Podcasts.app grouping all files with Media Kind manually set to podcast together?

I can confirm what that the fix does work. The latest update to the podcasts app appears to have even made this worse if you can believe it so this fix was definitely needed.

The grouping of all the files together was annoying, but I could work with it. I tend to manually download all of the files for a podcast and start from episode 1 so this was hitting me a lot. However, on my new iPhone 5s when I synced one of these shows I found that they all got grouped as a single episode! Worse still, the show description didn't match the show being played. For instance, I synced 5 episodes of one show, I saw 1 episdoe in the app and it said it was episode 22 but when I started playing it I found out it was episode 26.

I just applied the fix for this show and now I see all of the episodes that I've downloaded and they're grouped properly. Next onto fixing my other shows.

No problem! Glad it worked out for you all.

It's a mixed bag actually, but I don't think it's the fault of your fix.

Podcast syncing just seems to be completely broken lately. My first upgrade to iTunes 11 blew away 90+% of my podcasts in iTunes because it only synced what was currently in the Podcasts app, with no accounting for manually downloaded content or anything that was in iTunes but not synced due to space concerns. Since then I've refused to turn on the iCloud sync until I see consistent reports that it's working without issue.

Unfortunately, regular syncing has gotten downright awful. Even after fixing the id3 tags I still randomly have these podcasts collapse up into a single episode, that won't even play sometimes. Similarly, I have several items that magically reset to partially played, even when I mark them as unplayed on both my iPhone and iTurnes, then sync.

Worse, it seems like even though I have it set to only sync the 10 least recent unplayed episodes I often see played episodes left on my phone and new content doesn't show up.

The assumption from Apple seems to be that you will always sync all content, even if you don't have space for it (my Podcasts collection is currently 136GB, even with a 64GB iPhone 5s good luck) and that you'll be using iCloud sync for everything. Oh, and that nobody manually downloads Podcast content.

I have no problem with the concept of iCloud sync but it needs to work properly, it's been promised since the Podcast app came out and even when iTunes 11 claimed it added it there's still massive issues that just scream of a rushed release and a lack of testing. In the meantime, don't break the manual syncing that was working flawlessly until iTunes 11.

Now even if you keep all manually added podcasts in one folder they only show up as one cast, either video or audio. Play order can be anything and no longer keeps to last place even if the file is selected that way.