So tired of iTunes & Podcasts, recommendations?

latest iTunes, OSX & IOS.
iTunes corrupted a week ago...again. I completely rebuilt it on another, less used HD. It's corrupted again now. Freezes when I try to download podcast updates, claims 100% of my CPU, and runs the fan on high. No other program gives me problems, including some pretty HD & processor intensive programs like FCP.
we run a 100% apple house, but I'm ready to give up iTunes and Podcasts App. I have struggled along with iTunes because I prefer to download the day's podcasts on iTunes OSX and then sort, delete, rack and stack them into a playlist for my iPhone. Using a keyboard & mouse is just a lot faster.
Is there another osx/ios pair of apps out there that does the same? It's time for this dog to learn new tricks.

I have a question: I deleted some TV Videos by mistake. Went to my deleted. I went in the Recycle bin to restore them. Where does it actually restore the videos? They are not back in itunes...

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Posting My iTunes Podcast URL On My Website

Earlier today Wrongway Peachfuzz taught me how to locate the url needed to ping iTunes that I had a new photo, description and info update, and now I'm hoping one of you can teach me...
How to locate my iTunes podcast URL so I can post it on my website and drive my traffic to my iTunes page.
Thank you,

Here's info from the spec:
Linking to Your Podcast
If your podcast is accepted, customers will be able to discover it in the iTunes Store via search or browse. But you can also create links directly to your podcasts and share those on your website or in email. There are two linking methods:
iTunes Store Link: The following link goes directly to your podcast page in iTunes, where users will have the opportunity to subscribe to the podcast. This link can be found for any podcast by control + clicking (or right clicking in Windows) the podcast’s art on its page in the iTunes Store: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=FEEDID
Note that a shorter but functionally identical link is also available: http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=FEEDID
This is the preferred method among podcasters, because it results in an action (the user clicking on the Subscribe button in the iTunes Store) that is registered by iTS and will drive your podcast up the various automated charts.
Direct Subscribe Link: The following link automatically subscribes the user to the podcast in iTunes. Note that this method fails for Windows users who do not have iTunes installed, so it should be clearly noted that the link is intended for subscription with iTunes.
itpc://FEEDURL
Also note that this method will not push your podcast up the various charts in the iTunes Store. It is a direct call to the user's iTunes client software and sends no information to the iTunes Store. If you want to increase the visibility of your podcast, we recommend that your web site and other marketing materials use the iTunes Store link described above.

Input: iTunes Podcast Subscriber Navigation

For iTunes Staff or anyone that has this information:
Can you provide any guidance as to predominant iTunes Podcast Usage/Experience/Navigation? We've had a successful podshow - consistently in top rankings. Yet, we want to make sure we're aware of key data that might help us and others who bother to read your response , optimize our navigation for users.
Here are my ?s:
1. How are most subscribers entering iTunes?
- external URL redirect?
- podcast producer external link to their subscriber page?
- from iTunes existing music customers?
- etc?
2. Once in iTunes, what is the typical navigation?
- from main podcast page to . . .?
- what % use "browse" as function to find podcast?
- what % use "categories"?
- what % use "top podcasts" in that category?
- what % use keyword search in the left nav bar?
- what % use the Search feature at the top?
4. What resources available (reliable/recommended) to understand - from Apple iTunes podcast team - current best practices to optimize for aforementioned navigation, and/or for future 'roadmap' of iTunes podcast service (given recent changes in categories and apparent current continued modifcations)?
Thanks!
Best Regards,
David

Maybe this will help: http://www.ehow.com/how5151978update-itunes-podcast-info-feedburner.html
Changing the feed link in iWeb requires you to edit the source code of your published blog page. Here is how:
1. Publish your site. Using the Finder or your FTP client navigate to your published site. In there should be a folder named after your Podcast.
2. In that folder is a file ending in .html that is named just like the folder. Open the file in an HTML editor like Coda or TacoHTML.
3. Search for <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS". Following the last parameter (title="RSS"), you will find something like href="...". The three dots represent the path to your feed file. Replace that with the Feedburner URL.
That should do it! Good Luck!
Message was edited by: MacPro.ButNOWebPro

Any free video hosting services meant for iTunes podcasts?

Any free video hosting services meant for iTunes podcasts? I have found free audio hosting ones for iTunes podcasts, but are there any videos ones? THANKS!

The best I found was after searching YouTube for, how to prepare a video podcast to submit to iTunes Directory.
Several instructional videos come up that are worth watching. The two I initially found are recommended are podbean.com and podomatic.com.
I tried podbean.com, which easily generated the RSS feed iTunes requires, which I was able to successfully copy into the iTunes store line on Submit a Podcast to the iTunes Directory. Podbean has many helpful instructions on how to use their site and submit your video to iTunes.
Since I wasted 3 weeks trying to understand https://discussions.apple.com/message/23110806#23110806, other apple.com insructions, searching the internet, calling senior advisors in Apple Care (none of whom knew or could read this apple.com page either) I was really happy just to find one way to be able to do it. And easily too.
The only way you can possibly get an answer from Apple is to email [email protected], the iTunes Store says, since there is no phone support. Then I was told to wait 10 working days for a reply.
Thank goodness I finally searched YouTube. (There were many other confusing and difficult instructions on the internet.)
After uploading small video files onto my new site at podbean.com, at least I got 3 short videos onto iTunes that show in my computer's iTunes podcast subscriptions and they downloaded successfully. I understand I must wait a few days to get an ID from iTunes directory, which will then list my videos to the pubic as available in ITunes.
Podbean.com does have up to 100 mb free web hosting. (No video can bemore than 30 mb.) But it does allow everything iTunes needs, including a cover photo and description. All future feeds will be automatiically seen by iTunes through the podbean url that was given you, that you pasted into iTunes when you first submitted your podcast. So you only have to do this once, I understand.
Podbean wants to entice you to purchase more space so they show various prices.
I'm still wondering if somehow I could link my existing youtube videos (or facebook, myspace, vimeo, Flickr duplicates) in a field somewhere and link to them. Maybe?
Now that I know to use a web host that generates all the xml and RSS feed behind the scenes (since I don't know how) I'll explore these options, and the other site, podomatic.com.
Let us know if there are other good, free ones for video.
(One YouTube video said mypodcast.com is good for mp3 audio podcasts, FYI.)

The podcasts that I have subscribed to via itunes have stopped downloading/syncing. I see new podcasts on the podcasts website but they are not listed on my list of itunes podcasts, nor do they show up when I sync to an iPod

the podcasts that I have subscribed to via itunes have stopped downloading/syncing. I see new podcasts on the podcasts website but they are not listed on my list of itunes podcasts, nor do they show up when I sync to an iPod. any ideas, thanks joanlvh

Have you read for possible solutions over in the "More Like This" thread over here?----------------------->
Check out the following KB Articles: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329 How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527 iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer

HT1399 As I have added pocast shows to my itunes podcast list it is in a random order. How do I alphabetize my list of podcasts. Can I manually arrange them in an order of my choosing. Thanks

As I have added podcast subscriptions to my itunes podcast list on the far left menu window the list is in a random order. How do I aphabetize the podcast list ? Can I arrange them manually ?

I have about 500 bookmarks .. and they are arranged within 60 folders. I would like to see them in chronological order as before, because now to find a bookmark is a hard task.
thanks for your suggestion, anyway.

Is it possible to change the URL of an iTunes Podcast page itself (NOT the Feed URL)?

My company has an usual question:
While keeping all the individual podcasts the same, and the subject matter of the whole podcast series the same, my company would like to change the URL that Apple iTunes has assigned us. Is this possible, and how can it be done?
Again, I am talking about the URL that Apple iTunes has assigned us. The one that begins:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/career-...
We are having a small change in marketing emphasis. So my company wants to change one of the dashed English words in the URL, after:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/
These English words were based on the original title of our podcast. The original title of our podcast has changed slightly, with no problem. Now my company just wants to change the URL assigned to us by Apple.
Let me emphasize: There is no purpose of misdirection, evasion, or deceit here -- not in the slightest. My company is simply taking a different marketing angle. Our category is staying the same. The podcasts themselves are staying the same. My company would just like to update the URL assigned to us by Apple to reflect our new podcast series name.
ALSO:
We are a category-leading, very popular podcast. If we do change our iTunes podcast URL, we do not at all want to jeopardize our leading status in our podcast subject category. We want all our download stats to move with us over to the new URL. This is extremely important to us.
AND FURTHER:
If we do change our iTunes podcast URL, we want all our listeners to automatically find us at the new URL. We don't want any of them to lose their subscription because we changed our URL.
So in summary:
1. CAN we change our podcast URL (the one assigned to us by iTunes)?
2. Can we change the URL, but still keep our category-leading position and stats, exaclty as they are now? That is, will our old download stats move with us to the new URL, so we can retain our category-leading position?
3. Will podcast listeners going to the old URL automatically be forwarded to the new URL? Might any of our current listeners become unsubscribed as a result of the URL change?
I know this is an unusual, complicated, and multi-part question. I am looking for definitive, authoritative answers to all these questions.
Thank you very much for your help!!
David

You can omit the title altogether in the URL (together with the succeeding slash, of course). For example, my own podcast URL in the Store is
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sound-of-78s/id166389425?mt=2
but this works perfectly well:
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id166389425
Indeed you can even put your own title:
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/any_old_title/id166389425
So it's as simple as that!

ITunes' podcasts no longer download (?)

iTunes' podcast downloads had for the most part been downloading fine until the partition that they had been on was deleted and I had to recreate the iTunes folder on that partition from a backup.
When booting from my primary drive using 10.3.9 I can no longer manually, or automatically, download podcasts. And oddly, even podcasts that exist on that partition will not even open in iTunes.
Yet... when I boot from 10.4.9 on a secondary drive which shares the same recreated partition with my iTunes folder (with the podcasts on it) I can download podcasts manually and automatically and it will play all of them without problems.
Common sense would simply be to delete the com.apple.iTunes.plist and maybe even the com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist files. (Which I did.) But this didn't work even though I did this with iTunes inactive and rebooted. So... it would seem that the next step would be to reinstall iTunes. So I deleted both the iTunes app and the preference files again and rebooted. Still my podcasts won't either manually download or automatically download and the really strange thing is that the ones that were downloaded while booted from 10.4.9 will not play when booted from 10.3.9.
I then resubscribed to the broadcasts (i.e. podcasts) and though the available podcast lists appear for each broadcast with "Get" next to each... when I click on them they won't download and I get the icon at the far left showing there is a problem.
Though this might be a prebind problem for the last issue... I don't see how that would affect iTunes not being capable of downloading podcasts from 10.3.9.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've been listening to iTunes' podcasts for years without this problem so I can only imagine that it must have something to do with the fact that the partition had to be recreated (though I can't see how that fact would affect iTunes in this way when I DIRECTLY drop the podcast files on to the iTunes app icon... and they still will not play. This would bypass any prebind problem it would seem).
Thanks for reading this lengthy post.
Systems 10.3.9 and 10.4.9 on separate internal drives in the same box using iTunes 7.01 (7). Though I had been using iTunes 6.05 with 10.3.9 before this problem occurred. But when I couldn't solve the problem I upgraded to 7.01 with 10.3.9 -- since it was working with 10.4.9 I thought I'd give it a try -- but even that didn't solve the problem.)
RonL
Mac OS X (10.3.9) 10.3.9 and podcasts don't work, but 10.4.9 and podcasts do work

It appears that I solved the problem. (I like to post my solutions so as to both not waste peoples time and so that if this ever happens to someone else it might help.)
My iTunes alias of the iTunes folder that is by default placed in the Music folder (i.e. ~/Music/iTunes) was broken after the partition where I had moved it was recreated.
Or... since I also forced a re-prebinding (not a simple 'update prebinding') it may have been this since my music in the same folder (on the recreated iTunes folder on the recreated partition) was playing fine and from 10.4.9 the podcasts played fine.
So it may have been both... but anyway... the podcasts are working fine again.

My iphone 3g is disabled, its says connet to itunes,i tired in itunes but its says locked with the passcord .but there is no space to enter passcord

my iphone 3g is disabled, its says connet to itunes,i tired in itunes but its says locked with the passcord .but there is no space to enter passcord pls help

You'll have to connect in recovery mode iOS: Unable to update or restore
After that follow this article: iPhone and iPod touch: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen
If you cannot remember the passcode, you will need to restore your device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows you to reset your passcode and resync the data from the device (or restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone, iPad and iPod touch software.

How to upload podcasts which are not in the iTunes podcast library?

or how to create a playlist of podcasts?
I have some podcasts as mp3 files I'd like to upload. These podcasts are not in the Itunes podcast library. I downloaded them from another source. What I do not understand is why iTunes makes a difference between podcast mp3 files and music mp3 files. If I put my podcasts into a playlist and try to synchronise the playlist with iPhone, the files are not uploaded. Actually I do not see the playlist listed in the page "Music" of my device "iPhone".
Any ideas?

I've usually found using outer joins to be very efficient in performing NOT IN/NOT EXIST type operations.
WITH t1 AS (
SELECT 100 type, 1 begin_no, 10 end_no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 200 type, 10 begin_no, 20 end_no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 300 type, 20 begin_no, 30 end_no FROM dual
   , t2 AS (
SELECT 100 type, 5 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 100 type, 6 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 100 type, 11 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 100 type, 21 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 200 type, 5 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 200 type, 6 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 200 type, 11 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 200 type, 21 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 300 type, 5 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 300 type, 6 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 300 type, 11 no FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 300 type, 21 no FROM dual
SELECT t2.*
FROM t2
     , t1
WHERE t1.type (+)= t2.type
   AND t2.no BETWEEN t1.begin_no(+) AND t1.end_no(+)
   AND t1.type IS NULL;
output is:
TYPE     NO
200     21
200     6
200     5
300     11
300     6
300     5
100     21
100     11

Does not appear in my itunes podcast

A few days ago I asked Apple that eliminated my iTunes podcast to change the RSS feed on the other, but now that I have removed will not let me upload a new feed and tells me has already been sent. How I can fix this?

You will need to change the title slightly. You can always change it back afterwards, assuming that the method you are using to create your podcast does not change the feed URL when you do this.

ITunes Podcasts + Adobe illustrator CS6 = painful acoustic feedback

Hello everybody,
I have a big problem with my iMac. It offen crash with a painful acoustic feedback. I am loosing my audition with this crap...
It happen when using Adobe illustrator CS6 and iTunes Podcasts.
Thanks for your help.

Podcast Videocast/ Audio only not showing up in itunes podcast feed

Hi Everyone, I work on a site called Truthdig and we can't get our latest audio (mp3) only podcast to show up in our itunes podcast feed, latest podcast episodes have been video. is this what is causing the problem? Could it be something else? Advice? Wisdom? Please help.

FYI, your link to your podcast in iTunes is wrong, it should be
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=299750047
Your feed validates, and I can't see anything wrong with it. Plainly the iTunes Store is failing to pick it up: it's been known for the Store not to be happy with feed URLs with a '?' in them, but presumably you haven't changed the feed URL since the original episode?
I can only suggest you approach Support:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/podcast/
(email link at the bottom of the page).

In iTunes, podcasts are sorted in the library alphabetically. In Version 1.2.1, there is no order and there are duplicates. Can you sort the library? and how do you remove duplicates of the same podcast (not episode)?

In iTunes podcasts were sorted in the library alphabetically. In Version 1.2.1, there is no ability to sort and podcasts (not episodes) are duplicated. Can you sort the Podcasts in the library section? How do you remove or consolidate duplicates?

In iTunes podcasts were sorted in the library alphabetically. In Version 1.2.1, there is no ability to sort and podcasts (not episodes) are duplicated. Can you sort the Podcasts in the library section? How do you remove or consolidate duplicates?

11.3 iTunes Podcast mess-up - will Apple ever do something about it?

This is the second major Podcast mess-up within 10 months!!!!!!!
Today is Monday July 21 - I downloaded the fatal for podcasts List View and very confusing and annoying for podcasts MyPodcasts View on Friday July 11 (morning) -
on Sunday July 13 Apple had an update to correct mistakes concerning iBooks i.e. they notice when they have erred ;-(
But podcasts?
who cares about them, they aren't buyers, their plight isn't even acknowledged (should I dare to ask for a "sorry" or would that be presumptuous?) ...
Since they fixed iBooks so speedily I assume that there are buyers for their meagre offering.
i.e. today is the 11th day after they caused the wreckage to ListView - the revelation that MyPodcastView remains still limpingly operable was found via the community. They don't allow feedback for 11.3, at least they have it not on their list just like 11.2.2 isn't there. That makes me guess that by their reckoning podcasts is in top shape and all those grievances which you'll find in other threads searching for 11.3 are all due to ignorance and/or un-geek-worthy equipment.
Are they preparing Podcasts for the trash bin? What are the experiences of the community? Is this a one-off or has this happened with other free offerings?
How are Microsoft users of iTunes podcasts faring? Better or worse?
https://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

yes fox27 that new not synching feature between list view and play lists must have been generated via the wet dream of a super-genius
all in all I have by now resigned myself to the realisation that the golden age of podcast listening is over
I am cutting down on my list of subscriptions on a daily basis because otherwise I'd spend all time managing them and no time listening to any of them.
One of the many mysteries that remain for me though is if Apple wants to get rid of the podcast listeners (terrible freebie aficionados that they are) what do the major book publishers say about it? Though the number of presentations by authors on book-tour has dwindled notably since the beginning of the financial crisis there are still some plus lots of interesting long interviews which will be a lot more trouble to find.
i.e. Apple's neglect aka mistreatment of "us" hurts lots of companies whose products Apple wants to sell - I don't get the logic of it all - it is confusing.
Why haven't the book tour authors anything to say about it? Maybe alerting the stars amongst them like Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, Max Hastings etc. etc. to what is going on might be a way to get Apple to pay attention.

So tired of iTunes & Podcasts, recommendations?

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