iTunes 9: Podcasts in a playlist won't copy to iPod?

That was the trick! Yes, once the iPod is connected and selected from the left hand tool bar, I see the tabs in the center screen. Silly me, I thought this would be an iTunes configuration 😉 Thank you!!!!!!

No problem. I really wish there was a way to keep the iPod in the source list when it wasn't connected, like you could with the shuffle. It's annoying that to change any settings, you have to connect (which starts a sync), then change your settings, then sync again.

Kevin O'Shea wrote:
No problem. I really wish there was a way to keep the iPod in the source list when it wasn't connected, like you could with the shuffle. *It's annoying that to change any settings, you have to connect (which starts a sync), then change your settings, then sync again.*

Open Preferences > Devices tab > Check next to *Prevent iPhones and iPods syncing automatically* and click OK. Now you can review your sync settings when you connect your iPod.

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Yeah, I know about that. The double-sync isn't the main issue - it just adds to my annoyance. Most of the time, I want to sync when connecting.

My point was that it would be nice to check/uncheck a playlist or a photo album before actually connecting the iPod, and then having it sync automatically when I do connect.

I'd just like to add my thanks to Kevin and Lance for the rather inelegant but somehow functional workaround. Like many others here I rely on my iPod Classic as my sole means of consuming media while in the car, gardening, in work and in other places where I can't be reaching for the controls every five minutes, and so I need my podcasts and radio shows to be in chronological order. Otherwise it's pointless listening to them.

As for Apple... has there ever been a company so adept at taking something used by millions of happy owners, adding and tweaking features nobody asked for or needed altering, and funtamentaly breaking something major in the process?

It's staggering.

Honestly, Apple, we've all seen this sort of thing before where you break something but never fix it until the next major release because in the meantime users seemingly far more industrious and resourceful than your own people have found workarounds.

But this is really serious. I Googled "itunes 9 playlist order broken" when I realised what had happend to my playlists and there were at least two full pages of links. You have p---ed off an awful lot of your customers with this one. So please, treat this problem with the seriousness it warrants and FIX it ASAP.

I have experienced the same problem. Do you think that Apple monitors these discussions... or is it a self-help support forum.

In anycase, it is currently not usable.

this is precisely my trouble with my 1g nano. Thanks so much for the fix. I wasted a lot of time and grumpiness on it.

Working through the same problems as everyone else, I got my playlist to show up on my ipod, the problem now is I cannot access any playlist on my ipod at all. I can go through song by song and podcast by podcast just no playlists on the ipod.

The playlist shows up, it just does nothing when I click it?

This doesn't solve the syncing problem for me at all, I still can't get the podcasts in my playlists onto my iPod. I have a small playlist "recent news" that is limited to the N most recent podcasts that I sync to my 10GB nano. That playlist depends upon a larger playlist "news" that is too big to sync to my nano (done by using the "Playlist" query field). It used to work that it would sync to my nano all the podcasts that ended up in "recent news" even though "news" wasn't on the iPod. Now, even if I check the box to Include Eposides from Playlists for "recent news", they still don't sync. Actually, checking the box for "News" doesn't work either.

I've built up a sophisticated set of playlists that depend upon one another and that depend on folders so that iTunes could automatically and perfectly manage what subset of my 60GB library goes onto my 10GB nano without my having to think about it. In releasing a product that isn't backwards-compatible with previous playlist behavior they completely broke my entire setup. I'm p---ed, I rely on this software every day, and I'm reverting back to iTunes 8.

Apple: if you need some help regression testing your frickin' software, I'd be happy to send you my library.

To make sure Apple registers this bug, everyone should report it at:

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

@captainslim to update all unplayed episodes and a playlist of podcasts, just create a new smart playlist of all podcasts where play count is 0 (or is less than 1), and check that one off in you sync settings too.

Hopefully that should work.

Thanks, Luke. That's just what the doctor ordered. This will be the perfect workaround until Apple fixes this.

9.0.1 is out and "Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone."

I assume this is the problem we were all having, and so it was a bug, rather than a feature, and is now gone.

Anyone been able to test yet?

Yup, worked for me, as well. Many thanks!

Still not working for me.... Bummer


Lance VE's solutions is still working for me though.

Message was edited by: Russell Hoorn