davidcurrie

Q: Max of 50 items display in many collections for many iTunes U schools

An increasing number of iTunes U collections will not display more than 50 items - this seems to be the case for many schools - I also noted in a PBS list today, they were maxed out at 50 episodes in their Nature display - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nature-pbs/id203180821?mt=2 - I have some e-mail responses from Apple with no end user solution so I take it that we are not overlooking a button or anything that will help display the remainder of the episodes. My gut hunch is that podcasts/collections that historically had a customized theme are now limited to display of the first 50 items - although the old customized themes were dropped and I can't be certain of this.

Yale - American Revolution - for example, this collection has the plain background and displays 55 episodes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/american-revolution/id495056024

Boston College - Literature - limited to 50 episodes - grey background (formerly a customized theme?) - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/literature-art-cultural-studies/id400532483 ?mt=10

Well - maybe not - here is a collection from Stanford limited to 50 episodes with the white background - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/continuing-studies-public/id385643787?mt=10

Oxford - Building a business - limited to 50 episode display - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/building-a-business/id381702699?mt=10

Some of our professors report that their collections alter between the limited 50 item display and the actual (higher) number in the collection - as they move from machine to machine - but we have not been able to replicate this - for example - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/histology-podcasts/id384931290?mt=10

Stanford - some of Stanford's collections show the grey background - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/how-i-write/id385404247?mt=10 for example - and appear to be limited to a 50 item display.

Harvard - most of Harvard's collections are OK but not all - https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/science-and-cooking/id399227991?mt=10 - maybe it is just older collections that are affected by the 50 episode display limit.

I keep hoping we are missing something very simple - anyone else getting complaints yet?

Posted on Sep 10, 2015 5:26 AM

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    davidcurrie davidcurrie Sep 10, 2015 5:30 AM in response to davidcurrie
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    Sep 10, 2015 5:30 AM in response to davidcurrie

    Links in the above message will actually result in display of all episodes in your browser, but then when you try to follow the links to get episodes beyond the first 50 episodes - then the problem recurs - ie. view in browser and see all episodes, view in iTunes and you are limited to the first 50 episodes.