Podcast Continuously Out of Order in iPhone 2.1

No workaround to this bug. Very annoying. Next search - downgrading Firmware 2.1 to 2.0.

Any response from Apple on this one? This new "feature" is starting to annoy and there are no settings to control it.

Wow I thought I was going mad! Yes this feature or bug is very annoying. Needs to go back to the original way of playing.

I am very disapointed by this new feature. The whole layout shows promises but the fact that any (is it random?) podcast episode will be played after I'm done with the one I'm listening to, is a bad choice. There should at least be options:
a) queue with next
b) queue with previous
c) stop playing.

When could this be fixed? It's making my podcast experience a bit frustrating.

I thought I was insane also due to this "improvement"....!

I must be the only person here that actually likes the feature of playing the next podcast after the one I'm listening to is finished especially if I'm catching up on a lot of one particular podcast. The only problem with the current solution is that the order is wrong iPhone and should be ordered chronologically from oldest to newest.

The work around is to just create a smart playlist in itunes and creating a few conditions like Genre is Podcast, Artist is <podcast name>, etc and order by date released which is what I've done for now.

That will work, but it sounds like a solution Micrisoft would come up with - not Apple.

With the playlists - can you "start where left off"?

Actually, I really like being able to play one podcast after another too and I had created several smart playlists to do so. I was then using the standard podcasts folders to be able to play podcasts one at a time. So, with this new "feature", I now have essentially 2 different methods to enable playing podcasts one after another, but no way to play them one at a time. Thanks Apple! ;-(

Yeah it plays where it left off. I've also added a condition in the smart playlist which is Playcount = 0 so it'll remove podcasts I've finished listening to

Just to add another customer's voice...

I agree wholeheartedly with the frustration caused by this change - and add my vote to the request to either return the default behaviour to as it was, or give the option to either stop after each episode or play through in chronological order.

In the meantime thank you for the tip on using a smart playlist as a work around.

Like others, I too 'discovered' this feature after accepting the 2.1 upgrade. My wife and I both find it infuriating. Like at least one other person in this thread, I listen to one of my favourite podcast episodes last thing at night, and this new feature of not stopping, but carrying on to a next episode, has ruined the pleasure of unwinding last thing before sleep. At the very least, this feature should be switchable.

Failing that, is there any way to revert to 2.0? When I click on 'Restore' in iTunes, it threatens to restore me to factory settings. I'd rather go to 2.0 and then wait for a 'fix' for this incredibly annoying nuisance.

It would be good if someone from Apple could comment, and offer either a workaround or a prognosis for a fix.

Add me to the list of frustrated users.

And I also think the art is too big and prevents titles from being displayed correctly.

If I had wanted to listen to my podcasts without interruption I would have created a playlist for myself and that would have been simple enough.

Good idea on the smart playlist/Playlist to go... but BOO on the fact that we have to use this as an optional second and extra step considering that the previous method was quite good enough... I just don't understand the logic behind making someone listen to a new podcast and then moving on to a previously listened podcast right after... if you're going to do it this way apple... at least allow us to listen to a new podcast. I also want to say that after listening to a podcast from say CNET for 45mins I tend to want to move on to another type of podcast say from New York Times... and I want that option without having to hear the next new podcast from CNET... sounds fair to me ^_^

Funny that the thing that Apple is supposed to have down pat (music playback) is the thing that is most annoying to me on my iPhone.

Please, Apple:

1. Allow the sort order to be set, or just set it to where it goes from oldest to newest, rather than the other way around. It is a pain to deal with this.

2. Go back to having podcasts play one at a time, or make it a selectable preference. However, it would not be such a problem if you fixed problem #1.

Thank you.