Issue with podcast v2.0 app seeing synced podcasts

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Issue with podcast v2.0 app seeing synced podcasts

Hi Everyone,

I would be extremely grateful if someone could explain an issue I am facing with using the new Podcast v2.0 app on my recently upgraded iphone 4S IOS 7.0.4

I am using iTunes 11.1.3.8 on a windows 7 x64 machine. I have lectures, speeches etc (which I like to listen at 2x speed) that are in mp3 format from different websites etc that I download to my PC. I add them to iTunes and change the "Media Kind" from Music to Podcast within iTunes, I have no problems applying this process, the categories & titles appear in the podcast menu and are synced perfectly fine onto my iphone 4S IOS 5.0.1. I was naturally using the standard music app to listen to the podcasts and I was happy.

I have now updated my iphone 4S to 7.0.4 and have added the podcast app to listen to the podcasts. I do exactly the same process as I have detailed above, I have no issues, I can even see the numerous titles in their seperate podcasts listed under the podcast menu under my iphone in iTunes - so they have been physically synced over to the iphone. 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. If I listen to the only title available to the end and then resync my iphone, I realise that the actual title played was the oldest one in iTunes. (not the newest as listed in the app) When I listen to the same & only listed podcast in the app (always the newest one) it is actually the second oldest title that is playing (according to iTunes)

So obviously I assume the podcast v2.0 app is a lot stricter with or it needs additional requirements to be applied to an mp3 file in order that they are show up correctly in the app apart from simply changing the media kind in iTunes (which worked perfectly fine before in IOS 6 & below)

My questions (sorry to take so long to get to them) are, does anyone know what those requirements are? can I apply them to the mp3 files within iTunes or do I need to use 3rd party software to modify/add them so the podcast app will see these manual podcasts?

I hope someone can you help me out with this one as I really enjoy listening to podcasts and feel that my user experience would be greatly hampered if the limit to the availability of podcasts is only to those who have published on itunes or offer subscriptions. The ability to add podcasts manually and have them synced via iTunes is always available so surely it is only a matter of properly formatting, labelling and adding the correct tags to the files so they show up in the podcast app.

Thanks in advance for your help

Alzoo

(P.S Somone mentioned in aonther post changing the genre to "Podcast" as well, will check that out and get back to you all)

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Nov 29, 2013 7:20 AM

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Answer 1

Alzoo Author

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Nov 30, 2013 2:11 PM in response to Alzoo

To confirm, changing the genre to "podcast" has no effect on displaying the entire list of titles or other podcasts in the podcast app. I beleive the app to have a serious bug.

I can see all the titles in spotlight search, I can search by title name or even artist name and they appear, so clearly they are available in the iphone. Another major issue is I can't play them in the podcast app. I can select one from spolight and the podcast app loads however it always play the same title that is playing, it won't chnage to the title I selected.

Another oddity (bug) is I can delete the one and only title that is listed in the podcast app and it will delete it - the title name does not change however the podcast itself changes to the next one on the list. I can keep deleting them one by one. the title remains the same but the contents of the podcast is the next one after next one as it goes down the list. So the app is not able to pick up & display the numerous titles even though it can play them.

I can change the media kind to either Audiobook or iTunesU and the mp3 files are successfully listed in both the music app or ITunesU app respectively and I have no issues seeing them all, playing them or syncing them. only issue with itunesU is can't increase to 2x speed, it says only at 1x

There really are some major flaws with the the podcast app v2.0. I will add a new ticket to the apple bugreport site for developers concerning these issues.

Ta

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Answer 2

Dec 2, 2013 9:38 AM in response to Alzoo

I'm having the exact same problem. Some podcasts aren't showing up, or show up as multiple options, with none of them working. Then I added a bunch of podcasts, but it only recognizes one file of many for me. I wish they would stop messing with a format that didn't need fixing.

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