# Playback speed doesn't follow episodes
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612
**Category:** Bug report
**Created:** [May 30, 2026, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612 "2026-05-30T06:30:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Jimx](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Jimx)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2026, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/1 "2026-05-30T06:30:11Z")
## Environment
Android version: 13
OS version: 4.14.276-g6ef255005cea-ab9062920
AntennaPod version: 3.12.0-beta2
Model: Pixel 4 XL
Device: coral
Product: coral
Manufacturer: Google
**App version** : x.y.z
**Android version** : 5.x (Please mention if you are using a custom rom!)
**Device model** :
**Expected behaviour** :
**Current behaviour** :
**First occurred** : (e.g. about x days/weeks ago)
**Steps to reproduce** :
1. Have two episodes with two different base playback speeds (not 1x speed)
2. Play the second episode
3. In the queue, drag that episode to the top so the first episode in the queue would play next
4. When the episode stops, the next episode (that was in the queue in front, originally) starts, playing at 1x, not the original specified speed
**Environment** : (Settings you have changed (e.g. Auto Download). “Unusual” devices you use (e.g. Bluetooth headphones).)
**Crash info** :
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### Author:  [@DMarzal](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/DMarzal)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2026, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/2 "2026-06-09T07:06:12Z")
**App version** : 3.12.0-beta3 (1d8f35402)
**Android version** : 14 Stock MagicOS 8.0
**Device model** : RBN-NX1
**Expected behaviour** : Per-podcast speed honored
**Current behaviour** : No change when episode plays
**First occurred** : a day ago after updating to the new beta
**Steps to reproduce** :
Play any podcast with a custom play speed, and the speed doesn’t change.
So in my case I have 1.75x as a global default, and this speed doesn’t change on any English podcast that I have configured on other speed.
Also on the podcast configuration, the speed it’s not shown until I press + or -. Setting the per-podcast speed doesn’t help.
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### Author:  [@gomezz](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/gomezz)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2026, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/3 "2026-06-09T10:08:18Z")
Do issues with Beta testing not have their own reporting process?
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### Author:  [@Rainmanne](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Rainmanne)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2026, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/4 "2026-06-19T07:19:01Z")
## Environment
Android version: 16
OS version: 6.1.145-android14-11-gfa1d6308d1fe-ab14691759
AntennaPod version: 3.12.0-beta3
Model: Pixel 7 Pro
Device: cheetah
Product: cheetah
Manufacturer: Google
Pretty much the same problem. I have the global speed set to 1.40x and some podcasts where the speed is set to lower numbers. However, the global speed override doesn’t work. After playing an episode at the global speed, it doesn’t switch to a different speed if it’s set for the next episode.
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### Author:  [@Jimx](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Jimx)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/5 "2026-06-19T22:23:19Z")
Maybe related: I was listening to a podcast, and didn’t want to finish it. I hit play on a podcast two items before. When it got back to the third podcast, rather than resuming from the time I stopped, it started over again.
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### Author:  [@Matth78](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Matth78)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/6 "2026-06-20T05:43:44Z")
I believe something is wrong when triggering action on episode start / resume. I guess AntennaPod do what it’s needed but for some reasons command to change speed skip intro, or to resume from where you left fails. (For skipping intro tooltip is displayed correctly but it does nothing)
Relevant issue is this one : [issue 8468](https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/8468). Hope it will be fixed. 🤞
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### Author:  [@Rainmanne](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Rainmanne)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2026, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/7 "2026-06-20T07:29:56Z")
Yes, got it as well. Partially played episodes start over rather than resume.
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2026, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/8 "2026-06-24T04:52:09Z")
For anyone in this thread who experiences the problem in **beta-3** , please have a look at this post _and ByteHamster’s reply_ (click on the link to see it).
> [@3.12.0-beta - Bugs in playback service rewrite](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/3-12-0-beta-bugs-in-playback-service-rewrite/8588/23):
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> I’ll add here that per feed playback speed settings are also not being honored. Instead, only the global default playback speed is used. Additionally, playback control from the widget seems unresponsive most of the time. Finally, I’ve noticed that on playback pause and resume (as a result of a notification sound from Android, etc.) has a much more noticeable “rewind” where maybe half of a second of audio is replayed on resume.
If anyone can provide what he’s asking for there, it’s more likely to get fixed 🙂
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### Author:  [@richardeid](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/richardeid)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/10 "2026-06-27T14:29:57Z")
I can narrate what the screen recording would look like.
My global playback speed is 1.5 but I have a handful of podcasts set to play at 1.0 speed. I start a podcast that is set to play at the custom speed of 1.0 and it plays at the global speed of 1.5 instead. So I manually change the speed to 1.0. When that podcast ends, the next one to play doesn’t have a custom playback speed, so it should play at whatever I have the global speed set to which in this case is 1.5, and it plays at what I had manually set the previous podcast speed too. So I change it to play it 1.0 speed and when this podcast ends the next one that should be playing at the global speed doesn’t switch over to 1.5.
Essentially what is happening is exactly the title of this post. Playback speed settings are completely ignored no matter if it’s global or per podcast. All that matters is what the speed is set at in the player.
I haven’t tried too much to resolve the issue but I did try setting global playback speed to 1.0 and then back to 1.5 thinking it might reset a setting that got stuck somewhere. That didn’t resolve it. I also disabled and re-enabled custom speed for a few of the podcasts I had custom speed set for and that didn’t resolve it either.
I’m not sure what screen recording would provide over this description but if you want, I’ll be happy to provide any logs that you tell me to provide
Edit: to add a little more detail, I had some time to mess around and one other thing I noticed is that the playback speed is honored if you pick and choose which podcast you want to play from your queue. But if you let it auto play from one episode to the next, the playback speed both global and custom are not honored. I’ll add more detail if I figure anything else out
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### Author:  [@Jimx](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Jimx)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/11 "2026-06-27T15:46:29Z")
I’ve seen the case where you go to change the podcast speed and there’s no setting at all.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/playback-speed-doesnt-follow-episodes/8612/12 "2026-10-25T15:47:06Z")
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