Issues in podcasts app

In general I like having podcasts in a separate app from music. Being able to manage subscriptions through the app is great. I also like
the visual style of the app quite a bit. However, like others here, I'm having some troubles with the app. They are:
1) Downloads stall on "Preparing to download...". Killing the app and restarting it doesn't help. Sometimes the download will start on its own,
other times I need to restart the phone before the download will work.
2) Sometimes podcast episodes that I've previously marked as played start showing up as unplayed. I'm assuming this happens when the list of episodes is refreshed. Its ver annoying to be told that you suddenly have 200 unplayed episodes. I'd love to mark them all played, but sometimes I have a handful which are legitimately not played. Losing the markers of which I've heard and which I haven't is very annoying.
3) You NEED to have a control to disable streaming over cellular. Especially since the app will automatically start playing the next episode, and streaming it if its not already on the phone. This will acrue massive data usage if you're not careful with it. I would actually prefer it if autoplay of the next episode was either disabled by default (like in iTunes on Mac) or at least optional. Sometimes I just want to get to the end of an episode and stop, and not play the first 10 seconds of the next episode then have to do some fancy dance to stop it, and return it to the starting position for next time.
4) The icons to pause / resume the download of episodes are strange. There's a square stop button to pause then a double-bar pause button to resume.
Why not standard play/pause buttons?
I realize this app is very new, and that there are bound to be growing pains. I appreciate the work you've put into it so far and I'm anxiously awaiting fixes for these. Thanks!

HHi,
can can I suggest you look at this thread and okay attention to the extra ID tags to put in place, especially podcastid
hope it helps
Podcasts Synced to iphone 5 from itunes not Showing up in Podcast app, but can find with Spotlight Search??
Alzoo

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Hi Everyone,
I would be extremely grateful if someone could explain an issue I am facing with using the new Podcast v2.0 app on my recently upgraded iphone 4S IOS 7.0.4
I am using iTunes 11.1.3.8 on a windows 7 x64 machine. I have lectures, speeches etc (which I like to listen at 2x speed) that are in mp3 format from different websites etc that I download to my PC. I add them to iTunes and change the "Media Kind" from Music to Podcast within iTunes, I have no problems applying this process, the categories & titles appear in the podcast menu and are synced perfectly fine onto my iphone 4S IOS 5.0.1. I was naturally using the standard music app to listen to the podcasts and I was happy.
I have now updated my iphone 4S to 7.0.4 and have added the podcast app to listen to the podcasts. I do exactly the same process as I have detailed above, I have no issues, I can even see the numerous titles in their seperate podcasts listed under the podcast menu under my iphone in iTunes - so they have been physically synced over to the iphone. The problem is in the new podcast app, I only have one podcast with one title listed, (the newest one) all the other podcasts & titles are not shown anywhere. If I listen to the only title available to the end and then resync my iphone, I realise that the actual title played was the oldest one in iTunes. (not the newest as listed in the app) When I listen to the same & only listed podcast in the app (always the newest one) it is actually the second oldest title that is playing (according to iTunes)
So obviously I assume the podcast v2.0 app is a lot stricter with or it needs additional requirements to be applied to an mp3 file in order that they are show up correctly in the app apart from simply changing the media kind in iTunes (which worked perfectly fine before in IOS 6 & below)
My questions (sorry to take so long to get to them) are, does anyone know what those requirements are? can I apply them to the mp3 files within iTunes or do I need to use 3rd party software to modify/add them so the podcast app will see these manual podcasts?
I hope someone can you help me out with this one as I really enjoy listening to podcasts and feel that my user experience would be greatly hampered if the limit to the availability of podcasts is only to those who have published on itunes or offer subscriptions. The ability to add podcasts manually and have them synced via iTunes is always available so surely it is only a matter of properly formatting, labelling and adding the correct tags to the files so they show up in the podcast app.
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(P.S Somone mentioned in aonther post changing the genre to "Podcast" as well, will check that out and get back to you all)

To confirm, changing the genre to "podcast" has no effect on displaying the entire list of titles or other podcasts in the podcast app. I beleive the app to have a serious bug.
I can see all the titles in spotlight search, I can search by title name or even artist name and they appear, so clearly they are available in the iphone. Another major issue is I can't play them in the podcast app. I can select one from spolight and the podcast app loads however it always play the same title that is playing, it won't chnage to the title I selected.
Another oddity (bug) is I can delete the one and only title that is listed in the podcast app and it will delete it - the title name does not change however the podcast itself changes to the next one on the list. I can keep deleting them one by one. the title remains the same but the contents of the podcast is the next one after next one as it goes down the list. So the app is not able to pick up & display the numerous titles even though it can play them.
I can change the media kind to either Audiobook or iTunesU and the mp3 files are successfully listed in both the music app or ITunesU app respectively and I have no issues seeing them all, playing them or syncing them. only issue with itunesU is can't increase to 2x speed, it says only at 1x
There really are some major flaws with the the podcast app v2.0. I will add a new ticket to the apple bugreport site for developers concerning these issues.
Ta

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Hi,
I wonder if someone can point me to the correct why to use this application with iTunes, the issues I seem to be having is i have deleted the appliction off the iphone and to try and get the list of podcasts back to the same as the PC. Do i now stop the iphone from Auto Downloadind and just let the PC handle the subscriptions, the reason i say this is that before removing the app the number of dublicates that i was getting within the app was eating all my memory on the phone.
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It may be that i need to tune off sync from within iTunes on the PC but again there does not seem to be anyt steer from Apple one way or another.
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One you delete the Podcasts app from your iPhone, restart your phone. You now should be able to play podcasts using the music app again. You will be back to the way you were under iOS 5.x, where iTunes on your computer downloads the podcasts, and you decide (using iTunes) which ones to copy to your phone.

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Hi,
I have several issues with the Podcast App.
- i cannot sync podcast that i have downloaded on my laptop using itunes to the iphone,
- when i download some podcast directly on the iphone, i cannot play them, i still have to stream them,
- i have uge memory issues and i think that the downloaded version of the podcast might be somewhere on the iphone, but cannot access / delete them (over 16 GO, i have more than 4.5 GO used for 'other', that are not related to anything...)
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I have a MSI 975X Platinum rev 2 mb with a e6300 processor overclocked to 2.24ghz.
If your CPU operates @2.24 GHz, it means that you increased FSB frequency to about 348 MHz.
To make sure there is no misunderstanding here, let me point out the following:
Memory frequency is ALWAYS linked to FSB frequency by the FSB/DRAM Ratio you can select in BIOS. If you select 1:1 for example, the BIOS will show that memory frequency is 533 MHz. This value however, only applies to the default FSB clock speed of 266 MHz:
266 MHz x 1 = 266 MHz (or 533 MHz effective DDR2-frequency).
If your system is overclocked, what counts is only FSB/DRAM ratio, not the memory speed displayed in BIOS. That means, if you set FSB/DRAM ration to 1:1 and FSB frequency to 348 MHz, your RAM will operate @:
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What are you talking about when you say, you can't make your RAM operate @800 MHz?
The BIOS does not offer a proper divider to get your RAM to 800 MHz @348 FSB clock speed to begin with.
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FSB=300 + FSB/DRAM ratio = 1.33
300 MHz x 1.33 ~ 400 MHz (or 800 MHz effective DDR2-frequency)
FSB=320 MHz + FSB/DRAM ratio = 1:1.25
320 MHz x 1.25 = 400 MHz (or 800 MHz effective DDR2-frequency)
FSB=400 MHz + FSB/DRAM ratio = 1:1
400 MHz x 1 = 400 MHz (or 800 MHz effective DDR2-frequency)
Use CPU-Z to monitor the DRAM frequency that is actually set if you are overclocking.

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When podcasts used to be part of the Music app, I LOVED listening to podcasts. I actually became information junky as the sacrifice of all the music on my apple devices. If I’m at home or away, I loved that I could seamlessly sync my podcats between my laptop and my apple devices. If a podcast was deleted from one, it was removed from the rest post sync. Also, I never used to sync all podcasts, only the ones that I had yet to listen. If one of my podcast subscriptions had nothing to listen to, then that podcast’s album cover did not appear in my podcast list. Why would they appear if there is nothing to listen to? I could plop my iPhone into my car’s doc station and continue to comfortably listen to podcasts for drives of any length without EVER running into any issues.
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Podcasts in the cloud? If I already have the podcasts downloaded in iTunes, all that I want for this Podcast app is to respect my previously downloaded apps an only display what I wanted sync’d from iTunes. I don’t like seeing podcasts “in the cloud”. This usually means that I am either playing something that I already deleted, unchecked or set as “played” with iTunes or I am streaming something that is already downloaded to iTunes. I DO NOT want to waste my Wifi service streaming something that is already downloaded onto (or deleted from) iTunes.
NEXT...Podcast Settings: Why am I able to go to settings to change some settings, such as “Sync Subscriptions”, “Refresh Podcasts”, “Auto-Downloads”, “Episodes to Keep”, and “Use Cellular Data”, but I don’t have the ability to change “Sort Order”, and “Play Order”? Most of my podcasts require that I listen to the oldest podcasts first, such as news articles or serial podcasts. This, having go to each podcast individually to make those changes...what a WASTE of time! Even worse is when there is an update to the app and I have to go into the each podcast again to change things to how I want them to be...yet again!
Sorry, this is long, but I am VERY passtionate about this. I LOVE listening to podcasts, but despise this Apple's Podcast app! ARGH! The only reason why I started using the Podcasts app is because IOS 7 removed this functionality from the Music app of my iPad Mini & iPhone. If the battery of my iPod Touch 4 wasn’t crap I would start using that again because it still has iOS 6.1.3, meaning the Music app still plays my beloved Podcasts. Sign...

I'm sorry to hear that.
I'm not affiliated w/ the developer, just a happy user that gave up fighting the apple podcast app a while ago. I used to have a bunch of smart playlists in itunes for my podcasts, and come home every day and pathologically synced my phone as soon as I walked in the door, and again before I walked out the door in the morning.
Since my wife was doing this too, we were fighting over who's turn it was to sync their phone.
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Setup a "playlist" in downcast (ex., "Commute") and add podcasts to that playlist. Add another playlist ("walk" or "workout") and add different podcasts to that one.
Set podcast priorities on a per-feed basis (ex., high priority for some daily news feeds, medium priority for some favorite podcasts, lower priority for other stuff). Downcast will play the things in the priority you specify, and within that priority, it will play in date order (oldest to newest).
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1. Forget synching with iTunes -- it's completely broken. I subscribe to the podcasts on iTunes but don't download on iTunes. Subscribing on iTunes is useful because it doesn't seem to "lose" episodes the way the Podcast app does, so when the Podcast app loses episodes (discussed below) I can still see them on iTunes so I can retrieve them again.
2. I subscribe to all my podcasts in the Podcast app. I set them to download automatically and keep all unplayed. I leave the sort and play options at the default of Sort Newest On Top and Play Oldest First.
3. I don't use My Stations except for On-The-Go when I want to listen to episodes from different podcasts -- just add each episode to OTG in the order you want to listen to them.
4. If I have multiple episodes of a single podcast I want to listen to, I just open it in My Podcasts and start the oldest one playing and they will play in the proper order.
5. You can stream a podcast on iTunes -- that seems to work, and it may even remember the playback position. When I'm at home I Air Play to my Apple TV from my iPhone.
6. The Podcast app will sometimes discard unplayed downloaded podcasts. Resetting the iPhone usually triggers this but sometimes a simple power off+on will do it as well. To get them back, you need to open each podcast in My Podcasts and tap the Add Old Episodes. Lo and behold there are the "disappeared" podcasts still marked as unplayed. Just add each one back and it download again.

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