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Episode Playback Fails to Resume on Galaxy Watch
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- Kotlin
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Description
### Description
User reported that some podcast episodes abruptly stop playing on their Galaxy Watch and refuse to resume, even after a day or on a stable connection. Other episodes play normally, but the affected ones remain unplayable. In some cases, skipping back briefly restores playback, but not reliably. Issue recently occurred with three consecutive episodes from the same podcast.
### Step-by-step reproduction instructions
A sample episode to test, shared by the user: https://pca.st/episode/5eefb2fc-4e08-4bc4-b919-88fd7be57e08
### Screenshots or screen recording
Screenshot:
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### Device, Operating system, and Pocket Casts app version
Platform : WearOs
App version : 7.88w (109336)
Phone: samsung - wise6ul - SM-R965F (Watch 6 Classic)
Android version: 14 SDK 34
Logs shared in 9796513-zen
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the sample episode on the listed Galaxy Watch and Wear OS app version, then inspect the shared logs from reference 9796513-zen. Compare affected episodes with normally playing episodes and verify that playback resumes reliably after stopping or skipping back.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100