For the last two weeks I have been using the Spotify app to sync and play podcasts that are about an hour long. It is not going very well.
Whenever I attempt to resume an episode, it starts from the beginning. This is even though the episode says I have "X minutes remaining" right before I click on it to resume. I also often get a "connecting to headphones" screen before the podcast starts.
This is frustrating for two reasons:
- My workouts are always less than an hour, so virtual everyday I am unable to resume a podcast from where I left off.
- The Spotify interface is unusable for skipping forward to where I left off. The only interface method is the "15 seconds forward" button, and every press of this button takes 2-3 seconds to register. So it would take 6-9 minutes of button pressing to skip forward to the 45 minute point of a podcast.
Last week I was very determined and did spend 5 minutes pressing the watch button to resume my podcast. I am not doing that again. I think I'd rather watch grass grow. Or get 5 more minutes of a workout in.
Some other details:
- Phone is 645 Music
- I am using the 1.3.21 version of the spotify app.
- Garmin software is 6.50 (b23b9d3).
- Podcast I have been playing is Literature and History by Doug Metzger.
- Bluetooth headphones are AfterShokz Aeropex.
- I have at least 5 episodes synced to the device at a time.