Podcast playlist not synced to iPhone 3gs, 3.1 iTunes 9

I have the same problem but I am on a PC. Exact problem. I drop podcasts into a playlist so them play from one to another while I run. But since the software update the playlist is in iTunes but not on my iPod. Why does it not sync to the iPod when it is in iTunes?

Same problem here, in my case with a smart playlist. Extremely annoying!

Found the solution right after posting. For some reason that I will never understand, the new podcast settings for iphones in iTunes 9 defaults to not syncing any podcasts, no matter what your previous settings were. Just go to the podcast preferences tab on your iphone screen in itunes and turn podcasts back on.

I have an iPod Nano, not an iPhone. I can't find the setting in either iTunes or the iPod. Where is it??? Thanks!

Yes, I've noticed the same problem.
Podcasts sync ok and are listed under Podcasts on the iPod as you would expect, BUT, any podcasts that are in a playlist do NOT appear in the playlist on the iPod.
This was working fine prior to iTunes 9.

I have the same problem. Brand new 3GS, 3.1, iTunes 9. I synced the iPhone & went to the Podcast tab in iTunes on my G5 iMac. On the left side of the screen was a box with pictures of the different podcasts in my ITunes. On the right was a box that was entitled "Episodes." On the left side, below the Podcast box was another box entitled, "Include Episodes from Playlists." Inside the box was a list of all of my podcast playlists, most of which were not checked. I checked them, then re-synced my iPhone. The podcast playlists are now on my iPhone under playlists!

Same problem here. I can create a playlist full of podcast but it will not sync with my iPod (Classic 160g). This has to be iTunes 9, since it was fine for years.

SA

I've managed to find a work around.

I subscribe to several podcasts and had a smart playlist ("media_kind = podcast" as the filter). The playlist was fine in iTunes, present on my iPod (120G Classic) but empty. Just started happening with upgrade to iTunes 9. This same configuration has worked fine for at least 1 year. Same MBP, same iPod....(I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard too)

I played around with the filter, switched it to "genre=podcast"....same thing. Seems ok in iTunes, won't sync with iPod.

I solved it by changing my smart playlist to use "Album contains <podcast_name>". I toggled the playlist to use "any" of the rules and then just added each podcast by name to the smart playlist. Now when I sync with my iPod, all the podcasts show up on the iPod in that playlist.

For smart playlists, it seems to matter which rules you use to create them. Some of the attributes don't work (media-kind, genre) don't work, others (like Album) work ok. I haven't tried all the applicable ones. Once I got it working, I stopped testing.

Wow! Thank you! This was awesome - to read your post and find a way around this STUPID problem. I hope that the Apple people see this thread and fix it for the next version of iTunes, because the Smart PlayList option isn't quite the same. But thank you thank you thank you! You rock!

Good work around, but the point is, this isn't supposed to happen. I expect more from Mac products.

Stupid question-- but how do you do THAT?

How to you change filters? I have not idea where to find these settings. Thanks!

A "filter" is a way to include/exclude specific songs/podcasts in a smart play list. It's actually pretty easy.

In iTunes, click on "new smart play list" (I'm going from memory here...). That will open a window where you create the filter that will be used to construct the playlist. Previously many of us had used filtering based on the kind or genre, but that stopped working with iTunes 9 for podcasts.

You can create a filter as described (album contains <podcast name>) for each of the podcasts that you want to add to this playlist. Use the "+" to add a new filter. The default condition for multiple lines is to "and" them together...in other words, they all have to be true. You can toggle "ANY" which "or's" them together and requires that only one of them be true.

Once you have named the smart play list, you can inspect the contents to see if it is what you want. You can edit it (right click on the playlist, edit) to modify it as you want. They are dynamically updated, so as your new podcasts episodes are downloaded, the playlist updates itself! Pretty cool.

You can do all kinds of stuff with smart playlists...have fun!

And good luck.