Podcasts Synced to iphone 5 from itunes not Showing up in Podcast app, but can find with Spotlight Search??

Try setting them to media type podcasts? I actually had to set the folder they were in to podcasts as well. It worked fine. Tho it is hit and miss on new downloads. Some auto transfer fine, others I have to go in and fix.

So frustrating. C'mon apple.

wakazashi wrote:

Bug report site? Is that the apple developer website or something anyone can access to report on?

Use this link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Alzoo wrote:

The problem is in the new podcast app, I only have one podcast with one title listed, (the newest one) all the other podcasts & titles are not shown anywhere.

I too have the problem with speeches that I want to listen to as podcasts. I too changed Media Kind to 'Podcast' and Genre to 'Podcast' to no avail.

Only a single episode shows up in the Podcasts APP, even though the 'On This iPhone'-list in iTunes tells me all episodes are on the iPhone............. The podcast app doesn't show all of them................ 😮

How to get the Podcasts App to show all media files labelled as podcast?

Yeah, I did that thanks. ➕

So something weird happened... I recently had my phone stolen. Got the new phone. Restored from iCloud backup (thank god I'd left it as default sync to Cloud, it had a month's worth of family photos and video I thought were gone), and everything is working fine when it comes to the iPhone side of the podcasts and syncing from iTunes.

iTunes on the mac is of course still having problems with the occasional podcast episode not downloading... but it seems strange that different hardware and same backup works just fine.

Your suggestion worked for me Gary - Thanks!

Great! Odd how it works for some and not for others though...

I will download a podcasts from the web. i.e. hr 1 & hr 2. I use a MP3 tag editor to tag them as podcasts, etc.

I add them to my itunes library and then sync my iphone. Most of the time only hr 1 will show up on my phone's Podcast app even though when looking at the phone through itunes I see that both are on the phone.

Solution: Remove the Podcast app from your phone and then reinstall through app store. open podcast app and now both show up. Don't understand why it does this and it ***** to have to reinstall the pod app but thats what has been workking for me until apple wants to fix it.

You will need to make sure that you have Podcasts app

Everyone

please read this thread by WHoit

Can't sync podcasts ios7.0.3 - terrible

His response on the Oct 25, 2013 6:35 AM gives you a workaround to add addtional tags to the files so they appear in the apple podcast app? either do that or download SpeedUp Pro

I've copied below his instructions.

1) Download and install Mp3tag - it's a free Tag editing utility

2) Using Mp3tag, open the podcast file or directory with the old podcasts

3) Select 1 or more podcasts in the list and then 'Extended Tags' (right click or View -> Extended Tags)

4) Add the following tags and values if they don't exist:

a) tag=COMMENT ITUNPGAP value=0

b) tag=PODCAST value=1

c) tag=PODCASTURL value=<use the actual URL i.e. http://sawbones.libsyn.com/rss> (you can use fake ones)

d) tag=PODCASTID value=<any value as long as it's the same for all related podcasts i.e. 'Sawbones'>

5) Save the changes

6) After saving all the new tags, re-add the podcasts to iTunes and everything should work properly.

The only problem is that you have to do this for every podcast downloaded from any source that is not iTunes.

Warning: If ITUNESPODCASTID is not unique you'll only be able to play the last synced file, and it will maintain the first synced file's tags.

Surprisingly this worked!

My podcasts were mp3s downloaded from website since iTunes didn't have all the podcasts listed. Only changed the Media type: Podcast at first to put it in the itunes podcast.

I also had some extra steps since it didn't work initially.

1) Computer) Highlighted all Podcast I wanted to synch, changed Media type and Genre to Podcast (resynced but didn't work)

2) Phone) Settings: General: Usage: Manage Storage: Podcasts <- deleted all the data for podcasts

3) Phone) Podcast app: Manually deleted all podcasts

4) Computer) itunes, uncheck manually sync - apply changes.

5) Comp) Check sync and what podcasts I wanted

6) Comp) Sync

And it worked!

Hopefully this continues to sync. Thanks Gary, my days of frustration have been lifted.

Glad it worked for you.

Gary

Hi All

Final update,

You need to add the the following extended tags to your MP3 files if you want them to be treated as a real Podcasts in the Apple Podcast app. This can be done for your existing recording, lectures, radio shows, etc (The only thing I haven't figured out is if you want to add more files later onto the same podcast)

a) tag=COMMENT ITUNPGAP value=0

b) tag=PODCAST value=1

c) tag=PODCASTURL value=<any URL will do i.e. http://url.com/rss>

d) tag=PODCASTID value=<word/phrase+incremental number>

little explanation,

c) As the files won't be downloading from a website, this reference does not need to be valid

d) This value needs to be unique for each file, I tried just adding 1,2,3,4,5,etc) that didn't work and I could not see all the podcasts titles. After testing it a few times and looking at other real podtcast files (like TWiT) this ID was like a path & filename, the word/phrase was the same however the filename changed as its reference or filename number was incremented, so I did something similar. I used the same word and incremented the number for each tag in in each file. EG MP3 recording01,MP3 recording02,MP3 recording03,MP3 recording04,MP3 recording05,etc I was then able to see all the titles (47) listed inthe podcast.

Hope it helps.

Alzoo

That link to Apple Support is worthless.

Over 40,000 people have visited the Apple discussion forums regarding PODCASTS not showing up on an IPOD even though they DO show up in itunes on a PC. Yes, there are some work arounds for certain situations, but why doesn't Apple fix the App?????