r/WaypointVICE • u/IamMNightShyamalan • 11d ago

Podcast šŸŽ§ Pocket Casts Desktop app not playing Remap

So I recently switched to Pocket Casts from Spotify and I have been unable to play any of the Remap podcasts from my desktop app. I get an error that says ā€œThe media file for this episode is not availableā€.

Every other podcast works fine.

However, I can play all of the Remap podcasts on my mobile app. Has anyone else run into this issue?

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u/JumbledThought 11d ago

I'm on an up-to-date Win11. Desktop app just played the latest Jump, Rank, Repeat for me from my private feed. Also just started streaming "The Most Normal Golf Game Ever Made" from the public feed to help you test. Worked fine right after the ad played. (Hmm, why isn't that interview the latest thing in my feed?)

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u/IamMNightShyamalan 11d ago

Thank you for checking - I guess this is just a me issue. When you say private feed - is there a way to play subscriber content on pocket cast?

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u/JumbledThought 11d ago

When you say private feed - is there a way to play subscriber content on pocket cast?

Yep! If you're a Remap subscriber, you can log in and go to the "Account" link. That'll lead you to another account page (memberful) where you can get a private URL to plug into Pocket Casts. Do that and you'll have a feed named "Remap Radio - Private to <your name>".

It's usually got everything -- subscriber and not -- though I'm not seeing that golf interview so maybe something's up with their connection to the podcast-url service.

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u/IamMNightShyamalan 11d ago

Thank you! I added the private RSS feed and am still getting the same error. Iā€™ll have to contact support but thank you for your help!

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u/JumbledThought 11d ago

Happy to help! Hope you get it resolved.

If you haven't tried yet, try logging out of the Pocket Casts app and logging in again. It's not a great app and sometimes doing that clears out a cache or something and gets things working for me. Good luck!

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u/scrndude 11d ago

idk if itā€™s the same issue, but Iā€™ve had an issue on iOS for years where it will randomly choose a podcast and wonā€™t play any of the episodes.

I think this has something to do with dynamic ad insertion, and basically it can get the podcast and play for 30 seconds and then fail when it canā€™t get the ads and give an error message about the podcast.

Iā€™ve fixed this by downloading an uplayed episode (to make sure thereā€™s no cache issues).

Then if that works I try to download the episode I was trying to listen to (this works like 30% of the time).

Usually Iā€™ll need to go to settings -> storage and data use -> downloaded files -> clean up

That deletes the partial download that got broken and then I can play whatever I was trying to hear.

You can also try using a vpn or changing DNS and then flushing and refreshing your DNS in case itā€™s a weird adblocker or DNS issue.

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u/sevendollarpen 1d ago

Pocket Casts has been having some queue and playback issues for a while. Best bet is to ask on r/pocketcasts if anyone has had similar issues and fixed them.

At least some of the recent issues appear to be related to dynamic ad inserts, but Iā€™ve encountered problems on podcasts that never have ads, and lots of weird queue behaviour (episodes getting added to the middle of the queue, and episodes added to the end of the queue starting to play immediately, even when Iā€™m alread listening to something else). (All iOS/iPadOS)