what is mevio? Suddenly need to log into mevio to get podcasts. ???

The public part of the mevio.com website got turned off yesterday. Any feed that was redirected through it would have been affected. It may not have been readily apparent that mevio.com was in the loop. There is no need to reinstall iTunes if this is your only issue, and it won't help.

tt2

Okay, new update:

I just launched iTunes for the first time since this morning early. This time I got no pop-up dialog from Mevio. But iTunes seems to crash every time it seeks podcasts. I launched once, no problems, hit the button to refresh podcasts, and got the spinning ball of death.

After forcing it to quit, I launched iTunes again and left it alone. It seems to have crashed on its own, presumably when it automatically tried to download new podcasts.

I tell you, iTunes is getting on my last nerve. I depend on my podcasts for the drive to work. Now I can't even get iTunes to keep running.

Help? Apple?

I found this note on the web regarding the mevio issue. I unsubscribed to all the OTR podcasts which stopped the pop-ups. When I resubscribe to the OTR podcasts, the same error occurs. So it isn't fixed yet.

A podcast by Humphrey/Camardella discovered by Player FM and our community. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or enter the feed URL into other podcast apps.

Important notice, shows hosted at Mevio will soon not work. I have created the same shows at Libsynpro which has been placed on iTunes. You will need to subscribe to the new shows. I am providing the RSS feeds for these new shows which has the show name, just look them up on iTunes. Sorry for the inconvenience. Here are the RSS Feeds;
http://adventureotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://dramaotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://detectiveotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://mysteryotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://thrillersotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://westernsotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://suspenseotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://scifiotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://comedyotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://horrorotr.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss
http://bigband.rnn.libsynpro.com/rss

It freezes before I can unsubscribe to anything.

Hold down CTRL+SHIFT as you launch iTunes, this should make iTunes open in safe mode from which you ought to be able to unsubscribe.

tt2

I had that problem too--the password pop-up would appear and itunes would freeze before I could do anything.

Here are the steps I took for a (temporary) fix:

(1) Uninstall/Reinstall Itunes

(2) Open Itunes (the reinstalled version did not immediately refresh podcasts, giving a brief window of opportunity for edits)

(3) Click on "Podcast Settings" (the gear wheel icon for any of your podcasts) then click on "Defaults": Turn off "Download Updates"--it will apply to all podcasts.

(4) Manually turn on podcasts. (Now you can leisurely experiment to see which podcasts are causing the problem or just use those that you're sure don't have a problem.)

I'm sure that there's a more efficient solution, but this approach worked for me.

I found you need to hold option + command for safe mode.

I also found which podcast was messing me up.

It was THE NOT JUST NEW MOVIES podcast, so if anyone has that it needs to be deleted. That solved my problem.

In my Mac's case, Mevio pop-up started freezing my MacBook Pro when I updated Safari to 7.0.4 on May 23, or iTunes to 11.2.2 on May 29. After I deleted the former version of The Art of Photography from iTunes on 16 June, My Mac looks OK, so far. The fromer version of The Art of Photography was provided by Mevio.

I had this problem as well. I couldn't fix iTunes because I couldn't even start it. I finally got it to stop freezing when I turned off my WiFi internet access, and started iTunes without it. Then I deleted the offending podcasts. Some of the problem ones were duplicated. I had tried all the fancy start keys and deleting and reloading iTunes, but it wasn't until I shut off the internet that I could get the mevio server to let iTunes alone. Now I can sync devices and everything again, after being locked out for a few days.

Thank you Rll_SB,

This must be my problem as well since I do subscribe to several OTR podcasts. I will try your solution.

Thanks again,

Frustrated

I deleted the old and new version of The Art Of Photography podcast and everything has returned back to normal.

The solution can be found here: Re: which podcast is triggering the message "to access this podcast you need to login to"

Boy, that was tedious. But the problem is now gone.

Today is the first time in two weeks I have had enough free time to sit down and pick through all my podcasts to check the URLs for Mevio-relatedness.

I copied the podcast URL for each and every podcast into a TextEdit file. Not a single one of them had the word mevio in the URL.

However, I took this opportunity to delete a bunch of podcasts that I have kept in my iTunes list, but have either unsubscribed or else the podcaster has long since quit updating the feed. It was a tiny bit emotional, since I was dumping podcasts by the original (or second-wave) podcasters from 2005, like myself. But I was cold-hearted about it, and I deleted everything other than my current podcasts (and the one I produced all those years ago).

Among those were a couple of Adam-Curry-produced podcasts from many years ago that did NOT have mevio in the URL. Nevertheless, once I dumped those, the problem seems to have gone away.

So I hope my own Mevio-iTunes nightmare is now over.

The real message I want to convey here is this: copying out the URLs into a text file and looking at them might well not do you any good at all. It might not be at all obvious what the offending podcast is. You may well have to simply dump those casts and then go look for them again in the iTunes store or on the Interwebz somewhere.

Sorry to tell you this after you spent ages copying each individual URL, but for other people: in List view, you can command-A select all podcasts, then right click and use the copy URL function, and paste a list of every URL into a text document in one step. Although the order seems to be a little screwy, so you may have to play a little hide-and-seek to find the offending podcast.

I was lucky enough that I did find one with mevio in the URL, and (fingers crossed) this seems to have fixed things.