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jonk13
Contributor I
May 7, 2026 2:31 PM UTC
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Have to clear the queue every time I play podcasts and want to play a new episode

I often listen to podcasts via the Pocket Casts service in Sonos and whenever I’m done with one episode and try to play a new episode, I get a an error. The only way I can listen to a new episode is the completely clear the queue first, and then go choose the new episode.

This happens every time.

I typically listen to a daily Mon-Fri podcast and each day’s episode is comprised of a 5 separate options to choose from in the app (Full show, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part4), so my assumption is that the queue is getting completely filled automatically and then a Sonos app bug is preventing any more things being added to queue, unless there is a setting I’m missing somewhere.

Anyone else experience this? 

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MangoeAnswer
Lyricist III
May 7, 2026 5:26 PM UTC

 

Anyone else experience this? 

FWIW I just tried to replicate the issue and I’m able to change/skip episodes without error. I would contact support  

 

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106rallye
106rallye
May 7, 2026 2:47 PM UTC

What error?

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jonk13Author
Contributor I
May 7, 2026 3:03 PM UTC

It will not play the new episode when I click on it and a small bubble on the bottom says something along the lines of “unable to add music to the queue”

For the record, I am not manually creating the queue. The queue automatically adds ALL previous episodes of the podcasts. 

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MoPac
MoPac
Headliner III
May 7, 2026 4:29 PM UTC

I don’t use Pocket Casts, but I did try a podcast on TuneIn.  When I started the first podcast then looked at the queue there were several episodes loaded.  Next I started a second podcast without first clearing the queue.  The second podcast started playing.  When I looked at the queue the second podcast was now displayed in the queue.  
 

Wonder if the issue you describe is exclusive to Pocket Casts.  If you have another source of podcasts on Sonos try to see if those podcasts behave differently.

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    MangoeAnswer
    Lyricist III
    May 7, 2026 5:26 PM UTC

     

    Anyone else experience this? 

    FWIW I just tried to replicate the issue and I’m able to change/skip episodes without error. I would contact support  

     

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