iTunes 11.1 podcast section wont let me remove old episodes list

diesel vdub wrote:

What is set for the download settings of those podcasts in iTunes? All episode? New Only? X number of episodes?

The only available "Automatically Download" options are "All", "Most Recent" [my selection], and "Off"; there is no "New Only" option.

Looks like it's fixed in 11.1.1 (on Mac OS).

What seems to be the consensus on 11.1.1.11? I don't sync my Podcasts with anything, so just need to know if it's back to normal in iTunes while in List mode?

Yes, list mode has defaulted to not showing expired, not downloaded episides. You can however view these if you wish, add those that you want, then hide the others again.

Still not certain what the state of play is regarding sync podcast subscriptions but that shouldn't be a worrty for you.

tt2

I'm still finding that old podcasts that I've marked as played, and have left in the list, are still getting downloaded again and again, day after day. One particular group, mark as played, has reloaded twice today already..

I'm experiencing a lot of weird things with the Podcast Player itself on my 4S. It's incredibly slow, to the point of being non-responsive at times. This never happened on iOS6.

The other weird thing is that previously if you plugged in headphones or an AUX jack while audio was playing it would play through either the headphones or the AUX speakers. Now it appears to be playing through the iPhone, but no audio is going through the device until I hit Pause/Play or the 15 second rewind button.

On top of that, I've noticed that unplugging headphones, or hitting the 15 second rewing button at times will rewind several minutes instead of the 15 seconds. It's hard for me to replicate this willingly, but it has happened over a dozen times since I dowload iOS7.

Now that iTunes 11.1 has been fixed, the next step is fixing the Podcast player. Considering the only reason I got the iPhone over an android was to have a single device for my phone and podcasts, this is incredibly annoying.

For me it's not fixed: when I update a podcast in list view and click on the cloud, all the episodes are downloaded, new and old. In iTunes 11.0.5 (I've reverted again) only the non played ones are downloaded.

I'm beginning to hate Apple and these erratic interface issues.

David Losada wrote:

when I update a podcast in list view and click on the cloud, all the episodes are downloaded, new and old.

That is what is supposed to happen. If that is not what is desired, stop clicking on the cloud.

That is what is supposed to happen?

This was not the case in all previous versions of iTunes. Up until 11.0.5, clicking in the arrow besides the podcast name in list view downloaded only new episodes. The deleted ones didn't even appear. You had to expressly tell iTunes to show the old episodes.

And if I don't click on the podcast cloud, I have to clic on each new episode cloud. Therefore, what until 11.0.5 could be done with a clic, now requieres many.

I've returned to iTunes 11.0.5 again. But I want to buy an iPhone 5S and it needs iTunes 11.1 at least. I can wait a couple of months, but for me, podcasts are more important than the iPhone, and I prefer to keep iTunes 11.05 and buy a SONY or Samsung.

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Clicking the cloud download arrows causes iTunes to download things, either individual episodes or all that available if if you click the top line of the group that represents the series rather than a specific episode. You can refresh your view of the feed with the refresh arrow at the top left of the window, or the refresh button at the bottom right. Each podcast will download new episodes according to its settings. You can now stream cloudy episodes by double-clicking on the title instead of the download link, so you can listen to/watch episodes without necesarily downloading them to your computer/device.

tt2

turingtest2 wrote:

Clicking the cloud download arrows causes iTunes to download things, either individual episodes or all that available if if you click the top line of the group that represents the series rather than a specific episode. You can refresh your view of the feed with the refresh arrow at the top left of the window, or the refresh button at the bottom right. Each podcast will download new episodes according to its settings. You can now stream cloudy episodes by double-clicking on the title instead of the download link, so you can listen to/watch episodes without necesarily downloading them to your computer/device.

tt2

Thanks, turingtest, but this was not the behaviour until 11.1. In iTunes 11.05 was "all new that's available". "New" meaning non played non deleted episodes. In iTunes 11.1.1, everything is downloaded. There's no longer a way to tell iTunes "download everything from podcast XXXX that I haven't seen before".

If I wanted to download old episodes, I had to select an option in the contextual menu to show them before clicking the arrow.

iTunes 11.1 displayed all episodes that were still on the feed regardless whether they had already been downloaded, listened to and then deleted, or deleted without being downloaded, and provided no mechanism for deleting unwanted episodes from view.

iTunss 11.1.1 has fixed the issue where old episodes are listed by default, and allows unwanted episodes to be deleted. If the old episodes are visible and your settings are to download all then they will all be downloaded. Change the settings and/or delete any old episodes that you've made visible again, and you should get what you want.

tt2

There still seems to be a podcast-handling bug in iTunes 11.1.2.31 that didn't exist in slightly older revisions (11.0 and prior, I think). Before they put the cloud icons into the Podcasts section, if you downloaded a podcast and then got rid of it by pressing Del (or Shift+Del in a playlist), iTunes was smart enough to know that you didn't want that episode, and it wouldn't bother you with it again. Now it's extremely "dumb" in this regard: If you download an episode and then delete it, it will download the same episode again when you hit the refresh button! Ugh. The only good way to get rid of an unwanted episode, as far as I can tell, is to mark it as played and then refresh the podcasts. This should work if you've got "All Unplayed Episodes" in the "Episodes to Keep" setting.