Apple

Hello hive mind.

I listen to podcasts when I’m in the car commuting, as I’m sure a lot of people do. I subscribe to podcasts I like and then play the ‘New Episodes’ list, which generally works ok. Or I create a playlist for ‘Pods this week’ and try to order them on that in a playlist of when I want to hear them.

However, sometimes there is a podcast I just don’t want to listen to - although I like all the streams in general, sometimes there is a topic that is just not interesting to me, or, as was the case this morning, was about all sorts of operations and blood and injuries and things, and being very squeamish, I found it unpleasant to listen to.

However, in all the apps I’ve tried you cannot skip an episode - they all just ping it on a few seconds. This is annoying if it’s an hour long pod and you realise 10 minutes in that it’s not for you, and you’re driving, so you can’t remove it from the list or anything. It’s happened a few times recently, and I’ve ended up just driving in silence, which is dull!

So, are there any apps I can use that will allow me to skip an entire episode? (I realise the lack of it is to do with listening to the adverts, but I’d be happy for ‘Skip’ to play some adverts as long as it skipped afterwards, if that is possible?)

Thanks.

EDIT - I’m using Spotify at the moment.