WTFF?

[av8rmike]

I do not understand how these stupid podcasts work. I subscribed to three different ones last night through iTunes, downloaded them, and synced them to the iPod. I even checked several different times in the iPod menu that there were six items under the main podcast menu on the iPod. I was all set to listen to them here at work, when I go into the main menu and it tells me "no podcasts". They were just there last night, why the hell would it delete them? I thought Apple products were supposed to be user friendly. =(

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[demonlord-lover.livejournal.com]

I got a panasonic mp3 mp4 and video player rather than mess around with iTunes. The digital music players that aren't restricted to one site or another always work better from what I've heard, and I haven't had any complaints about mine yet.

[hirsch222.livejournal.com]

I let iTunes automatically download podcasts, but I manually control putting them on the ipod. My ipod is only 4GB so I like to directly manage what I keep on there.

If the "Podcasts" directory is empty, try looking under "Songs" or "Artists" (if you know the artist tag of the podcast). I think that sometimes my ipod "forgets" that my podcasts should be listed under "Podcasts," but the files are still on there. It may have some flag that de-lists podcasts if I've already listened to them.

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

I eventually found them under "Recently Added", so the files weren't actually deleted. I know I didn't listen to/watch them in between downloading them and sitting at my desk at work.

[violaman.livejournal.com]

Try using the Search function to find them. But even if you've listened to them for a second (which clears the little dot that indicates whether the podcast is unplayed or not), the iPod should still show the podcasts in the correct location through the menu. I've never had that happen before and I've been listening to podcasts for years on two different iPods and with 2 different OSes.

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have no idea why it would clear the Podcasts directory, but I did eventually find the files under "Recently Added"... but only under that playlist. They're not under artist, album, video, or any other directory, and I didn't play the files between last night and this morning.

[violaman.livejournal.com]

My podcasts show up "recently added" and under the "Podcasts" heading in the main menu. How did you get them onto your iPod? Did you check the "Sync" box in the Podcast tab when you had your iPod connected (and then resync the iPod)? Or did you just click and drag them onto the iPod? I sync them using the "Sync" checkbox and select "All unplayed episodes." I've never tried dragging them onto the iPod but that looks like it would work, though it might product unusual results (like what you saw).

Don't give up on podcasts because of this. Some of them are really interesting. I love the handful of blues podcasts I listen to each week. I save one for Thursday morning so I have something to listen to while I'm shlepping the viola on the subway.

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I haven't played around with Podcasts yet. Maybe I'll start doing that and will have insight after that. :P