Automattic / Automattic/pocket-casts-android
Episode skips forward and marks itself finished without user action.
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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Description
### Description
Similar report to https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/1203.
In 8565790-zen, user reports that a podcast "finished" and moved to the next podcast spontaneously.
See discussion [here ](p1719219610133879-slack-C02A333D8LQ)as well.
### Step-by-step reproduction instructions
Episode was playing in background, middle of episode. No media controls on lock screen.
User is only able to reproduce sporadically, regardless of when the episode is downloaded to the device, or streaming.
User is connected to Pebble Watch, but reports that the most recent incident occurs even while not connected to Watch.
### Screenshots or screen recording
_No response_
### Did you search for existing bug reports?
- [X] I have searched for existing bug reports.
### Device, Operating system, and Pocket Casts app version
App version : 7.68 (9251)
Happens on both Pixel 6 and Samsung A15.
Contributor guide
Research direction
No source files or tests are named. Start by reproducing the background-playback steps on the listed devices and conditions, then compare the related issue and linked Slack discussion; done means an episode no longer skips forward or marks itself finished without user action.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100