jbl-az
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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; it's just the Podcast app.

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

Posted on Sep 26, 2016 3:47 PM

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  • by stowellt,

    stowellt stowellt Sep 27, 2016 9:07 AM in response to jbl-az
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    Sep 27, 2016 9:07 AM in response to jbl-az

    If I had to guess I'd say in your house the podcast is "streaming" i.e. not downloading first.  I think the problem is that subscribed podcasts aren't automatically downloading anymore. (I'm having the same issue)  My advice is to click on the 3 dots next to the podcast title and select download before going to your car.

  • by jbl-az,

    jbl-az jbl-az Sep 27, 2016 10:39 AM in response to stowellt
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    Sep 27, 2016 10:39 AM in response to stowellt

    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.  And I certainly don't want to have to manually download each podcast I've just downloaded into iTunes anyhow.

     

    I did try a Power/Home reset, no help; I now have just done a complete restore and will see if perhaps some conflict between the Podcast library and the iPod introduced by two iPod and one iTunes software updates might have been resolved.

  • by jbl-az,

    jbl-az jbl-az Sep 27, 2016 2:30 PM in response to jbl-az
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    Sep 27, 2016 2:30 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)?

  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Oct 1, 2016 5:17 PM in response to jbl-az
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    Oct 1, 2016 5:17 PM in response to jbl-az

    In Podcasts app select My Podcasts, then one of the podcasts you subscribe to. Select the Gear icon, then scroll to the On This iPod section. Tap on Download Episodes and select one of the options.

     

    Unlike the subscription option, this setting controls which episodes will be actually downloaded to the device. The downloads occurs when you're device is charging and connected to your Wi-Fi. For most users, that's overnight.