Subscribed to multiple old time radio podcasts for years. Suddenly, iTunes is telling me I have to sign in to something called "mevio" in order to access my podcasts.
What is this? What do I do?
Thanks,
George
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
It means that the feed hosted at mevio has been removed - I know that some of the Old Time Radio ones were moved (to libsyn) recently, so that may be it. If you resubscribe via itunes or by grabbing the xml feed from the website, it may work. As a stopgap, if you unsubscribe from the podcast, it will at least stop the constant popups.
I'd help more clearly but unfortunately I'm having the same problem right now but I have absolutely no idea which podcast is making the request, and as far as I can tell there's no way to find out. Good old itunes.
Well, my point, really, was that not a single podcast in my iTunes had Mevio in the URL. Nevertheless, I'm sure one of the old Podshow podcasts was the culprit.
In other words, having a list of URLs did me no good anyway.
Same problem here... This morning I backed up my iTunes library, then removed all of my podcasts. When I restart, the annoying mevio pop up disappears.
They used to have a homepage. I wonder if the service has been shut down or something. My father had a podcast on the site run by Adam Curry for a few years but had to give it up for health reasons… Despite having no new episodes for over 18 months and NOT being subscribed anymore, I am getting this error/notice popping up too. I can't seem to get it to stop or to get rid of it… It's really driving me nuts (but it's not killing my iTunes app at least).
Thanks. That worked for me.
WeyrleaderZor wrote:
They used to have a homepage. I wonder if the service has been shut down or something.
As discussed earlier, the service has shut down and going to any of its URLs brings up the spurious login page. Please see my post of June 11 on page 2.
The easiest way to deal with this is to edit /etc/hosts with vi, vim, pico etc and add a line in the file and alias mevio to your machine.
127.0.0.1 mevio.com
This will stop the popups and authentication dialogs and you can then go remove the subscriptions.
I can't even find a way to unsubscribe before the beach ball of death appears. Any suggestions?
Starting iTunes in safe mode by holding down CTRL+SHIFT as you launch it ought to work, but the suggestion above to patch your hosts file is also a good way to go.
tt2
To modify the hosts file you actually need to add this line:
127.0.0.1 mevio.com www.mevio.com
OMG, that worked, thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!
Mary MOUSE Villa
916-961-4535
"until they all have a home"
brianloomis
you say to add this line:
127.0.0.1 mevio.com www.mevio.com
But where do I add it?
Open the folder C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Double-click on the file hosts and choose to open with Notepad
Copy the following two lines and paste into the end of the file:
127.0.0.1 mevio.com # Podcast login patch
127.0.0.1 www.mevio.com # Podcast login patch
Then save.
tt2
Okay, call me stupid, but since I have a mac, I don't have windows, so I am not sure this will help me. But thank you.
There is no need to be rude.
Mary MOUSE Villa
"until they all have a home"
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what is mevio? Suddenly need to log into mevio to get podcasts. ???
