Delete old podcasts?

*** please someone tell me how to delete old podcasts in the new iTunes bollocks there is no ability to highlight and delete! How can this be?

Which view are you looking at? In iTunes / Podcasts / List, there is no way to remove the items - if you mark them as played, the file will disappear from your computer, but the item will still be in the Lists pane, with a cloud icon beside it.
The "My Podcasts" or "My Stations" panes seem to be more useful at this point.
Now, if you're trying to stop them from downloading again: don't delete the podcast file in the first place. Instead, mark it as played - and that should make it disappear. If you delete it without playing it, iTunes for some reason thinks you must want it back. (Note that deleting on the iPhone still does what you'd expect it to do - delete the darn file! - but in iTunes it doesn't seem to work.)

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Cannot delete old podcast episodes after updating to ios 8

The usual way of manually deleting old podcast episodes, swiping right to left and then selecting the red delete button, appears to be no longer available. Do I need to fix something or is there a new way of doing this function?

Have you tried swiping left to right?
Try going to Settings>General>Usage>Podcasts and select the the podcast you want to delete and tap edit in in upper left and delete the podcast.

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I cannot delete old podcasts that I downloaded directly to my iPod Touch through its Wifi connection. Manually deleting them in iTunes doesn't work--my laptop doesn't recognize that they are on my iPod. What should I do? I want my memory back!

I have the same problem. I usually can delete by swiping but for some reason the delete button doesn't show up on this podcast.
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How do I delete old podcasts and sync new podcasts without getting duplicates

I have an iPod Nano. I've enjoyed downloading podcasts and listening to them while walking my dog. I want to delete the podcasts I've already listened to and download only those I haven't heard. If I delete old podcasts, will iTunes be able to identify and download only podcasts I haven't listened to?

You don't have to use the Podcasts app. If you delete it and sync to iTunes on your computer via USB the podcasts will appear back in the Music app. You can delete them there.

ITunes 11.1 won't let me delete old podcasts

I know it's been covered in many other posts, but want to make sure Apple hears this.
ITunes 11.1's new podcast section insists on showing me years of old podcasts I've already listened to and want to delete and never see again. This is not a feature. This is a bug. You are making my life less happy. Change it right now.
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Oh how I agree. Most agrivating thing in the world. Must be an employee getting even with apple. Don't see how anyone who uses this program could have let it slip through. Doesn't anyone at apple actually buy and iphone? Sort of like when Ford president looked out the window and he only saw toyoto cars in the employee parking lot. Simply can't believe this.
Otherwise one other small complaint. The backgrounds are too white and hurt my eyes. How about a softer text background color please.

How do i delete old podcasts on my iphone

I have old podcasts on my iphone. Apple, the intelligent company that they are, have removed podcasts from the music app. Now I can't delete these old podcasts because the new "podcast" app doesn't recognize them. How can I get rid of them?

You don't have to use the Podcasts app. If you delete it and sync to iTunes on your computer via USB the podcasts will appear back in the Music app. You can delete them there.

ITunes won't delete old podcasts

I've seen other people mention this topic in other threads, but haven't seen any satisfactory resolution. For several months now, I've had a problem with iTunes where it won't auto-delete my old listened to podcasts like it's supposed to.
I have the "Podcasts" preferences set to check for new episodes every day, download all available episodes, and keep all unplayed episodes. When I listen to them on my iPod nano (first gen) and sync with iTunes, the little blue bullets disappear from the podcasts I've listened to as expected. However, the listened to podcasts don't delete themselves. It's a real pain to have to manage this by hand, and this is exactly the kind of thing that Apple is supposed to be making EASY for us.
iTunes also has a problem where old podcast episodes are randomly getting re-downloaded.
Both of these problems are very annoying. I'm really disappointed that Apple has done such a poor job of this. I realize this is turning into a gripe session, but seriously, I have three pretty major problems with podcasting using iTunes and iPod which Apple should really fix because I doubt if I'm the only one.
1. Old podcasts are not getting deleted as they should (yes, this used to work, but it hasn't for some time).
2. Really old podcasts (months old) randomly re-download themselves.
3. The iPod still insists on sorting podcasts with the newest first rather than giving you an option to play from the oldest unlistened episode. Many podcasts go in sequence, so it's a pain to have to make a custom play list every time I want to listen going from oldest to newest.
That's it.
PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.5 GB RAM

YES!!! These are precisely the three issues I'm having with iTunes! I'm using an 80GB iPod Video, and I'm almost exclusively listening to podcasts (yay NPR!). They take up a lot of space on my hard drive because they're not auto-deleting. They delete off of my iPod ok (though it'd be a cool feature if it didn't delete unless it was listened to through the end, but that's nitpicking), but they pile up in my podcasts directory until I delete them manually, even though I have "keep new episodes" selected.
And please, allow for podcasts to play in chronological order on my iPod, oldest on top! I think I remember reading somewhere that having them appear the other way is actually touted as a benifit?
As for the random download of old episodes, I've had that, and it's annoying, but an easy enough thing to delete or skip, and mark as played on the mac.
I had the lack of updates problem for a while, I inexplicably lost Marketplace for several months, but now it's back... Those last two problem aren't Apple's fault, I suspect; just a result of several pieces to a puzzle needing to be exactly right in order to work correctly.
Thanks for re-introducing this topic, here's hoping for a solution!
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Auto-delete old podcasts in iTunes 12

In iTunes 12, how can I set things up so that it will auto-delete old podcasts

Thanks for the input! I right clicked one of the disappearing episodes, but there was no "Save Episode" on the drop down menu. There was "Remove From Saved Episodes" option.

Itunes latest revision how do I delete old podcasts?

Used to select items, right click mouse, select delete, and done. Now, right click mouse, no delete choice, what's up?

Hi Tim4909!
You should follow the instructions linked below for deleting music in iTunes to delete the podcasts you no longer want:
Music
Open the section below for the device you are using.
iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Mac or PC
Before you delete, find out if you'll be able to download the song you deleted again (it depends on where you live). To delete a song:
Launch iTunes.
From the Library pop-up menu, choose Music.
Click Songs in the navigation bar.
Click the song you want to delete.
Press the Delete key on your keyboard.
In iTunes 11, the album cover art will remain visible, but a cloud icon will appear on it to allow you to download the item again (in countries that support this).
Note: If you didn't purchase a song from the iTunes Store, you won't be able to download it again for free from iTunes in the Cloud. You might want to back it up somewhere on your computer.
How to delete content you've downloaded from the iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, or Mac App Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5772
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

Front Row still displays deleted old podcast episode

I have subscribes to ScreenCastsOnline podcast, and one of the episodes was an audio update. It is only since I checked in iTunes today that I have found I don't actually have that episode in iTunes anymore, and it is definately not in the Podcasts folder within the iTunes folder. Yet Front Row is saying I still have it, and it has a blue ball next to it to say it hasn't been played. If I try to play it, Front Row tells me it can't be played (obviously because the file is no longer there).
I have tried unsubscribing to ScreenCastsOnline and making sure there is no trace of it in the iTunes folder, and yet the one episode is STILL listed on Front Row!!
How can I remove it?

Update:
Firstly, there are actually TWO old podcast episodes total that are not on my Mac anymore but are listed on Front Row. I removed any trace of all Podcasts in iTunes and the podcast folder disappeared in the iTunes Music library folder, yet two podcasts remained in FR.
Secondly, I opened the iTunes Music Library.xml file with Text Edit, and found entries for both of these podcasts within using a search. I have removed the keys associated with both and did a search again to confirm they had been removed. I rebooted and tried FR again, and the podcasts are STILL there!!! What else can I do, PLEASE????

Can't delete old podcasts

i have an ipod 30gb. for some reason i cant get rid of a few pesky (npr) podcasts. i have listened to them months ago and they do not appear on my itunes listing -- but are on my ipod podcast menu. i've tried deleting/unsubscribing to the podcasts to no avail. this only happens with some of my podcasts -- not all. do i need to re-set my ipod to get rid of them?
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on whether my music is gone
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Identifying iPod models
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My podcasts don't load correctly. I have to choose each one individually to update whereas in the old Itunes I could just hit the refresh button and they would update. And worse, I can't get rid of the ones I have already heard.
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Apple tech guys, please STOP mucking around with things that are working just fine and screwing them up.    You are making me go closer to dumping my Apple stuff and go back to Dell.

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Deleting old itunes podcasts

It appears that with the release of Itunes 11.1 I no longer have the option to delete old podcasts. When I right click I "occassionally" get the option to delete the podcast but even then it simply chnages it's status and shows it as redownloadable. This functionality can't be right. Can someone tell me if in fact it is the case or if I'm missing something obvious.

Hi, turingtest2, (Alan?)
I've been searching the archives for the old iTunes-11.1-deletes-all-my-podcasts solutions, and you seem to have the best handle on what's going on.
No matter what I try, certain podcast episodes are automatically deleted from my hard drive, with no evidence of them ever being there, and the cloud download symbol appears next to the episode in iTunes. Whether I am subscribed to the podcast or not. If I download the episode again, it's only a matter of time before it's deleted again.
So, I've followed your advice of recovering all the old ones from time machine backups, and storing them in a new folder. I've also reimported them back into iTunes (only to find the same episodes are only in the cloud). I've since converted all the spoken word podcasts to audiobooks, and the music-y ones to music, leaving the genre as podcast.
Now, what i'm proposing - and hopefully it's a short term solution until Apple realises that what they've done is rapidly losing them customers - is to write a small script or Automator thingy such that when iTunes downloads a new podcast episode, it is automatically converted from a podcast to a music / audiobook.
That way, all new / old podcasts can be kept away from the abominable iTunes podcast set up they've recently ruined.
If Apple ever fixes the issue, and allows you to keep old podcasts as podcasts, without the threat of having you stream them from the cloud, one can simply delete the script and convert everything back into podcasts.
My problem is that I haven't the first clue on setting this up.
They call me the ideas man...
Cheers,
Ed

HT4623 When trying to sync my iphone 5 I continue to get a message that there is not enough room to sync. How do I remove old podcasts to create room

When I try to sync my podcasts to my iphone 5 I keep getting a message that I do not have enough room. How do I create more room by deleting old podcasts?

i used to get that problem with my old iphone!
you just need either to delete apps, videos, and also podcasts until it alows you to sync.
hope this helped you.

How Can I retrieve old podcasts I deleted by error?

Hello,
I uses the last version 7.2.2 on MacOS.
I deleted a few podcasts from an album I subscribed to.
I know that the podcasts I deleted are still available on the publisher's site.
Until version 7.1.... It was possible to retrieve old podcasts again by using the command "retrieve old podcasts" (or something like this) (just below "refresh album in the contextual menu). But it seems that this useful command has been removed.
Is there any way to do it anyway?
Many thanks in advance for any help.

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