iOS7 missing podcast list in Music app

Do youhave the podcasts app?

If so, then podcasts do not appear in the music app with the podcasts app installed.

I have the same question.

I don't have the Podcasts app...I've always listened to Podcasts through the Music icon. Now it's not showing up there.

Thay have been moved to the (updated) Podcasts app in iOS 7.

Fire up the Podcasts app, tap My Stations at the bottom and then select "iTunes Playlists".

Someone just told me that smart playlists like those that use "playcount=0" do not automatically update in Podcasts though.

so I have to download a Podcasts app?

Yes.

Though it should probably already be there in iTunes since it's one of the default apps since iOS 6 IIRC.

I have the same question too.

The podcast app is not included as standard either under ios 6 or ios 7. I have never used it and never want to use it.

I want podcasts as part of the music app so I can continue to listen to playlists on the phone with both audiobooks and podcasts. I can see no way of doing this either in music or in the podcast app (I dl it just to see and then deleted it.)

You have to use the Podcasts app to listen to Podcasts. There doesn't seem to be any way to get them back in the Music app.

I don't like it, but that's the situation.

I gave instructions above on how to see your iTunes playlists of your podcasts in the Podcasts app.

with IOS6 if you deleted the Podcast apps you had them back in the music apps and you could continue to mix audiobooks and podcasts or genre music compilations and genre music podcast in the same thematic playlist.

It seems not possible anymore with IOS 7. I removed the podcast apps and shut don't my Iphone but in the opposite of what happened with IOS6 the odscasts have not come back...

If anybody find the solution please help me.

Thank you for your reply therealcmj.

Yes I could see my itunes playlist in the podcast app before I deleted it but my problem remains the same.

It seems complete nonsense that I cannot have a playlist - in whatever app that Apple want me to use, I am not fussy - that lets me listen to a podcast and then listen to an audiobook in iOS 7 without having to pick up the phone and change apps - when the self same playlist was created in itunes on a mac where you can listen to playlists with mixed audiobooks and podcats.

I'm having the same problems when "upgrading" to IOS7!

For years, I've mixed music and playlists and listened to them on my long distance bike rides, only to find this may no longer be possible! This is incredibly frustrating!

Apple fix this!

I have the same problem, and I really really don't like the current version of the Podcast app. If they give it a proper iOS 7 treatment and makes the syncing work, then I could be persuaded to use it, but as it stands now, I'm more annoyed at them changing my workflow and hindering my content consumption.

One thing the Podcast app has that the old Music app didn't is 1.5x and 2x speed playback for video.

So that's a positive!

Yes and also the "time out" fonction, very usefull when you listen to your podcast when you go to bed 🙂

But why losing something? why not having the best of both world, or at least a choice?

I can't run anymore with my podcasts,

I have to "re-type" all my musicall podcasts to music to be able to listen to them as the great compilations (mix tapes) they are,

and above all when I drive listening to documents on History, I have to change every time from podcast to music and music to podcast because some are Audiobooks and Others are Podcasts. And now I can't do it anymore from the integrated car controls but I have to take me Iphone in my hands and Search while I am driving. Not very safe, is it?

Do the people that developped the Podcast Apps and the Music Apps really use it?

I don't know, maybe they are separated teams and do not communicate. maybe they think Podcasts is just Radio Replay, maybe they didn't figured out that the Podcasts things they helped to create is so much more and more innovative that they imaginated. I do not know but at the end of the day it bothers me and make me feel that apple is a company looking at the past and not seeing how what they have done has changed the way we consume content or learn things, a company that used to break frontiers and now wanti to put things in small boxes. :-( Or maybe I am just becoming more exigent from them...

Hey, don't complain, or they will take _ALL_ the words out of the Music app so it turns into karaoke and all the lyrics turn up as a capella or rap in the Podcast app.

They have the power to do that, you know. Don't tempt them.

therealcmj said:

One thing the Podcast app has that the old Music app didn't is 1.5x and 2x speed playback for video.

That is a nice thing, but they could have done that in the Music app too. It would be quite useful for those of us who want to zip through the fat-lady-sings part of an opera.

There is a clear failure of vision here on the part of the app designers. They have lapsed into Microsoft-think of viewing stuff from the suppliers point of view rather than from the consumers point of view.

As consumers, what we see is a bunch of stuff we can listen to - music (without the fat lady singing, of course), audio books, podcasts. We want to create a custom delivery channel (aka playlist) that will pay audio for as long as we want to listen.

Someone at Apple who is obviously deaf since birth and very intrigued by taxonomy has decided that podcasts are nothing, NOTHING, like music. Totally unrelated. You mix podcasts and music in the same app and people will just get confused, ring the Apple help desk, and complain. Or something.

iOS 8 will have a Rap app. Anything classified as rap is clearly unrelated to other, normal people's music. And the player can only live in the last page of apps. With the Classical app. And the Gospel app. And Curntrey We-astern. Prog Rock. Any any singer who died at age 27...

I don't know what kind of wrong-think process resulted in the split of audio content into two immiscable pools, but they need to find the perps, make them pack up their wind-up toys and novelty coffee mugs, and march them out the door.

Bad Apple. Rotten Apple!