On itunes 11.1, can you delete podcast episodes? All old episodes appear in the list, and right click/delete is not an option.

I really have to weigh in on this thread. My routine for downloading podcasts has gone from acceptable to completely unusable.

When i view a podcast in list view, it will show me if I have not downloaded any of the podcasts (used to be an arrow, now it is a cloud symbol). Occasionally podcasts would screw up and change an entry. To avoid haveing the indication that i need to download episodes, but still avoid needing to download the duplicates, i just delete the duplicates and move on. This is now completely broken in the new itunes. I now do not know what podcasts have new episodes, or just duplicates that i can ignore.

I also want to delete some of the podcasts older episodes once I am done with them. Again, it is now difficult to know which podcasts I have deleted and wich ones are new!

Do Apple employee's monitor these forums, if so I sincerely hope they see this thread and do something about iTunes, cause I have purchased my first android device last week and although I enjoy the apple eco-system, the recent bricking of my apple tv, and now the huge inconvenince with itunes, I am seriously concidering swapping my iphone 5 for a nexus 4!

Please Apple, SAVE MY ITUNES!

Hi JRD. I cannot find the playlist button for podcasts. Any hints on where I can find it?

Thank you.

Matt.

Great answer! Is this forum sufficient for Apple to monitor and make the change, or do we need to post this "bug" somewhere else?

On iTunes the Poscassts are under the Playlists and is most likely the last item on the left side panel unless you have an iTunes Artwork Scrren of Voice Memos.

Gentlemen,

The biggie here is that the show old episodes button does not work. No matter what, we are sing all episodes in the list view. To most of us, that is seriously annoying. They put a big blue dot next to shows that are on our local machine. We 'can' delete those shows and the will be gone from the local machine. But due to the broken show old episodes button, we still see it. There is no blue dot next to those entries any more because of the deletion.

I have the feeling we will all be happier once show old episodes is fixed. I believe this is a mistake due to that still being there. If they wanted us to always see the entire rss feed, that item would not be in the menu.

I think one doesn't necessarily have a playlist of podcasts by default. I didn't, but I was able to create a smart playlist with the rule "Media Kind" "is" "Podcast".

The whole thing is pretty annoying, however you can actually still delete the podcast data for specific podcast episodes from itunes in podcast list view for podcasts that are actually downloaded. Doing so presumably expunges the data and then just changes the display so that the podcast episode then has a download icon (assuming it's still available for download). If the podcast is no longer available, I guess it should disappear from the list view entirely.

I'm guessing that as a previous poster pointed out this is truly a bug with the "Show/Hide Old Episodes" feature and not a design decision. In the new iTunes, the menu item always says "show" and never changes to "hide", which would presumably allow you to hide that information. Why bother to have that item at all if it is a no-op? Further evidence that this is a bug: In the "My Podcasts" view you can use "Show Old Episodes" from the pop-up menu to show the old episodes for a given podcast, but if you do so there is no way to hide them again - until you click on a different podcast then back or switch to a different view then back again, after which the old episodes are miraculously hidden again.

I'm not convinced that this is strictly an issue of Show/Hide Old Episodes. I guess it depends on how 'Old Episodes' are defined. If it means an episode that I have previously listened to, then it would do what I want. But on some podcasts I download and listen to the episodes out of order.

What I don't want to see are:

• Episodes I have already listened to
• Episodes that I have looked at and decided I'm not interested in

This was easy to do until the latest release. And I will be grateful if we can get something equivalent back.

I've seen some suggestions about switching to the My Podcats and My Stations views, but these views don't allow you to view the play count for podcasts.

I use the iTunes as a catch-up service for a number of podcasts I subscribe to, and I noticed that iTunes is showing a play count for some podcasts I had previously deleted and removed. PLEASE can we have the functionality of iTunes 11 back.

If I wanted to go catch up an old podcast, I would not mind using a reset function to get the full list of available podcasts, but the functionality as currently provided is impossible to use.

deleted- nevermind ..That didn't work. Back to scroll ..scroll...scroll.

A couple of other issues I'just just noticed with the latest version. It seems to "undelete" podcasts I've already listened to. This is especially the case if you have listened to the last in a series of podcasts.

I would really like to know if somebody has a simple method of just listening to a podcast episode just once on an iPod and then deleting them when they have played WITHOUT the podcast reappearing at some point in the future. I've not seen any solutioin to this basic requirement.

My other concern is that iTunes is showing a number of podcast episodes which are marked as not-downloaded, but the played count is non-zero. How do you reset the play count for these episodes?

Finally, my list view is now totally useless, for some of the podcasts I subscribe to have other several hundred episodes going back over 4-5 years. I am not interest in scrolling through this history to check that I have listened to the latest episode.

It seems that the only way to comment on this is to say "I am mildly upset by Apple changing the listing of old podcasts". My detailed critiques have both been moderated.

I can only imagine that Apple are fully aware what is being said on this issue and are choosing to ignore it.

This is my third attempt to post on this subject.

If this one doesn't stay up then I must assume my comments are not appreciated. As a customer of Apple that makes me very disillusioned indeed.

Addendum. Everytime I log in to iTunes now it tries to download 97 episodes of old podcasts. Sorry I can't express my emotion at this new improvement to the program.

The best suggestion I've heard (i.e. since it appears Apple staff are not that interested in this problem) is for all interested parties to submit iTunes feedback: Menu Bar > iTunes > Provide iTunes Feedback.

Only by a few thousand folks expressing their displeasure at the inane decision to change iTunes to behave this way might it get fixed!

Apple: NB:

1. There are bugs as reported above in this new "feature" behavior.

2. Why on Earth would Apple devs assume the iTunes user community would want to download hundreds of titles (just the XML/HTML/binary alone is a lot) when many episodes were already viewed or unwanted?

3. Many of us outside the US (me being one) exist on metered ISPs; we only get so many MB/GB per month for a certain price and as such we either have to pay more for overages or worse, we get slowed to a crawl!

Besides the above alienate points, the decision to change iTunes to download anything not explicitly asked for by the user of iTunes (either by selection for via default changes) is just ... plain ... stupid/inane/idiotic/bad-customer-relations!

Problem solved! I reinstalled 11.0.5 (only because my iPhone won't function with 10.7 anymore) and my podcast list problems are over. When Apple decides to solve the bugs built in to 11.1 I'll consider upgrading again, but not until then.

I want to do the same. But I can't find the download for 11.0.5 on the Apple website.