iTunes - 841 podcasts?!

The Black Oil

I was updating my podcasts this morning. Went into a few, right clicked to say 'show old episodes' (to download a handful, but not many), then up on the left menu under library it said I had 454 podcasts. Looked at some other podcasts and again showed some old episodes, now it's saying 841 podcasts. Most of the time I've only about 100 that are actually downloaded or that I'm working through. Is it now thinking that because I'm looking at the list of what's available that's the actual total?

Running iTunes 11.1.1 on Mountain Lion.

Lennyzip

The Black Oil wrote: »

I was updating my podcasts this morning. Went into a few, right clicked to say 'show old episodes' (to download a handful, but not many), then up on the left menu under library it said I had 454 podcasts. Looked at some other podcasts and again showed some old episodes, now it's saying 841 podcasts. Most of the time I've only about 100 that are actually downloaded or that I'm working through. Is it now thinking that because I'm looking at the list of what's available that's the actual total?

Running iTunes 11.1.1 on Mountain Lion.

Just unsubscribe to a few of the podcasts , it will list all the ones you didn't download either . Should go bk to normal after that .

Sad Professor

iTunes doesn’t really handle podcasts properly. It only half syncs with iCloud which seems to cause problems if you use the iOS Podcasts app. I’ve stopped using both.

The Black Oil

Yeah, I'm not subscribed to many to avoid the the auto downloading thing of stuff I don't want, but I dip into the 'show old episodes' option to see what's there. The number's just a bit nuts. This is just for an iPod Classic.

The Black Oil

Updated iTunes to 11.1.2. Now it shows over 2,700 podcasts, I think because it's showing all available episodes in each one I have, even if I no longer subscriber to them. The Get Info option is now fixed (re selecting all to bump the volume), that didn't work as well in 11.1.1.

jack presley

There are loads of complaints and angry posts on the Apple Support forum about how podcasts are handled by the new version of iTunes

The Black Oil

Ah, well I'm not at the anger stage yet. :pac:

The Black Oil

Well, it's getting annoying now. I said this elsewhere that it keeps downloading podcasts I've listened to. Listen to them commuting, delete from iTunes, but it grabs them again. I thought it might be something to do with listening within iTunes itself, so I moved the time to 0:10 seconds from the end, let it play out and then delete, but no joy there as it seems to download again. I found a big thread on this on the Apple Support Communities site. Hope they sort this.

The Black Oil

Fixed in 11.1.3? Hah, nope.

The Black Oil

Is anyone aware of a solution for this nonsense?