No longer marking songs/podcasts as "Played"

I count on my shuffle updating iTunes (windows) that a podcast was played. This way I know which I can delete from the podcast directory. Since going to the latest version of iTunes when I update the shuffle it is not feeding back the information that a podcast has been played. Anyone else experiencing this?

Is it that Mail doesn’t mark messages as read or that messages marked as read revert to the unread status some time afterwards?
Do you have any Mail plug-ins or system utilities that could interfere with Mail? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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EXPERT NEEDED!! Songs that once played on iTunes & iPod no longer will.

I've got a 20 Gig iPod (clickwheel black and white). I have a mixture of ripped CD's, songs I've downloaded from iTunes, and songs that are on my iPod for an account my iTunes is an authorized user for.
Songs that have played just fine for a long time are now showing up with an "!" mark next to them in iTunes. And when I choose them on the iPod, it just skips to the next song. Oddly enough, I've even got some complete CDs that I've ripped, d/l'd, etc., and one or two songs will play, but the rest show up with the "!"
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I'm at a loss. I'm so desparate for a solution, I'd be happy to send the person that first tells me how to fix the problem a $20 bill (or a check -- probably a little safer in the mail). No kidding.
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HT1386 My Itunes on my laptop will no longer sync any podcasts or audiobooks to my mini Ipad, and my Ipod as well. After I sync and try to play a podcast on both I get the following podcast is temporarily unavailable! I can downld on ipad and it works,

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Upgrade to Snow Leopard - it's compatible with the latest version of iTunes, and still supports PowerPC applications.
$19.99 - http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Snow Leopard is required if you wanted to upgrade to Lion, anyway, which you may want to in the future if the latest version of iTunes no longer supports Snow Leopard.

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See: Troubleshooting songs and audiobooks that won't play on the iPod.
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Songs aren't playing through...need some help here

Hey guys,
All of sudden, my songs won't play through like a playlist anymore. Like, once the song finishes, Itunes just doesn't go to the next one. It stops. Now I have to manually click the new song on the list every time I want to hear something. It's getting very frustrating and I was wondering if anyone new how to fix this.

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Song Doesn't Play On iPod, But Will Play In Itunes

Hello
So, i ripped my copy of Disturbed's Asylum to my PC in mp3, the song plays fine in iTunes, but when transferred to my iPod, it will not play if I either select it or pass it on a playlist. The album artwork and information displays fine, but it will just stop at 0 time for a couple seconds, then advance to the next song. Also, the play count increases everytime it runs over the song, so it is capable of writing data to the file.
I've re-added the song to iTunes and restored my iPod, but neither have worked. Any idea why this happens with just the one song?
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*Skipping songs*
The iPod seems to fail to play all of the occasional track that iTunes, and indeed other PMPs, are happy to play. There is probably some minor technical error in the internal structure of the file which is normally ignored by other playback software but causes the Classic to bail out.
You may like to try scanning the files with MP3 Validator which can find & fix some internal MP3 errors.
Some users have also suggested that completely removing all id3 tags and then replacing the information can be a solution. This can be achieved in iTunes by selecting an affected track, right/option clicking and using the option Convert id3 tags > None. Since some files may mistakenly have more than one tag you may need to repeat this action. Once you have confirmed that no tag is present you can replace the tag information using Convert id3 tags > V2.3 (I believe it is recommended to avoid using V2.4).
Personally I have found files for which these solutions don't work. In this case the workaround is either to re-rip the tracks or get iTunes to re-encode the file, e.g. convert AAC to MP3 or vice versa and sync the newly encoded file to the iPod instead. Because transcoding will cause a loss of fidelity you should keep your original file so that if a future iPod firmware resolves this issue you can put your original files back onto the iPod.
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The above relates to songs which have always been a problem. If songs have played fine on the iPod before but don't any longer (and they haven't been updated) then one possible cause is some form of hard drive corruption.
*Check your iPod with Diagnostics Mode*
It's possible that your iPod's hard drive has started to fail. Take your iPod and place your right thumb on the centre SELECT button and your left on the top MENU button. Press down both thumbs for about 6 seconds until your iPod reboots. Immediately move your left thumb around to the rewind button |<< on the left and hold this down together with SELECT for a further 6 seconds. Your iPod should now switch into Diagnostic Boot mode. Press MENU for *Manual Test*, then select *IO > HardDrive > HDSMARTData* to reveal your stats. For comparison here are mine for my 2 year old 6th Generation Classic:
Retracts: 889
Reallocs: 12
Pending Sectors: 0
PowerOn Hours: 2202
Start/Stops: 894
Temp: Current 24c
Temp: Min 10c
Temp: Max 50c
Take a note of your results. When finished press *SELECT & MENU* for 6 seconds to reset the iPod again.
With modern disc drives sectors are no longer marked bad by a disc scan, if the SMART firmware detects a sector it has trouble accessing it will attempt to invisibly reallocate it to a spare area of the disc.
Note that I've only 12 remapped sectors and none pending. To help explain what the numbers mean here is an extract from the Wikipedia S.M.A.R.T. article:
*Reallocated Sectors Count*
Count of reallocated sectors. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. This is why, on modern hard disks, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface – all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors. However, as the number of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease. The raw value normally represents a count of the number of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate.
*Pending sector count*
Number of "unstable" sectors (waiting to be remapped, because of read errors). If an unstable sector is subsequently written or read successfully, this value is decreased and the sector is not remapped. Read errors on a sector will not remap the sector (since it might be readable later); instead, the drive firmware remembers that the sector needs to be remapped, and remaps it the next time it's written.
Large numbers of Reallocs or Pending Sectors would suggest your drive is failing and that you may need to repair or replace your iPod. Check your stats after another attempt to update your iPod. If the numbers increase that again points to hard drive failure. While it won't be good news at least you'll know it isn't some random software problem and you can decide what to do next.
tt2

Why won't my iPod work on iTunes or my computer? It shows up (not on iTunes) and the iPod shows connected but it has to be "formatted." And why are half my songs unable to play on it anymore? It just skips them!

I've read through several discussions and I've seen a lot of similar issues but none that were quite like mine. Every time I plug my 3rd gen. iPod nano in it shows it connected on the iPod screen and iTunes opens up but the device does not show up in iTunes. The icon on the iPod shows connected and gives the arrows circling showing syncing even though it still says connected. But it won’t show up in iTunes. It shows up on my windows computer but I can’t click it or make it do anything. It keeps saying “You need to format the disk before you can do anything.” And when I hit cancel it beeps and says "Location not available. Dara error (cyclic redundancy check)." As if I know what that means!! And I have 800 songs on it but they aren’t all on my computer and some are on my parents’ computer but I can’t get to that one. It shows it is a “FAT32” which I have no clue what that means but I’ve never noticed that before.
Windows "can't access the disk" and I don't know why. It gives me that notification if I try to check the drive or disk or device for problems. And if you click it on Windows it pops up a screen with formatting things (which I don't know anything about). And then it closes and says that it CANNOT format the device.
The iPod works almost okay when it isn’t plugged in, but I’ve noticed that half my songs won’t play. You click on it and it plays the next one in the album. And it isn’t always the first song in an album but random songs. And songs I listen to a lot. You can’t go back (you can only go forward and you can’t skip over the ‘missing’ song) or even click to select those songs. But other songs play normal, just not half of them that are on the iPod but all of a sudden no longer work. And I don’t know why. I have another 3rd gen. iPod nano that doesn’t have ANY of these problems. It hooks up, it doesn’t need formatting, and all its songs play. I don’t know what is wrong or what to do. I’ve tried re-downloading iTunes and everything. I don’t want to have to reset my iPod and lose everything.
I’ve tried locating the device in iTunes and it shows the iPod but it gives this weird symbol and I can’t select it. It’s like a white box with a box that is outlined in blue with six random icons in the middle. I’ve seen it before and it always means something is wrong or a file (which is where I have seen it before) is corrupted. And like I said I have a second iPod nano of the same generation and it does not give this weird symbol. Plus it connects just fine. It’s this one iPod.
I don’t understand what is going on. It worked just fine and then all of a sudden I noticed songs wouldn’t play so I went to plug it into iTunes and nothing has worked. I’ve searched discussions and none of the tips help. But I want my songs to play again and I want my iPod back.

Hey briannagrace96,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities! I'd check out the following article, it looks like it applies to your situation:
iPod: Appears in Windows but not in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1363
You'll want to go through the following troubleshooting steps, and for more detail on each step follow the link to the article above:
Try the iPod troubleshooting assistant:
If you have not already done so, try the steps in the iPod Troubleshooting Assistant (choose your iPod model from the list).
If the issue remains after following your iPod's troubleshooting assistant, follow the steps below to continue troubleshooting your issue.
Restart the iPod Service
Restart the Apple Mobile Device Service
Empty your Temp directory and restart
Verify that the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is installed
Change your iPod's drive letter
Remove and reinstall iTunes
Disable conflicting System Services and Startup Items
Update, Reconfigure, Disable, or Remove Security Software
Deleting damaged or incorrect registry keys
Take care,
David

How can I mark a podcast as "read" ?

Is there a way for me to manually mark a podcast as one that I have already heard? I almost never listen to them in iTunes and I manually select which ones I put on my nano. iTunes can't tell if I've listened or not and so I'm automatically unsubscribed.
G4 Dual, iPod nano Mac OS X (10.4.4) iTunes 6.02

After researching this further, I have concluded that the update feature is working correctly. What I was expecting was that once the iPod would sync with my Mac, that the updating, including marking the podcast as read would take place at that point. In reality, this function does not take place until I click on "Update" in iTunes. During that process the various blue dots of those Podcasts listened to go away, and Podcasts that are outside the parameters of those I want to retain are deleted.
So, if indeed, as long as I have completed the entire Podcast, the update functions are working properly.
BD
iBook G-4 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1.33 GHz, 768 MB memory, 60 GB HD, iPod Shuffle

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