Broken Podcast Link in iTunes

It seems like Apple is shooting themselves in the foot with their current failure to solve the updating problem of podcasts links. Thousand of my listeners have been forced to move to other podcasting software to gain access to recent podcasts and once they move from iTunes it will be much more difficult to get them back. If mine is typical of podcasts then Yahoo and iPodderX must be gaining crucial market share. My Brasscast podcast may not be one of the top listened to podcasts but to my music lover listeners it is and out of necessity they will take their NPR and other podcasts with them.
Peter

christopherfrommünchen wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem with moving my entire media folder to an external HDD. I did everything as described in the Apple support page, in a nutshell merge my media folders, define a new location (external HDD) move the folders and organise Media Folder.
You should not move anything yourself. iTunes does it when you File > Library > Oganize library - Consolidate.
What Apple support page did you follow?

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