{"id":7918,"date":"2013-09-20T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7918"},"modified":"2013-10-16T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:05:33","slug":"itunes-11-and-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/itunes-11-and-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes 11.1 and Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

It deletes podcasts<\/a> you wanted to save:<\/p>\n

First of all, it deletes your podcasts. If you’ve been downloading and saving podcasts – because you haven’t gotten around to listening to them, or just because there are some you want to save – you’ll find that most of your podcasts are simply gone.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

You’d think that if iTunes deletes your podcasts, you can get them back. I’ve been saving up the Prairie Home Companion podcast for years, and I have episodes back to 2007. Fortunately, these were not in my iTunes library, because after deleting the episodes from my Podcasts library, iTunes only shows me episodes going back to 2010 in the cloud. So if you have episodes of a podcast you want to keep, back them up, if they’re still in your iTunes Media folder, or if you have a backup; you may not be able to get them back from the Podcasts library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And prevents you from deleting podcasts<\/a> you wanted to clear away:<\/p>\n

Here’s one problem: you cannot delete old podcasts. If you do – deleting them, and their files – they still show up in the podcast list. […] These podcasts never go away. They’ll show cloud icons for you to redownload them as long as they’re still available from the iTunes Store. So if you have a podcast with lots of episodes, you’ll have a very long list when you look at it in List view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update (2013-09-23): Paul Hagstrom<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Podcasts actually got deleted from my Mac’s iTunes library after syncing w\/ iOS 7. All settings everywhere are keep all\/do not delete. Grr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update (2013-10-01): Andrew Pontious<\/a> also reported deletions.<\/p>\n

Update (2013-10-16): Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After trying to use iTunes 11.1 to listen to podcasts for a few weeks, I’m going back to Instacast for Mac and iOS, and I suggest you do so as well (see “Instacast for Mac Fills the Desktop Podcatcher Gap<\/a>,” 31 May 2013). Even after completely overhauling the way podcasts are handled, it’s obvious that Apple just doesn’t get it. Syncing is broken, iTunes doesn’t offer sensible controls for podcast listening, and the Podcasts app’s iOS 6 aesthetic looks and feels horribly dated.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It deletes podcasts you wanted to save: First of all, it deletes your podcasts. If you’ve been downloading and saving podcasts – because you haven’t gotten around to listening to them, or just because there are some you want to save – you’ll find that most of your podcasts are simply gone. […] You’d think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,224,30,32,112],"class_list":["post-7918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-itunes","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-podcasts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}