Big Sur 11.3 Podcast App-- Can no longer drag and drop to Finder

Apple should be ashamed of forcing users to do this ridiculous workaround. Ten years ago when I was using iTunes I could easily play podcasts and music in playlists in one application effortlessly. Since they inexplicably broke iTunes into three applications users have been made to jump through hoops just to get basic functions done. Once upon a time Steve Jobs sold Apple as a computer that "just works." Recently they have repeatedly made changes to applications that limit functionality for no apparent reason. I am baffled how anyone at apple can justify these changes. If anyone at apple is listening please fix Podcasts and Music so that podcasts can be dragged into playlists in music. Many users enjoy sequencing Podcasts and missing Podcasts in with songs so that we can exercise or commute without having to manually play individual Podcasts / songs. If you are wondering how it can be accomplished simply put the application back the way it was. It was a tedious process to drag and drop files from Podcasts to music, but at least it worked. The above workaround works but is a real hassle.

Are you joking? It is happening to everyone that I know. It is plainly clear that Apple has removed functionality from the Podcast application and it certainly isn't the first time they've done this. My guess is that there is some plan to force users to use some subscription based application so that we can pay for something that used to be free.

Just updated and found this thread because it happened to me - hope it gets fixed - if not I'll be ditching apple podcasts application - there are plenty of good alternatives. One helpful point - in the 'cache' folder if you view 'as icons' and group by 'date added' it is a bit easier to work out which podcast you are looking for...

After a while of just using the cache folder (not even checking if a fix has been made), I now find it more useful & straightforward. Here is why:

The MP3 player I use is a basic Sandisk clip jam. After moving from iTunes to Podcasts I found that I could only copy one podcast at a time to my player, otherwise podcasts would get corrupted - so while playing podcast A, parts of podcast B or podcast C would 'interupt'. You could see the copy process was a) create folder b) copy files to folder c) repackage files/folder into a single mp3 entry. Somehow trying to copy more than one podcast created some sort of issue (threading or otherwise)

Anyway, copying multiple files from cache is a simple file copy and none of the corruption issues regardless of the amount of files copied. Faster as well!

It is not easier, and all of the file names have been changed to random gibberish. Apple needs to fix this immediately. I've been an Apple user since 1990 and recall Apple users being extremely enthusiastic about the Apple brand. Most of my friends are graphic designers, video editors, and music producers. All continue to use Apple because they are tied to the Apple ecosystem but, and I say this without exception, all are also extremely disappointed in the direction Apple has moved. It used to be true that Apple just worked. Now they make arbitrary changes for the sole reason of giving their employees a justification for remaining employed. Rather than improving their operating systems they make endless changes that destroy the user experience. Apple is making more money than ever, but their users are no longer even remotely happy with their products. Hey Apple, fix Music. Since, breaking iTunes into separate applications nothing works well and the user experience has become a daily nightmare.

There aren't good alternatives that sync easily with an iphone or an ipod. I want to listen to playlist daily in my commute to work. Note that the latest version of Music also deletes playlists every time I open it. So every day I have to recreate new playlists.

mixing... not missing

It's a terrible development! Will it be fixed?

Why should I spend time renaming files? Apple needs to fix this.