How to un-play podcast episode

I clicked something as I was mousing around with iTunes. One of my podcast episodes started to play. I never intentionally listen to media on my PC, so I stopped the play somehow (I forgot what I did to stop it). However, the podcast episode is now designated as "playing". I would like to un-designate the episode as "playing". How can this be done in iTunes?

turingtest2 wrote:
Apple rejects my alias wrote:
I simply want the podcast to not have the speaker symbol beside it (see iTunes help on "symbols"), which means that it is playing (albeit paused). I also want the scrubber bar for the episode to go away from the top of the iTunes window.
Having started the episode playing it will register as part-played (half dot) as opposed to unplayed (full dot) unless you right/option click it and Mark as Unplayed.
To make the speaker icon and scrubber bar go away, having stopped playback, simply select an alternative source or playlist, then go back to the Podcast source.
tt2
Thanks tt2. There is no "Mark as Unplayed". I suspect that it is because the episode did not play to completion. However, selecting another playlist did make the speaker icon go away. Strangely, a full blue dot is shown rather than a half dot.

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