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Some Podcasts won't play with cellular data

I hope someone can help me. Some podcasts will simply not play when I am using cellular data. It just says episode unavailable. I can start the podcast on wifi then switch over to cellular data and it continues playing.

The weird thing is that it is just for some podcasts. Is there a setting I am missing ?

Example none of "how stuff works" podcasts work but "no such thing as a fish" works fine.

Please help, I have looked everywhere for settings

Posted on Apr 5, 2017 2:16 PM

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Homervanderjaz

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Posted on Apr 13, 2017 2:20 PM

Had same problem- Podcasts wouldn't play over mobile data connection. I wasn't trying to download them but just stream them. Only did this with certain podcasts, not sure if it's to do with file size.

Anyway the fix for me was go to podcast settings and turn off only download on WIFI.

Now bear in mind I am still not actually downloading but streaming, yet turning this setting off allows me to stream the podcast. Hope this helps

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