Podcasts no longer show in iPod player

I have been downloading both audio and video podcasts directly to my 1st gen. iPad via iTunes Store app for some time. Since the recent update, the podcast episodes appear to download, but do not show in the iPod player. I am getting apps to download from the App Store and they install just fine, but no podcasts from iTunes Store. I'm stumped. Any ideas?

Thanks Chris, you gave me the clue that I needed to figure it out. I had previously deeted the Podcasts app but somehow, it came back on my phone. Deleting it *again* restore the Podcast choice in the Music app.
I wonder if an app upgrade in ituens on my Mac triggered re-installation some how.

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I can't seem to play any podcasts at all in iTunes 7.0.2, although other items in my music library play just fine.
On the video iPod, no podcasts appear in the podcast playlist even after the iPod is "updated" with new episodes downloaded from the iTunes Store.
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Sounds like lots of people are having this problem. Including myself.
The podcasts are on your Ipod but for some odd reason they do not show up when you are connected to Itunes. If you open a new playlist for the Podcasts you can see them BUT, if you delete them they are deleted from the playlist BUT NOT from the Ipod itself. No one has an answer to this problem!!!
Sorry this hasn't helped much.
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Which iPod shuffle model do you have? This document shows the four types.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1719
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4322
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You could try making a small change to the podcast title and re-submitting it. (You can change the title back once it's been accepted).
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I had a number of playlists in my itunes. synching w/ipod was never a problem.
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Thanks. OK, I read that other post, but it's only causing me to have more questions. So I can't get that itunes-created list back... the one that I deleted. That's Ok, because all my other personal playlists are still there. Also, the problem was not that my ipod capacity was smaller than the amount of songs in itunes. The problem was that my pc hard drive was too full. I have since freed up space on my hard drive.
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Greetings!
I've several video podcasts I'm subscribed to that no longer sync to the iPod no matter what I do. It seems to have started at the last OS update, but I'm not sure. I can drag and drop the things onto the iPod in iTunes and the sync settings are to sync the latest 5 of all podcasts, but they still won't go to the iPod.
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