest podcasts to the watch? I would prefer to switch back to Spotify if that's the case.
No, unfortunately podcasts on Garmin Spotify are still useless, they won’t download when updating or delete old ones, you have to go and download episodes individually one by one and even this doesn’t always work, like The Monkey Cage simply will not download on my Garmin, annoying indeed, I can’t cancel Spotify though.
This is a huge frustration of mine. That and the fact that Spotify content will randomly delete itself from the device, requiring an "update downloads" cycle to get the content playing again. Of course, you only ever find that has happened out just as you're about to start an activity...
I would be sooo nice if podcasts would automatically sync (also how many minutes had been listened to) like the do in the normal app. If this would be an automatic thing the Spotify app would be great. I'd also like to be able to disable "content types" - I often switch during runs and having to navigate to the bottom to find podcasts again and again just takes extra presses each and every time.
I I'd also like to be able to disable "content types" - I often switch during runs and having to navigate to the bottom to find podcasts again and again just takes extra presses each and every time.
You can just press up button at the top of any menu and it brings you directly to the bottom, in this case to Podcasts.
As for the original post I would also love to see selected podcasts to automatically download newest non played episode in the Spotify app. It should not, however, automatically download newest episodes for all podcasts, because if you (like I) subscribe to quite a few of then, that would most likely slow down the update content action drastigally and take up too much storage space in the end.
I guess the app must currently report played content back to Spotify while doing content update so it must hold information about played content and thus it should technically be feasable to deternine which ones you have already listened to. There might still be the issue that if you had listened that episode from your phone or another device, that depending on the Spotify's API the watch might not be able to tell, a minor one, however, if you'd be able to select the podcasts to automatically download.
Also I would love to see that auto delete played podcast feature in a future Spotify update and it should clearly be easier to implement.
