Many podcast listeners have taken to social platforms such as Twitter and Reddit to report that they aren’t able to listen to their favorite podcasts since apps such as Apple Music, Spotify, and Google Podcasts are not working or aren’t playing the podcasts.
Users say that they either get a message saying ‘Episode Unavailable’ or the podcast just does not play or gets stuck on loading.
We’ve added a few reports from affected users below for reference:
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The issue appears to be going on for at least a couple of hours at the time of this writing and there does not appear to be any official statement regarding the outage from Spotify, Google, or Apple.
In some cases, certain individuals can play some podcasts but certain episodes don’t play. In other cases, users aren’t able to play any podcasts at all.
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there’s one workaround for the time being that might do the trick for you in case you aren’t able to listen to podcasts on Apple Music, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.
You can head over to YouTube to listen to podcasts that have been uploaded to the video-sharing site. Of course, platform-exclusive podcasts such as The Joe Rogan Experience won’t be available on YouTube.
It’s unclear how long it will take for the issue to be resolved but we do suspect that it will be addressed sooner rather than later.
That said, we’ll keep track of the situation and will post an update to this story if and when we come across any further developments.