Podcasts won't copy to iPod

I'm getting error message "Podcasts cannot be updated because all of the podcasts selected for update no longer exist".
I have
-Reset iPod
-deleted all Podcast from iTunes and added new one
Still the same message, still unable to copy podcast to my iPod.
Suggestions?

iTunes 9 appears to change the logic for including Podcasts when syncing to the iPod. Previously if a podcast episode was included in a playlist which in turn was synced via the selected playlists area on the music tab then that episode would be available in both the playlist & podcast sections of the iPod.
As I can see it (though not fully tested as yet) iTunes 9 initially excludes podcasts that are only included via a playlist rather than via the options to include, for example, All episdodes of selected podcasts. If you *scroll down* the Podcasts pane (with iPod conneced) however you will find another section with the heading *Include Episodes from Playlists*. I presume selecting relevant playlists in this section will then include the episodes that you want to include via smart playlists rather than podcast selections.
One presumes that this new feature is designed to stop the accidental inclusion of Podcasts, TV Shows etc. into playlists with over-general rules. Can't say I ever noticed anyone complaining about this as a problem though. Most of my smart playlists open with Playlist is Music to narrow them down and I would have thought consistency between the iTunes & iPod version of the same playlist is what most users would wish for.
tt2

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HELP Podcasts won't copy to iPod!

Hi everyone,
I never had any problems with previous versions of iTunes, but ever since I upgraded to version 7, I constantly get errors when copying podcasts to the iPod.
Say I download 10 podcasts. When I go to sync, about 6 of them go through with no problem, but I get a pop-up window for the other four that reads:
"PODCAST NAME" was not copied to the iPod "IPOD NAME" because it could not be found.
Note that I can watch the entire thing download, and still get this error. More frustrating, say it does copy over correctly and without any error. The next time I sync, it might give me the error then! Even if I've already listened to it on the iPod, so I know it was there!
This only happens with podcasts, and never songs.
Can anyone PLEASE help me? And on a related note, can someone please direct me to where I can download a previous version of iTunes? I never had any problems until I upgraded to that infernal version 7!
Any help is appreciated, Thanks!
Windows Windows XP
Windows Windows XP

I think the most probable cause for this is that your iTunes is not authorized to play songs that is brought from the store. If this is the case go to Store>Sign In and login with your Apple ID and password. Then it should be able to sync. If you want to check how many computer is authorized with the account of the songs that won't sync to your iPod, you have to go to the iTunes Store -- sign in first. Click on your Apple ID, there is a popup asking for your password. After you done that, there is a row called "Computer Authorizations." If there are 5 computer that might mean that you can't authorize anymore computers and it might be the reason why you can't sync. I am not sure how you can deauthorize all the computers now after 7.0.1. There is a way on 6.0.5 but it is gone.
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SONGS WON'T COPY TO IPOD

For the first time (I've had iTunes and an iPod for a long time), I'm getting an error message when I sync my iPod that says that "[s]ome of the items in the iTunes library...were not copied to [my iPod] because you are not authorized to play them on this computer."
Umm, what the f---? Why is this happening?
There are 103 songs that won't copy, and at first glance it appears that the first 103 songs I ever purchased are the very 103 that won't copy onto my iPod.
Anyone have any ideas about what is going on here? I am reasonably sure that I haven't copied all 103 of these songs to disc 5 times, or whatever the limit is.
Thanks in advance to all who answer.
TW

b noir:
your initial reply, which at first seemed promising, has now taken me to a whole other level of difficulty. allow me to elaborate.
1) i have attempted to play one of the aforementioned purchased songs in my itunes library, per your advice (not on my ipod, but on my imac). upon doing so, i get the error message:
"This computer is not authorized to play "______." Would you like to authorize it? The message box displays the Apple ID and asks me for the password.
2) all well and fine, except that the email address which displays in the message box as my Apple ID is old and obsolete--way obsolete. So of course, if I enter my present password, it will not match this old ID.
3) i attempted to change this old ID to my present ID. when I did so, my present ID, which DOES match my present password (and, thus, which i DON'T want to change), showed up as the ID to change.
4) what do i do? at this point i'm stuck.

WON'T COPY TO IPOD

For the first time (I've had iTunes and an iPod for a long time), I'm getting an error message when I sync my iPod that says that "[s]ome of the items in the iTunes library...were not copied to [my iPod] because you are not authorized to play them on this computer."
Umm, what the f---? Why is this happening?
There are 103 songs that won't copy, and at first glance it appears that the first 103 songs I ever purchased are the very 103 that won't copy onto my iPod.
Anyone have any ideas about what is going on here? I am reasonably sure that I haven't copied all 103 of these songs to disc 5 times, or whatever the limit is.
Thanks in advance to all who answer.
TW

I think the most probable cause for this is that your iTunes is not authorized to play songs that is brought from the store. If this is the case go to Store>Sign In and login with your Apple ID and password. Then it should be able to sync. If you want to check how many computer is authorized with the account of the songs that won't sync to your iPod, you have to go to the iTunes Store -- sign in first. Click on your Apple ID, there is a popup asking for your password. After you done that, there is a row called "Computer Authorizations." If there are 5 computer that might mean that you can't authorize anymore computers and it might be the reason why you can't sync. I am not sure how you can deauthorize all the computers now after 7.0.1. There is a way on 6.0.5 but it is gone.
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Hi,
I've tried to follow the instructions about how to sync podcasts from itunesU to your ipod. It says to select your device when it appears then click on the itunesU button and select the podcasts you want to sync and click "apaly". Well if I'm selecting the device then when I select the itunesU folder I have deselected the device. More to the point, there is no "apply" feature appearing. What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't it automatically sync the same way music does?

I think you may have misunderstood the instruction.
Connect the iPod to iTunes and then select the device (which will appear on the left hand side). You should now see the Summary screen which shows (among other things) an icon for the iPod with detail about it, along with a capacity bar at the bottom of the screen.
Look at the top of the screen (not the left hand side) and you will see *Summary, Music, Movies, TV programmes, Podcasts, iTunes U, Books, Photos, Info.* Select *iTunes U* from that list. On this "pane" or tab, you will see *Sync iTunes U* and some options listed beneath that. Make sure the *Sync iTunes U* has a tick in the box and that you have chosen the options suitable for you from the list below it. (If you choose *Automatically include/all/items of/all collections* that will put all the iTunes U on the iPod.) Once you make any changes to these options, there should be either an Apply button and a Revert button, or a Sync button at the bottom right of the screen. (It depends on what changes you have made!) Make sure you click on the Apply or Sync button in order for your choice to be implemented.
To actually find the iTunes U episodes on your iPod depends on which iPod you have! I'm not joking! I only know about the iPod Classic and the iPod Touch (therefore the iPhone as well), so if you have any other model, I suggest you use the search facility on the iPod to find the episodes.
On the _iPod Touch:_ they're hiddden under the Music menu. So navigate to *Music/More/iTunes U.*
On the _iPod Classic:_ for some reason, I can only find iTunes U programmes in the Playlists menu. The Playlists menu can be removed from the *Main Menu* and the *Music Menu,* but I will assume (unless you tell me otherwise) that you can see the Playlists menu on the *Main & Music* menus. So navigate to *Playlists/iTunes U* and you should see the episodes.
Actually - on the iPod Classic you will notice the iTunes U epsiodes appear under both Artist and the Songs menus - a bit weird I think. However, iTunes U programmes (like Podcasts) are set by default to *skip when shuffling,* so if you want to play music on shuffle, don't worry because the iTunes U programmes will not play.
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Downloaded Star Trek into Darkness but won't copy to iPod

I downloaded the digital copy of the movie, and when I try to copy to iPod it says, "'Star Trek into Darkness' was not copied to the iPod 'Erik' because it cannot be played on this iPod".
What is up with that? I have the 120GB iPod Classic. Does anyone have any ideas as to why iTunes is being mean right now?

Hello MissingMyMind,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
I would download an SD version of the movie, and try to sync that. I am assuming that the version you have is in HD.
From: iTunes 10 for Mac: Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1706
In iTunes, click iTunes Store (below Store).
Click the Purchased link in the top-right of the Store home page (below Quick Links).
In the page that appears, select a category.iTunes shows you which of your purchases are available for download. You can view all of your past purchases, or just the ones not currently in your iTunes library. Items already in your library aren’t available for download.If you select Music, you can view your purchases by song, artist, or album. If you’re using Album view, click an album to see which songs on it are available for downloading.To search for an item, type its name or a keyword in the search field, and then press the Return key to view your search results.
To download an item, click the Download button to the right of the item.To download all available items, click Download All.
When you go to download the movie in the Movies tab of your purchases, be sure to uncheck the Download HD Version When Available check box to get the SD version, and be syncable to your iPod Classic.
All the very best,
Sterling

How can I set iTunes to prevent selected podcasts from being copied to iPod

Hi,
I have searched and could not find the answer to this problem.
Anyway, I have a 5th gen iPod and am running it on a Mac with the latest iTunes. On the iPod options pane, I have selected to update only the selected Podcasts. I am leaving the podcasts that I do not want on my iPod (but want to keep on my Mac) unselected.
Now although it is true that the unselcted Podcasts to not appear in the Podcast section of my iPod, the files are still there and can be found by artist, album, etc.
How can I get around this? Basically, I have a few gigs of Video Podcasts that I do not want to carry on the iPod but do want o keep on my Mac in iTunes.
Any help would be appreciated.
Bruno

This was a change in iTunes beginning with iTunes 6. In 5, podcasts were their own category. In 6, you can actually see podcasts in the regular library so they are likely being copied over by some other playlist. You have a few options for handling this.
• Set the iPod only to copy checked items & uncheck the undesired podcasts.
• Sync only selected playlists & make sure each smart playlist has is Podcast set to false.
The first option gives you more control over the specific ones you don't want to include while the second applies to all podcasts, not just video.
Also under 6.0.3 there is an iPod Preferences button in the Podcasts section of Preferences. You might be able to limit them there. I'm at work, so I don't have my iPod hooked up to this machine to verify that functionality now.

Video podcasts won't play, cause ipod to freeze

Hi there,
My 5.5g ipod won't play video podcasts. I've downloaded several different ones, made sure the "TV Out" is turned off, and played with several other settings, all to no avail. When I open one from the video>video podcasts menu, the screen goes black, sometimes it says "Loading" with the little "play" arrow in the top left corner, and that's all I get. It freezes, and I have to reset.
I've also tried restoring the ipod to factory conditions, which didn't work. The podcasts play in iTunes, so that's not the problem.
This thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8969818&#8969818
also seems to describe my problem, but I can't find a solution there.
Anybody have any ideas for how to fix this? Thanks!

It's up to the producers of the podcast whether they make their video podcasts iPod compatible or not. It's certainly not a requirement for an iTunes Podcast feed which is, perhaps, unfortunate. You could try sending the producer feedback but even if they take any notice it won't affect podcasts you've already downloaded. The *Make iPod compatible version* rarely works (somthing to do with whether audio & video are separate or multiplexed to start with). I suggest you download SUPER which is capable of converting almost anything to an iPod version. You have to navigate through a bunch of links before you get to the actual download, but it is there - just ignore the links to other commercial software on the way, SUPER is free.
tt2
PS. On my current setup SUPER generates the odd error message while running but still produces a working output file...
Message was edited by: turingtest2

Video podcasts won't transfer to iPod - it's not a format issue

I've been watching the video podcast "Wallstrip" www.wallstrip.com on my iPod. Just the other day I noticed a problem with my iPod software (v 1.2.1) and performed a restore. THAT problem was fixed (clicking play all in a list such as genre just scrolled songs but didn't play them) but now there's a NEW problem: The Wallstrip video podcast, which USED to transfer and play just fine, is now identified by iTunes as one that won't play because it's not the right format. Clearly there's a problem with the iPod. I've looked at forums and I am aware that one can manually convert it to "movies" but that's clearly not the problem. If it worked yesterday and doesn't today something's screwy. Ditto for the "Planet TV" podcast. Anyone know what to do?

i have the same problem. several of my video podcasts have stopped transferring with the same format error which i know is incorrect.

Some songs won't copy to Ipod from Itunes

Hello all,
A bunch of songs won't transfer to my ipod and I can't figure out why...
Exact message: "Some of the items in the Itunes Library, including "..." were not copied to the iPod because they cannot be played on this iPod" Then it says there are "101 problems - see below"
I counted the tracks, there are actually 63. (My library has about 6000 tunes.)
I've recently upgraded to buy the new DRM free songs, but I don't see the connection.
I checked the Kind, Sample Rate, and Bit rate and there doesn't seem to be any differences between these and others.
I converted the songs to mp3-192s, trashed the originals, still won't transfer.
I still have 10GB of space left on my iPod, so it's not a space issue.
Most are songs I purchased in the I-tunes store.
The only thing these songs have in common is that they all were loaded in the same session.
They were on my iPod before I upgraded to 7.2
I'm on a G4 laptop, OS 10.4.9 1.67 PowerPC.
Running I-Tunes 7.2
Video iPod version 1.2.1

I was shocked to see your post. I was just about to paste this new thread:
After updating iPod software to 1.1.3 for my nano 8GB, there are 101 songs that iTunes refuses to sync to the nano, saying:
Some of the items in the iTunes library, including "Great Escape", were not copied to the iPod "My iPod" because they cannot be played on this iPod.
When I use the disclosure triangle to see details, all songs give the same info, for example:
"Multiply" was not copied because the file type is not supported by the iPod "My iPod".
But these are all just MP3 files. Some, if not all, of them were purchased in the iTunes store, then burned to a standard CD (aiff?), then later reloaded. They've all been played before on this iPod. I still have the original protected song files filed away, and I could pull them out, but I shouldn't have to do that. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks.
--Scott
Sully, I think it is an odd coincidence that we both have "101 problems". I thought this was an iPod problem at first, but I have reset the iPod and started all over. The problem persists. I think the problem is in iTunes. In my case at least, there seems to be a list of m4p files within iTunes that were on this iPod before, files that i have replaced with regular mp3 files now, and iTunes doesn't want to copy over them. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
--Scott

Podcasts won't sync to ipod; podcast icon gone

I have been happily downloading podcasts to Itunes and syncing them to my ipod nano 4th generation for months. Suddenly, after syncing two podcasts (Itunes said successfully), there were no podcasts on the nano and when I connected it again, the podcast icon under the device menu for the nano on Itunes was gone.
I have reset and restored the nano, reloaded all the songs, unsubscribed to the podcasts and resubscribed. Now when I try and sync a podcast, I receive the message that the ipod could not be synced, because the required disk could not be found. What the heck happened?

elaraine wrote:
I'm having a similar problem in that I cannot a way to keep podcasts on my iPod. Every time I sync my iPod, iTunes automatically removes all episodes that I've already listened to, even if I want to keep them and they are still present in my iTunes library on the computer.
I think this is a different problem!
I've already checked the option in "Settings" that says keep "all episodes." But the iPod doesn't keep all episodes, only iTunes.
I assume you mean the settings _in iTunes_ for iTunes. To control what stays on your iPod, connect the iPod to iTunes and click on the device when it shows up in iTunes. You should see the Summary pane. Just along from there is the Podcasts pane. Select that and on this pane you can select *Keep all epsiodes* (on the iPod). Make your choice and Sync again to activate the change. If you have problems with this, post again.
Phil

Podcasts won't sync to iPod

I have some podcasts that aren't syncing to my iPod.
I have tried resetting my iPod.
I have tried un-syncing, letting it complete, disconnecting my iPod then reconnecting it and choosing "sync all podcasts". When I do that, all the podcasts sync over except for those ones.
I have tried selecting specifically those podcasts only, and choosing sync. The little swirly sync icon shows up for a second, then disappears, and no podcasts are synced.
Help

elaraine wrote:
I'm having a similar problem in that I cannot a way to keep podcasts on my iPod. Every time I sync my iPod, iTunes automatically removes all episodes that I've already listened to, even if I want to keep them and they are still present in my iTunes library on the computer.
I think this is a different problem!
I've already checked the option in "Settings" that says keep "all episodes." But the iPod doesn't keep all episodes, only iTunes.
I assume you mean the settings _in iTunes_ for iTunes. To control what stays on your iPod, connect the iPod to iTunes and click on the device when it shows up in iTunes. You should see the Summary pane. Just along from there is the Podcasts pane. Select that and on this pane you can select *Keep all epsiodes* (on the iPod). Make your choice and Sync again to activate the change. If you have problems with this, post again.
Phil

Video podcast won't play on iPod

I know others have had the same problem, but since I'm using Adobe Premiere Elements none of the answers have worked for me.
I'm a relative newbie producing a new video pilates podcast: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=218657379
Feed: http://pilatescenterofbend.com/corecast.xml
Everything is working with the feed/iTunes/etc except for ipod playback.
Using the tech specs supplied by Apple I export the videos with the following settings and PE 3.0:
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Apple MPEG4 compressor
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Premiere elements 3.0 has an "export to ipod" option that uses the h264 encoder, but i wasn't getting good quality while limiting file sizes with that option. And the ipod tech specs say you can use .mp4 files.
I'm stumped.
Thanks in advance of any help you can offer.
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I'd like to try to get it right w/ Premiere so i can
avoid the extra step of QT PRO. That would also add
another layer of compression, degrading video
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Only two computers authorized but ACC songs won't copy to iPod.

Today I purchased some new music from iTunes. Once I was finished downloading iTunes informed me that I might want to upgrade the software on my iPod. I did. Then when it went to sync everything it came up with the following message.
"Some of the items in the iTunes library including "Say It Ain't So", were not copied to the iPod "Ben's iPod" because you are not authorized to play them on this computer."
I checked online and iTunes say that only 2 computers are authorized, which means I've got 3 to go. The other weird thing is that these new songs and some other protected ACC songs purchased form iTunes were copied and work fine on my iPod. Does anyone know what's going on here. I'm stumped.

b noir:
your initial reply, which at first seemed promising, has now taken me to a whole other level of difficulty. allow me to elaborate.
1) i have attempted to play one of the aforementioned purchased songs in my itunes library, per your advice (not on my ipod, but on my imac). upon doing so, i get the error message:
"This computer is not authorized to play "______." Would you like to authorize it? The message box displays the Apple ID and asks me for the password.
2) all well and fine, except that the email address which displays in the message box as my Apple ID is old and obsolete--way obsolete. So of course, if I enter my present password, it will not match this old ID.
3) i attempted to change this old ID to my present ID. when I did so, my present ID, which DOES match my present password (and, thus, which i DON'T want to change), showed up as the ID to change.
4) what do i do? at this point i'm stuck.

Library won't copy to iPod

Just got my first iPod, all was going along great but when I tried to "sync" my music from iTunes to my iPod, I got an error message, "items in the iTune library were not copied to the iPod because you are not authorized to play them on this computer." Only 1 of the 25 songs copied. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks so much!

Hello,
First, check the iPod's preferences in iTunes... click on the iPod under Devices in the left-hand column. This should display the 'Summary' page (you'll see a picture of the iPod). Click on the Music tab, and make sure it is set to Sync all songs and playlists.
If the preferences are not set that way, change them so that they are, and then click Apply in the lower right-hand column. If they are already set that way, you might want to consider restoring your iPod in iTunes. This article will go over that in detail:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983
If the restore doesn't help, try changing the iPod drive letter, per this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499
Hope this is helpful
CG

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