Why does the app require cellular data turned on to listen to a downloaded podcast?
I get asked to turned cellular data on in order to listen to a podcast that I had downloaded.
The sequence is this:
- download podcast while on wifi
- get in car and onto the road, off of wifi
- select podcast and hit play
- receive prompt asking if I want cellular data turned on
- hit 'cancel'
- look at podcast episode list to verify there is no 'download cloud' icon on episode
- repeat steps 3-6
- select different podcast
- repeat steps 3-6
- resist throwing phone out car window
Oddly enough, this week I was driving in and this happened. Traffic stopped, and I was prompted for an open wifi network. I joined the net, started the podcast and it worked. I wasn't prompted to use cellular data. Traffic moved again and for the rest of the drive I was able to listen to the podcast despite being far out of range of that wifi net.
So the app appears to have a logic error in determining whether it should ask for cellular data, and there's no way to convince it to play the episode(s) downloaded.
Has anyone found a solution to this?