Why am I getting a popup window asking me to login to mevio?

I am having the exact same problem on my 15' Macbook pro.

Just randomely started June 9th.

Yep. Me too.

Seems mine is trying to download a podcast I recently found "Thrilling Adventure Hour". Can't see why. REALLY hoping someone chimes in and has some information on this one.

Can't back up phone or iPad without a fix!

Yep this is happening to me too. I would like to know what podcast I need to discontinue so this stops comming up.

It's happening to me as well on a Windows 7 pc.

Looks as if mevio.com has shut down. Any feed you picked up through that site will be invalid. You'll need to track down the website of the podcast's producer to locate an alternative feed.

http://podcasternews.com/2014/04/10/mevio-pulls-the-plug/

tt2

Were that possible, or at least a reasonable investment of time, I'd do it. But I'm a podcaster who follows many podcasts. And if I can't start iTunes, I can't locate the culprit. I can't even see the full list b/c I can't scroll. And I'm seeing things at the top of the list that aren't in my iTunes library.

Curiouser and curiouser.

However, I did try starting iTunes with my shift key down.

That (finally) let me open the podcast list and delete everything.

Which stinks, but there it is.

Now, of course, my iPhone sync is flawed (registering 2000 songs after a sync when I'm telling it to sync 0). I'm trying to clear the phone's memory since iTunes keeps telling me there's no room on my phone.

Don't know if it's related.

Very curious to see if the shift key thing works for anyone else.

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Well unsubscribing each show rather than deleting would have been a less dramatic initial response, if slightly more time consuming, particularly if there were downloaded episodes that you had yet to listen to. You could then have re-enabled each working feed. Do you have a backup you could restore? There can't have been that many feeds that used that service can there?

tt2

I'm so glad it worked, AntBee2!

Please let us know what your affected podcasts were. Who knows;, we may all be subbed to the same thing!

Honestly, Turingtest2 (love the name, btw), if I hadn't wasted all my available time this morning on figuring out a work-around I probably would have unsubbed. But I was out of time and furious.

So.

Deleting it was.

I honestly have zero idea how many of my feeds could have been on mevio. Some went back to 2006. One of the benefits of iTunes was not having to pay any attention to any of that--which is why so many of my listeners (esp those who've been with me since 2006) who aren't Mac people still listen via iTunes/iPods/apps.

I don't know.

It seems to me that a patch from Apple pinging all Mevio feeds to freeze them would have saved an awful lot of people an awful lot of hassle.

It's not like this is the only thread noting this issue.

Can't say I know enough about how it works under the hood to make any useful suggestions, but it seems that apart from serving as an initial index from which people might subscribe Apple don't have much to do with the process. iTunes gets the data from an rss feed which could be served from anywhere. If the feed goes down iTunes says something like 'There was a problem downloading <Podcast Title> - The URL "<Feed URL>" could not be found on the server.' In this case mevio.com have closed their site and password protected access to it which is tripping up iTunes. However there are legitimate password protected feeds so this of itself shouldn't really have caused iTunes to lock up.

tt2

Simple workaround for me was to cancel the dialog (appears others might be unable to do this), then I unsubscribed to podcasts I wasn't getting recent updates on then did a refresh - dialog didn't reappear which meant one of those was the culprit. If you get the dialog again then repeat the process until the dialog stops appearing. If you had the patience you could unsubscribe a few podcasts, refresh, then repeat if you're still getting the dialog. I suppose if you were unable to cancel the dialog you might try opening iTunes with the shift key held down, unsubscribe all your podcasts, then re-subscribe a few at a time, then refresh, then repeat.

I went through all my podcasts and any that had a small ! beside them, I unsubscribed. It took a long time, but I'm getting fewer of the login pop-ups.

I've been getting the same error. I subscribe to only a few podcasts and found that it is "The Art of Photography" podcast. I confirmed this by a Google search, which turned up the result "Mevio is canceling The Art of Photography". So, there you have it. If that doesn't fix it, not sure what the issue is, but I deleted the podcast and haven't seen the error since.

I guess Mevio probably makes several podcasts, so I guess it's possibly they're cancelling more than one podcast if there is some sort of business model change.