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iTunes thinks I am not subscribed to podcasts that it downloads for me anyway.
I've gone to the Genius bar twice and called Apple Support once to resolve this problem. The last visit to the Genius Bar took almost two hours. One Genius worked with Terminal and file checking and read and write privelege. The other worked with settings in iTunes. Everything on my Mac is current (although this problem is old).
Here's Details:
When I look at "My Podcasts" in List mode, they all show as not subscribed, and list the last podcast received (often "Today"). If I right click on the podcast, and look at settings, the "Subscribed" button is locked to off. If I go to the store and select the podcast and tell it to subscribe, the button stays saying "subscribe".
Every morning I open this view. Every week or two, one podcast has a "!" next to it - iTunes thinks I haven't played a podcast in a while (but shows that I played one I downloaded yesterday). Sometimes a podcast that I know I should have received doesn't show up, but refreshing it will get it to download.
I have one podcast that I can't delete by right clicking it. That option isn't in the menu.
The other thing I do every morning is manually tell iTunes to update every app that it thinks needs updating. This is despite checking everything in preferences that should keep things current.
We noticed today something today that is odd.
In my /Users/HBrazee/Music/iTunes/Podcasts folder are three podcasts that I haven't subscribed to in over a year.
But there are a bunch of podcasts (including current ones) in
/Users/HBrazee/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/
It's almost like every podcast I listened to got loaded as music.
After I do this, I switch iTunes to "Music", and go to a smart playlist that only has Plays is 0, with live updating.
When I have "Podcasts" in the drop down menu at the top, this playlist shows up twice, but when I go to music it only shows up once.
Then I play what's in this podcast. If I have just bought a music album, it will play all of the unplayed songs. But it won't play any podcasts unless I click on a podcast to tell it to play (then I manually tell it to play the next podcast).
I never listen to podcasts on my phone nor pad. My wife sometimes listens to my podcasts via family sharing on her Mac.
I've gone to the Genius bar twice and called Apple Support once to resolve this problem. The last visit to the Genius Bar took almost two hours. One Genius worked with Terminal and file checking and read and write privelege. The other worked with settings in iTunes. Everything on my Mac is current (although this problem is old).
Here's Details:
When I look at "My Podcasts" in List mode, they all show as not subscribed, and list the last podcast received (often "Today"). If I right click on the podcast, and look at settings, the "Subscribed" button is locked to off. If I go to the store and select the podcast and tell it to subscribe, the button stays saying "subscribe".
Every morning I open this view. Every week or two, one podcast has a "!" next to it - iTunes thinks I haven't played a podcast in a while (but shows that I played one I downloaded yesterday). Sometimes a podcast that I know I should have received doesn't show up, but refreshing it will get it to download.
I have one podcast that I can't delete by right clicking it. That option isn't in the menu.
The other thing I do every morning is manually tell iTunes to update every app that it thinks needs updating. This is despite checking everything in preferences that should keep things current.
We noticed today something today that is odd.
In my /Users/HBrazee/Music/iTunes/Podcasts folder are three podcasts that I haven't subscribed to in over a year.
But there are a bunch of podcasts (including current ones) in
/Users/HBrazee/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/
It's almost like every podcast I listened to got loaded as music.
After I do this, I switch iTunes to "Music", and go to a smart playlist that only has Plays is 0, with live updating.
When I have "Podcasts" in the drop down menu at the top, this playlist shows up twice, but when I go to music it only shows up once.
Then I play what's in this podcast. If I have just bought a music album, it will play all of the unplayed songs. But it won't play any podcasts unless I click on a podcast to tell it to play (then I manually tell it to play the next podcast).
I never listen to podcasts on my phone nor pad. My wife sometimes listens to my podcasts via family sharing on her Mac.
