Why are both the back and forward buttons grayd out on now playing app

Hi

The rewind and skip controls become active when playing supported media.

More information:

Now Playing

This happened to me too. After the update to 4.2, the skip back/ahead 15 are replaced by Fast Forward / Rewind while listening to my Podcasts. Also when my media stops playing, "Now Playing" looses the information thats currently playing.

I have found this is inconsistent while playing music from my library playlists.

Sometimes it will display the skip/seek function and other times it wont.

I just got this issue after the latest watchOS update to 4.2. Now all i can control is the volume. I am using apple music on my iphone.