Q: iTunes v11+. Podcasts skip/jump during playback or do not download.
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Apr 15, 2014 10:53 AMby Carlton Smith,I have the same problem playing podcasts. It skips to the next podcast a few minutes after one has begun. This pretty much makes the desktop tool useless. On the bright side I can see this problem has been going on for several months and no one at apple seems to think its worth following up on or responding to. I guess I'll be looking for a new tool to synch my podcasts with the desktop and track them.
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Jul 1, 2015 2:04 PMby Fustanella,The podcast-skip issue is happening to me as well. Brand new PC with plenty of spare cores, fresh install of iTunes 12.1.2.27, 64-bit, on Win8.1.
I looked around for anything relating to buffer, prefetch, something that would decrease the chance it would think it's done and move on to the next, with no joy.
This has been around since v11? Yippee.
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Jul 2, 2015 3:59 AMby yamate,I'm also experiencing this, while playing podcasts on Itunes on the PC. Just random skipping ahead to the next podcast, whether it is streaming them or they are all downloaded / or subscribed or not , etc. Everything else is normal, as is the Podcasts app on Iphone. This is also now occuring in the brand new update June 2nd.
EDIT: I'll also add that the place where the podcast is playing is not lost, when playing again it picks up where it left off.
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Aug 19, 2015 10:34 AMby aschlot,I'm also experiencing this regularly (often multiple times per episode), across multiple podcasts. Quite maddening since I use podcasts to stay sane during long work sessions. Apple, you seem to enjoy updating iTunes with great frequency (and often at the expense of some good UI): bug fix on this sooner, please?
iTunes 12.2.2.16
OSX Yosemite (10.10.5)
MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch, Mid-2014
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Nov 18, 2015 3:12 AMby SaahilFazil,This was still happening to right now; skipping every 2-3 minutes infact; and after snooping around for a while, found an option that says 'skip when shuffling', under playback option for each podcast (right click > get info > options > it should be there) and it was activated, so I selected the set of podcasts I'm listening to and de-activated it. Been listening for the last 15-20 minutes, and no skipping =D
Check it out, might solve the problem.
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Dec 9, 2015 6:22 AMby TUPhiPsi,To expand on Saahil's post I wrote an AppleScript that automatically unchecks the Skip When Shuffling option of all podcast. You can then add it to your Calendar app and have it run whenever you want/need it to. Here's the code with no guarantees.
Open AppleScript editor and copy and past this code:
tell application "iTunes"
set podcastList to user playlist "Podcasts"
set fileCount to count of file tracks of podcastList
repeat with t from fileCount to 1 by -1
set thisTrack to file track t of podcastList
set shufflable of thisTrack to true
set enabled of thisTrack to true
end repeat
end tell
If you are still using Mountain Lion:
Save the script as an application. (Hold Option/Alt key, select Save As from menu, select Application)
Create a new Event in your Calendar app and under Alert select Open File and then choose the AppleScript application you created above.
Newer OS
Open Automator (Applications-->Utilities-->Automator)
Create A Calendar Alarm
From the Library pane select Utilities
From the adjacent pane, drag Run AppleScript into workflow area
Copy and paste the AppleScript you just wrote into the Run AppleScript box, replace 'Your Script Here' (or something like that) with your code.
Save
Automator will create a new calendar in Calendar titled Automator. You can now edit this Calendar Event to repeat when you want and when it is scheduled it will run the AppleScript.
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Feb 17, 2016 9:58 AMby TjOakley,It is ASTOUNDING to me that this was noted on Oct 2013 and it is still an issue February 2016.
We should not have to "create a script" to remedy this situation, there should be an iTunes update to fix this.
Apple... What are you doing?
Running Macbook Pro (Late 2013)
El Capitan 10.11.3
iTunes 12.3.2.35
