As above really, listening to podcasts and it never shows as played in either the library or the device

Is there a way to fix this or should i just return it while i can and switch back to an ipod?

Does anyone know what could cause multiple podcasts appear under each others section, its all ones from roosterteeth and as far as i can see all the artist and album tags are different so don't know why some get grouped together. for example the patch episode 3 appears in the listing for 4 different...