I'm not really sure if this behavior has changed or not.

I have the stady habit to click close at panucci to switch back to gpodder to play the next track because the player was not starting with the audio track if it was already opened. Could be more than a year ago. I'm not sure. This workaround worked very well for me.

But at the moment there is definitifly something wrong. It is starting the current audio file again and again from the beginning. If the audio file was paused it is continuing from the actual position. I have to sleep now. Will check it tomorning again at the way to work.

If you're actually playing a podcast it could be very annoying if the new file is simply opened and played. At minimum there should be a bookmark or something else to find the last played position again. Or we should continue to play the current podcast and show a message that the new podcast is added to the playlist. (I like the second possibility more for podcasts and the first if I would use panucci for music - but for this I use already the Media Player)