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Spotify podcast does not sync with Forerunner 245

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I purchased new Forerunner 245 (29/05/2020). I installed Garmin express and add Spotify. I synced with Forerunner and added music from the Spotify playlist. However, not all my podcasts are visible on the Forerunner and I could not add my podcasts - please tell me what is wrong?

  • I saw somewhere here in Garmin Forums that Podcast hosted outside Spotify will not sync. One example I tried "This American Life". I read the BBC ones won't sync either. 

  • And fixing this is up to Spotify.

  • Just ran across this problem today... I added an episode of "This American Life" to a Spotify playlist, then loaded the playlist to my Garmin Forerunner 245.  It was a silent fail (the playlist loaded, but the podcast was simply missing).  I tried again with a new playlist consisting solely of 1 episode of "This American Life".  The sync to my Forerunner appeared to succeed, but then the playlist was simply missing from my watch altogether (another silent fail).  Took me awhile to figure out the root cause!  Sorry to see we still can't sync certain podcasts to the Forerunner three years after this original problem report.