Phantom Duplicate Podcasts in iTunes 11.3.1 & iOS 7 & Podcasts 2.1.2

This has been happening only for the last few versions (since maybe the last few versions of 11.2.X) every time i sync it creates a duplicate listing of any pre-existing podcast episodes. i say phantom because i don't think these duplicates actually exist on the device only in the list shown in iTunes (they don't show up on the device they also don't seem to be transferring or taking up any additional space) the only way i have found to resolve this is that every time i have to sync i must do it twice (at least) by unchecking sync podcasts syncing to remove all podcasts (which actually doesn't seem to reliably remove the episodes by the way) then sync again with the sync podcasts checked.
Anyone else seen this one?

The issue is really annoying. On my phone (and in iTunes) it keeps Unsubscribing me to all the feeds and on my phone it keeps duplicating the feeds.
The play counter is all over the place in each of these too. Episodes keep popping back on as unplayed, downloaded episodes that are actually Unplayed keep deleting themselves. This app is an absolute nightmare.

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I also noticed that the small highlighted oval which lists the number of podcast episodes had disappeared from the old 'podcast library'.
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Above is an image of the problem

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I have figured out a workaround that may work for you. It doesn't address the cause of the problem but it has gotten me past the problem. Note: Mac OSX
1. Make note of all of the podcasts that you currently have in each of your folders. You will need this to get back to your current position if you choose.
2a. Right click on the first of the two folders named Podcast. (Command Click, two-finger tap, as appropriate.) Delete should appear as an option. Select it. All of the contents and subscriptions in that folder will be lost.
On my system, Delete appeared as an option only on the first of the two folders named Podcast.
2b. I deleted the contents of the second folder but, in retrospect, I don't think that was necessary.
3. You should now be left with just one Podcast folder.
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5. Sync to your ipod. I got a warning message about the mismatch, said ok and let the sync proceed. It appears to have worked, as it did on my ipad.
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If you mean a duplicated series?
Grouping podcasts
A podcast series will split up in this way when its feed is moved to a new URL. Merging the series requires editing all the older episodes so that they appear to have come from the current feed. Download and install Mp3Tag (not sure of a Mac equivalent offhand). Use it to explore the Extended tags of podcasts from the same series. PODCASTURL (formerly ITUNESPODCASTURL) is used to link different podcasts from the same subscription (as opposed to fields like Album & Album Artist etc.) and PODCASTID (formerly ITUNESPODCASTID) determines the order. Everything else seems to be optional. Backup your files, tweak a few a tags then highlight the changed files in turn in iTunes with the image pane set to Selected item. This is marginally quicker for small numbers of files than using select, Get Info, OK to get iTunes to refresh its knowledge of the tags. Erm, last I checked the method no longer works anyway. If iTunes still fails to notice the updated tags try my script UpdateTagInfo (Win).
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And i'm surprised iTunes didn't alert me that this might happen. Like when I'm downloading photos I'm always alerted that I already have that and do i wish to replace the current one, or not make duplicates.
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hi,
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From the backup you maintain in case something drastic happens to your collection as it surely will when your drive crashes, the computer is stolen, etc.?
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Hi, Abril_Perez17.
This may be related to a new feature embedded in iOS7 that shows all purchased music by default. Go to Settings > Music, then turn off Show All Music. See if the issue ceases once the feature has been disabled. This information is located on page 63 of the user guide below.
iPhone User Guide
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