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Podcast Continuously Out of Order in iPhone 2.1

Greetings,

I just updated my iPhone 3G firmware to 2.1 and it has altered the way podcasts play. When one podcast finished it now immediately starts the next.

This would ordinarily be an improvement, but all of my podcast episodes are listed from most recent (top) to oldest (bottom), and the iPhone insists on playing the next one in the list; which is backwards, since I always want to listen to podcasts from oldest to most recent.

Is there a way to either (a) stop the iPhone from immediately playing the next podcast, like the 2.0 software did, or (b) reverse the order in which podcast episodes are listed.

(b) would be the preferable solution, since I find it annoying to have to scroll down to the bottom of every podcast list to find the next episode to play.

PowerMac G5/iPhone 3G

Posted on Sep 12, 2008 3:39 PM

71 replies

Nov 14, 2008 5:16 PM in response to DeadPrez

Your guess is as good as ours.

My guess: Corporate bloat at Apple?

Zytrex

Level 1

0 points

Nov 19, 2008 3:53 AM in response to James Bucanek

/signed

We absolutely need to be able to order podcasts from oldest to newest. The way it works now, it finishes playing one, goes to an older one I already heard, so I have to make it skip backwards two tracks to get the the correct one. So annoying.

Nov 20, 2008 12:00 AM in response to James Bucanek

This is also the case with the ipod Classic. I just bought a new one since my old one finally died, and now I find that my podcasts play continuously which is really a pain especially if you are listening before bed or while travelling and you fall asleep. It kills the battery, and if you are without a charger your screwed.

This was a poor choice on someone's part.

PierreS

Level 1

2 points

Nov 21, 2008 4:49 AM in response to James Bucanek

So there is a new firmware out: 2.2
Does it solve the issue we are all concerned about? Havent had time to check.

Pierre

Nov 21, 2008 5:54 AM in response to PierreS

YEP! 🙂

2.2 solves the problem, oldest podcasts are now listed at the top, so when you play a bunch of them they play in the correct order.

NICE!

Nov 22, 2008 8:10 AM in response to James Bucanek

While it's true they fixed the bug where newest podcasts appeared at the top of the list, they still have not fixed the bug where the next podcast plays automatically. It still appears there is no way to play just 1 podcast and have it return to the menu. Very frustrating.

Dec 1, 2008 4:53 PM in response to RagtopMan

Plus there is the problem where multipart podcasts are still playing out of order. If you reverse the track number then it plays in the correct order. So 2.2 really only fixes half the problem.

Dec 1, 2008 6:45 PM in response to David Wilkinson6

Go to:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

to give feedback.

Dec 1, 2008 6:55 PM in response to Charles Buckheit

How do you reverse the track order????? No matter what I do the multipart podcasts are always backwards. I'm about to throw my iPhone in the trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dec 3, 2008 2:00 PM in response to luvmymac77

I'm listening to a podcast that has three hours per day. Highlight hour 3 and type command+i (get info). Or in the menu do File/Get Info. Click on the info tab, and change the track number from 3 of 3 to 1 of three. Do the same for hour 1 but make it three. Then sync your iphone. This works for me...hopefully it will work for you too. And hopefully Apple will fix this cause changing the track numbers is a PITA.

chidi

Level 1

0 points

Dec 6, 2008 6:51 AM in response to RagtopMan

I thought this problem was resolved, but it's back. I just want to play the unplayed podcasts once and then stop. They just keep repeating. Grrrrrr.

Dianna

Podcast Continuously Out of Order in iPhone 2.1