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Q: Podcast won't play without internet connection

I have a new (month old) iPod touch with iOS 10.0.2.  If I try to play a podcast it puts up a box saying that it can't connect to the internet.  In my house with wi-fi turned on it works fine; but obviously in my car this is broken -- but of course that's where I mostly listen to podcasts.  I've tried restarting Podcast and power off/on of the iPod.  I haven't tried a reset, which I shall try next, but I'm not sanguine.  (I also had the "download waiting" forever problem, but got rid of that by cancelling the download.)

I had the same problem with iOS 10.0.1.

Playing music without the internet works just fine.

iPod touch (5th generation), Windows 7, iOS 10.1.2, iTunes 12.5.1.21

Posted on Sep 26, 2016 3:44 PM

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  • by lllaass,

    lllaass lllaass Sep 27, 2016 1:34 AM in response to jbl-az
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    Sep 27, 2016 1:34 AM in response to jbl-az

    That mean you are trying to stream the the podcast, yo have not downloaded the podcasts to your iPod.

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    jbl-az jbl-az Sep 27, 2016 1:46 AM in response to jbl-az
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    Sep 27, 2016 1:46 AM in response to jbl-az

    Update: Power/Home reset did not help.

  • by jbl-az,

    jbl-az jbl-az Sep 27, 2016 1:55 AM in response to lllaass
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    Sep 27, 2016 1:55 AM in response to lllaass

    :

    First, enabling Wi-Fi and downloading the episode I was trying to play did allow me to play it with Wi-Fi off.  The next (up-next) podcast however did not work, complaining that my device is not connected to the internet.

    Second, all my podcasts are downloaded ahead of time using iTunes and Sync.  Podcasts that exist but don't have content on the iPod show a cloud icon.  The podcasts I have been trying to listen to do not have cloud icons, and they were  sync'ed from my PC.  They do have a very small faint exclamation point in a circle right after the date and length in the episode list; I don't know what that means.  But I can't go through all my podcasts and manually reload all the episodes.

    So what I will do next, since it's now overnight time, will be to do a complete restore from iTunes.  Possibly in the various iOS and iTunes upgrades something got screwed up in the podcast database.

    Thanks for your response.

  • by jbl-az,

    jbl-az jbl-az Sep 27, 2016 2:34 PM in response to jbl-az
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    Sep 27, 2016 2:34 PM in response to jbl-az

    Update: I did a full restore.  I must have a setting screwed up, or they changed something.  Now "sync"ing a podcast means adding it to the episode list, apparently, not copying the out of iTunes onto the iPod; so I seem to have to manually download at least some episodes before I can take my iPod out of the house.

     

    Maybe the new version is intended to work mainly on iPhones, where the internet is more often available (via cellular service)?