iTunes v11+. Podcasts skip/jump during playback or do not download.
Since the iTunes v11 with the new format for displaying and interacting with podcasts, most or almost all podcasts that do successfully download are corrupted. They will skip, stop and jump to the next in the list, or play portions of another podcast in my list of podcasts. Or they will just not download and show an encircled ! in my list. This playback symptom is most acute on my iPod classic 160mb, but even on my iPhone 4 (showing more resilience to the symptoms) random skipping to the next podcast on my list occurs. I completely reset my iPod, no avail. ALL podcasts downloaded previous to this version operate cleanly.
A) The new interactivity with podcasts ***. If I highlight multiple podcasts to "mark as played" they get marked as played then unhighlighted so then I must reselect them all to delete them. This is a new feature. And don't even try to interact with podcasts if others are downloading, because they become unhighlighted as soon as a download of some other podcast is complete. I rate the new iTunes podcast interactivity a complete fail.
2) I cannot download iPhone app updates through iTunes. I receive the err=8008 on every app I try to update. I can successfully update my apps through iTunes Store on my phone. iTunes does not recognize that I have updated the app and continues to show me that I have apps that need updating.
Any suggestions on wth is going on with any of these issues would be greatly appreciated.
iPhone 4 iOS 5.1.1 (no I will not update, I got suckered in with my iPhone 3G to iOS 4. Never again.)
iTunes 11.1.2.32
Windows 7 Pro SP1