After iTunes 11.4 install no podcasts will download

Hi Jeff ,

If you have issues with downloading podcasts you may want to use the steps in this article for troubleshooting -

iTunes Store: Can't download or play a podcast

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2313

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.

Best,

Brett L

If you'd read his actual message, rather that just typing a canned response, you'd see that refreshing the podcast does nothing. The only way I can get new episodes to show up in iTunes after the 11.4 update is to individually unsubscribe and then resubscribe to each podcast. Only then am I able to actually see or download the latest episode.

I think this might be a fairly new thing. I have stopped receiving updates to my subscribed podcasts this week. I tried unsubscribing and subscribing but that didn't work. I really get annoyed when "helpful" people send vanilla links which don't even address the issue.

Just to clarify for any people who might be reading this the problem is as follows:

1) For a period of about a month every podcast has been showing exclamation marks and has stopped updating until you manually click on the exclamation mark.

2) Starting September 26, 2014 all podcasts stopped updating altogether.

3) Attempted clicking on the refresh button for each and every podcast

4) Ten times

5) Unsubscribed all podcasts

6) Resubscribed all podcasts.

7) Unsubscribed all podcasts, shut down and rebooted computer

8) Resubscribed all podcasts

9) Unsubscribed all podcasts, shut down computer, power cycled ADSL modem

10) Resubscribed all podcasts

Result: Not one podcast is updating. At all

Same problem here.

I also tried the subscribe/unsubscribe bullsh1t, with no success.

Thought maybe trying to sync my iPod would initiate a download, since it would try to sync the latest podcasts. No luck.

This has to be affecting many users.

There's more issues with this latest version of iTunes as well. Even though I have specified that played episodes not be deleted, they're still being removed from my computer every time my iphone syncs up.

This discussion forum is actually sponsored by Apple so hopefully before long someone knowledgeable will weigh in on this and give us the magic key combination or ritual sacrifice to make the podcasts start downloading again. What surprises me is how few people seem to be experiencing this. Is it just us or are most people so blasé that they just take it on the chin?

Hi Jeff, Are you getting podcasts now?

I just checked iTunes yesterday and it downloaded one podcast. Today I am getting two more. I don't know why they are dribbling in like this for me, usually I get the whole list refreshed each week. I wish I could tell you that I did something to make this happen but it seems to have started spontaneously.

Still broken for me.

Same for me - iTunes no longer updates Podcasts. I have to switch to Show: Feed, then for each feed select all the new podcasts, right-click and Save Episode. Very tedious.

This started working again for me today.

Unfortunately I don't have any helpful information to share, because I didn't do anything - it just started working again.

(I restarted, but I had already tried that previously, so I don't think that had anything to do with it)

I have a different but related issue: I am running iTunes 11.4 on an iMac (Mid 2007) and OS 10.7.5. the podcast section of the iTunes Library often freezes up completely. Sometimes it is the spinning color wheel, sometimes it is just totally nonresponsive. Either way, I cannot do anything to change my podcast subscription/update/settings issues.

I am considering upgrading to Mavericks, but I am afraid that might introduce other problems considering my iMac is over 7 years old.

Hi Todd, I have a "heritage listed" mac as well but the good news is that when I moved to Mavericks it actually sped things up. I think they do a better job of handling the memory than they used to. Having said that I took my iMac to the local Apple store and got extra memory put in just for good measure.

Bottom line: Don't be afraid to upgrade to Mavericks. You might be pleasantly surprised.

I just upgraded to Mavericks. haven't done much else yet, but I did launch iTunes to check the Podcasts section. I am still having the same problems in hte Podcasts section of the Library - slow response, eventually freezing up completely. I have to force-quit iTunes, then restart, the quickly switch back to the Music Library before it freezes up all over again.

long/short - Mavericks did not solve this problem.

I have the same problem! SO ANNOYING. Podcasts on iTunes have been broke since 11.1, always some new problem every time!! This time it's that they won't auto download.

Having same problem here; Win7 machine, most recent iTunes. I have had SOME success by unsubscribing and resubbing, but the next day when I check, no additional podcasts are downloaded.... I thought that maybe I had messed up some parameter during the update, but I see I am not the only one having this problem.