I’m using Podcasts on the Android app.
What I’ve noticed is that Plex app is using mobile data to stream podcasts that have already been downloaded, defeating the purpose of downloading them in the first place.
If I set the app to “Offline Browsing” then the podcasts play using the downloaded version. If I uncheck offline browsing and play the same podcast, I notice my mobile data usage meter start logging significant traffic to the Plex app.
There is a setting in the app to “Prefer synced content”. If you don’t enable that, it will continue to stream.
Sorry, yes, I forgot to mention - I have that ticked and it appears to work for ordinary content from my Plex server, but just not Podcasts.
It’s possible that there is indeed an issue here. We’re investigating.
I’ve experienced the same behavior. I can’t remember if offline browsing was enabled or not. I was playing podcasts that I had downloaded but Android reported Plex using about 300 megabytes of mobile data over the course of two or three days.
I’ve been playing Podcasts a lot over the last week or so, and I’m also experiencing the Podcasts stop playing then start at the beginning bug so the data consumed by Plex every time I play a Podcast has been huge - Every time a podcast loads or needs to be reloaded it chews down 50-300MB of mobile data!
These Podcasts are definitely synced and I have the prefer offline option switched on.
I have experienced the same issue. Prefer synced content is ON.
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