Playing enhanced podcasts

Is anyone having trouble - not seeing the images during an enhanced podcast on their ipod classic. I don't know if its something I'm not doing since my last ipod was a b/w that didn't play anything but the audio. The video podcasts play just fine - just the enhanced ones that aren't working.

Mike Loiterman wrote:
I'm not seeing the fix. Now, it just shows a music note icon and when I cycle through the different screens with the center button, the screen that should show the large picture of the artwork is just blank.
This is occuring on the Retromac Podcast...Anyone else?
After putting up the "FIXED" post last night, I noticed that while the feature is there, it's not as reliable as it should be (though it's certainly better than none at all). I noticed that after playing around with my iPod for a while (oh so speedy!), returning to the Macworld Podcast brought on the same behavior you described: cycling to the fullscreen album art portion of "Now Playing" only came up as blank. It only corrected itself after I had synched over new podcasts.
So, it appears that the enhanced podcast feature (at least for fullscreen art) can get temporarily "messed up" to where the fullscreen area only shows a blank white screen. But, synching over new podcasts files (which presumably reconstructs any podcast database information on the iPod) fixes the issue... at least until the next time it messes up.
As for no artwork at all displaying (getting the grey box and music note on the "Playback Progress Meter" Now Playing screen)... it just seems to be slow on occasion. I've been stuck on the grey box for up to 5 seconds using an enhanced podcast, but it eventually pulled in the artwork (I could hear the hard drive whirring in the iPod as it searched). Once I had to actually switch out to a different podcast for a second, and then return to the enhanced podcast to get the art to show up. As I said earlier.... the enhanced podcast features are there, they're just not as reliable as they ought to be.
By the way, I did download an episode of the Retromac podcast (Episode 41: Left-handed Mac), it showed the enhanced podcast artwork - including fullscreen - correctly. You might need to sync over an additional podcast file to rebuild/fix the podcast database on your iPod, but it should work.

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Whenever I listen to my enhanced podcasts through iTunes, I have no problems viewing the photos the podcaster included in the program. However, when I play the same podcast in my iPod, the photos will not show. I only see the timeline with the little segments that represent the chapters. I can hit the forward and back arrows and I am taken the to the next chapter marker. But, unfortunately, I do not see the photos, as I do see them in iTunes.
Can anyone help me adjust my iPod to enable it to play enhanced podcasts correctly?
According to the iPod manuals, I should be able to see enhanced podcasts with no trouble.
Thanks.
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Windows XP

Whenever I listen to my enhanced podcasts through
iTunes, I have no problems viewing the photos the
podcaster included in the program. However, when I
play the same podcast in my iPod, the photos will not
show. I only see the timeline with the little
segments that represent the chapters. I can hit the
forward and back arrows and I am taken the to the
next chapter marker. But, unfortunately, I do not see
the photos, as I do see them in iTunes.
Can anyone help me adjust my iPod to enable it to
play enhanced podcasts correctly?
According to the iPod manuals, I should be able to
see enhanced podcasts with no trouble.
Thanks.
5th generation
iPod Windows XP
Windows XP
I have solved it myself. Here's how I did it:
In iTunes, go to Edit and click to Show Art Work and leave it as "Hide Art Work." (Now it will download the enhanced messages.)
Now go to the iPod: From the Main Menu, go to Settings. At the Settings, go to the other Main Menu. From this Main Menu, go to Music and make sure that the following are on:
Playlists, Photos, and Photo Import, Videos, and Extras.
Good Luck.
Windows XP 60gb video 5th generation

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I kept researching and reading after putting up the post.
Upgrading to OS 10.4 & DSP4 & FCP5 to get Compressor 2 is just to expensive for me at this time.
And after much thought upgrading to QT7 for h.264 just to watch videos online, (and not having broadband thats a very time consuming process), I think I'll just stay with what I have at the moment which works well.
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http://i.imgur.com/vy33H9y.png
http://i.imgur.com/g4P5iM1.png
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