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

Apparently you can't remove any podcast episodes from the List view (unless you delete the podcast entirely, or unsubscribe from it). The iTunes designers, for reasons that escape me, no longer want us to do that; basically the List view seems to be permanently on "Show All Available Episodes" mode. All we can do is hope Apple considers this a bug and undoes it in a future update.

My advice: forget about the List view in iTunes's Podcasts pane. Instead use the "My Stations" or "My Podcasts" pane. They're not as good as List view was 48 hours ago, but they're better than the List view today.

I'm having the same problem. In addition to not being able to delete podcasts, hundreds of old podcasts from every site in my iTunes, including Apple Keynotes dating back to 2007, have propagated my podcasts lists. I even tried unsubscribing then resubscribing but it still does the same thing.

This indeed is something that totally doesn't suit Apple. To block users from actually using the software as they see fit. I would expect this from Microsoft, yes, but Apple? Come on guys this is an error to be solved asap.

Try this alternative: under playlists, click on podcasts and use the list view.

I have the listview as standard, and that is exactly the issue. Until the iTunes update I did yesterday, I was able to delte the podcast entry that I had listened to. Now I can delete the file, but the entry remains in the list without the option to delete it. Apple feels that it is best that I cannot decide how I want to use the podcasts. Possibly to promote theis NSA-supported iCloud.

interesting... I do think that it is an unintended error by Apple's programmers. Right clicking on one of the podcasts entry's there is an option to "show old podcast entry's"... but I guess that this should automatically switch to "hide old podcast entry's". Unfortunately it doesn't. There is only to show old podcast entry's... something that iTunes aways does anyway...

Didn't anyway check this software before releasing it?

That's helpful for me too. Thanks very much.

Near as I can tell, the show old episodes toggle doesn't toggle. We see all of them and for some subscriptions, that list is LONG. The ones with the big blue dot next to them are the ones that are downloaded. When and IFF they fix the show old episodes toggle, I just hope that it shows what I want it to show.

It absolutely should NOT take over an hour to figure out how to use this again.

I have a smart list I use to get the list of podcasts. That still has only the ones on my machine, thankfully. I sort that by date and that mostly works. I would LOVE to sort by two parameters rather than just one. In other words, I want Science Friday to appear roughly where it should cronologically but in the order broadcast. They use the track number but the time stamps are not in order. I guess I want it to pay attention to the day but not the time but I can't do that. I move my podcast to a dumb playlist and put them in the order that I want to listen them.

Apple needs to survey how people actually USE their program but getting ideas from people other than internal to the company is an anethma to them.

As you said, delete is no longer available in list view. However, if you choose the "My Podcasts" tab, you can delete the podcasts....not ideal, but better than keeping the long list.....

This is really awful, and as a software developer on Mac/iPhone, I find this kind of flagrant disregard for legacy behavior quite obscene. Had SJ still been alive, he'd have rejected this sort of "oh, we haven't changed it in a while, so let's do..." sort of changes.

Apple Devs: Changing major interface functionality for "the sake of it" or just because "it'll look cool" is not cool!

Return to basic interface fundamentals of "don't change it unless fully justified (and passed by product/program management to ensure your customer base wants it).

One of THE fundamental tenets of the (much loved these days) Agile "mentality" is communication with your customers to make sure what you're deliver is waht they want and not what you want!

It looks to me as iTunes product managment blew it here: Get back on track please!

Now isn't this annoying. Thanks for the info.

Have to agree with all the comments. What are Apple thinking about. I agree there is a work around but that is not the point. The list view is most convenient for editing as when synching with the ipod it does not always delete episodes that have been listened to automatically so it has to be done manually.

Oh, honestly. Being able to delete a file is a pretty basic task and now being told we can't do it is ridiculous. Thanks for the workaround and all, but if I'm done with the file, I want it off my hard drive without having to wade through file folders and unsorted lists via Windows to find the exact files to delete. The delete functionality needs to be restored so we can keep our libraries organized!

This is a really, really bad design decision. There used to be 2 separate states: 1. not downloaded, & 2. deleted. Apple has seemingly decided to collapse them into a single state. This is really, *really* irritating.

When I'm trying to catch up on a show with a backlog, I was downloading a few shows, syncing to my ipod, listening to them, and then deleting them as "done with that", and going on to the next ones. Now, my whole podcast library is a mess of "did I already listen to that or not?". This is really, really bad behavior, Apple.