iTunes only showing 20 episodes for many podcasts

It's a bug which has arisen in the Store. Apple are aware and are dealing with it. It affects only the Store: subscribers in the iTunes application and the Poscasts.app on iOS still see all the episodes.

Rob Walch, who works for Libsyn and so has contacts inside Apple, let me know about it. Apple have a system status page at

https://www.apple.com/uk/support/systemstatus/

but you will see it shows all clear whereas the problem is in fact ongoing - so it's not a whole lot of use. I'm afraid the only way you're going to know when it's cleared is to keep checking someone's podcast in the Store.

As a libsyn customer it is always advised to check out our support status blog.

Per this issue here is our post on it.

http://support.libsyn.com/2015/06/25/change-in-itunes-show-page-display/

Regards,

Rob W

libsyn

Well it is now July 12 and they haven't dealt with the issue yet.

Any idea of when we can expect a complete listing of podcast episodes again?

It is the 27:th of September and it is still showing.

I call bull-feces on Apple working on it!

My own podcast is now showing all 36 episodes in the Store. Can you link to a podcast which is showing only 20 when there should be more?

We've done over 70 episodes and only 20 is showing both on iTunes and in the podcaster-app.

https://itunes.apple.com/se/podcast/atlas-pony-podcast/id859268741?mt=2WWE

Your podcast shows episodes 54 to 73 inclusive - as you say, 20 episodes.

Your feed is at http://atlasponypodcast.podbean.com/feed/ . This also contains only episodes 54 to 73, so it's not a fault in the Store: it's simply reading what is in the feed.

The most likely explanation is that Podbean is, as many podcasting methods do, limiting the number of episodes which appear in the feed. When the limit is reached, older episodes are moved off the feed as new ones are added. There is usually a setting somewhere to increase the number.

It was fixed the end of last week.

up to 300 episodes will now show for shows - based on what is in your feed.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/today-in-ios-podcast-unofficial/id252820844? mt=2

You can see 290 episodes listed for my show.

Rob W

I can only see 12 episodes on itunes of my 25 episode podcast

https://itunes.apple.com/se/podcast/fan-of-history/id958058555?mt=2

This is not an iTunes problem. Your Store page shows episodes 14 to 25. Your feed is at

http://magicgatheringstrat.com/category/FoHcast/feed/

This also contains only episodes 14 to 25. You have generated your feed in Wordpress, and as I indicated above many of these podcast creations programs or services limit the number of episodes shown in the feed. Though I have no experience of WordPress, poster seogroup reported that this could be increased in Dashboard > Settings > Reading > Syndication Feeds Shows the most recent ____ Items. shawngordo's post here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7317665?answerId=29261836022#29261836022 gives a slightly different version of the same process.

When you have a problem it's best to start your own thread rather than adding onto an old one - you have a better chance of getting noticed: I did see your post in this case but it's easy to miss these add-ons.