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

There is no need to be rude.

😕

The sound of "Doh!" was me slapping my own forehead for not paying attention as to which forum this thread was in. I'm involved in parallel threads in the Windows forums.

tt2

Oh, I get it, please accept my apologies.

Mary MOUSE Villa

"until they all have a home"

<Personal Information Edited By Host>

I asked the hosts to remove your phone number from your posts. You should not post too much personal info on a public forum.

tt2

Thank you very much.

Mary MOUSE Villa

"until they all have a home"

<Personal Information Edited By Host>

You've posted your phone number again and I've asked the Hosts to remove it, again. In your own interests please stop doing this.

done. thank you

Thanks. 🙂 I found and removed the podcast that was causing my problems.

This works for me. Cheers nice work. Had problem editing hosts .This helped for vista, if your as clueless as me http://geekswithblogs.net/thibbard/archive/2006/12/13/changingyourhostsfileinvis ta.aspx

I am still having trouble finding the errant podcast, as I have a ton of them in my library. Any ideas?

Here's what I did after I found out that Mevio no longer exists. (You can check Wikipedia or Google it.)

1) In iTunes (podcasts list) I did a search for Mevio, and some Old Time Radio Comedy podcasts showed up. I had never subscribed to these podcasts, but had downloaded 7 about 5 years ago.

2) I copied them to a new folder on my desktop (but not the mother folder).

3) I deleted the podcasts from iTunes, along with the mother folder. I checked and they were all in the Trash, and I verified that my new desktop folder still held my 7 original podcasts.

4) I dragged these 7 podcasts to the upper side of the sidebar and they were re-imported into my podcasts in a "new" folder, Old Time Radio Comedy. There is no longer an i button for information (that previous gave the Mevio url).

My podcasts have survived, and I no longer get that annoying log in window 4 times a day! Whew!

Editing the hosts file - I just sent www.mevio.com to 0.0.0.0 (which is obviously an invalid IP) seems to have fixed things.

Thanks to those who have posted various work arounds.

Pretty poor by iTunes that a dead feed site can so completely freeze and lock up the system.

Luckily after waiting for about ten minutes I was able to locate the offending podcast.

A couple things Apple could do to help with this problem are (1) instead of "this podcast" in the alert, actually name the podcast, because a domain alone isn't enough when it's refreshing all of them, and (2) reverse the new policy to refresh all podcasts including those that are unsubscribed.

It used to be enough to just unsubscribe to a podcast to cease communication with the server. Now we have to purge them entirely, including back episodes we wanted to save. If you have back episodes of, say GeekBrief.tv, a formerly mevio podcast, that you want to keep, you may be able to convert them to another type of media file like Music or Books. Maybe do the same for all unsubscribed and discontinued podcasts.

That Apple also removed the buttons in the list indicating which podcasts were unsubscribed will make this more difficult. You'll have to highlight them individually to discover their status at the bottom of the window.

I'll second G. James on all points. I am having more than enough problems with iTunes that aren't Podcast related that I am trying to troubleshoot without iTunes immediately refreshing all the podcasts because I needed to reboot and rebuild my Library. I am so sick of the beach ball of doom.

I can't seem to copy it wwithout messing up the formatting on my iPad, but I posted a workaround in another thread that fixes things without having to delete anything. (They should absolutely do the 2 things you posted)

Re: which podcast is triggering the message "to access this podcast you need to login to"