Sort Problem with "My Podcasts"

Since updating to iTunes 11.1, the list of "My Podcasts" are in an indiscernible random order (not by date, name, etc.) and I see no way of forcing them into alphabetical order. This makes this particular screen useless since the order also seems to change on me. Is there a way to sort this list, or am I missing something obvious?

It looks like you can manually drag and drop them into your chosen order. Of course, this is a major headache, but like you can I can't see a way to automatically sort them alphabetically.
(To be honest I've never used the "My Podcasts" view, because I didn't like it before, but now the "List" view is basically unusable.)

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As a result, all podcasts must being fully downloaded and ready to listen to prior to leaving for work. Unfortunately, even after fiddling with various settings in the app, I can't seem to get content to stick in the app. There are plenty of Unplayed episodes, but when I'm ready to listen, they're not really there and must be re-downloaded or streamed.
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Simple really:
Delete the Podcasts app from your iPhone.
Restart your iPhone.
Continue managing your podcasts from iTunes, like you did under iOS 5.
After restarting your phone, Podcasts will play via the Music app on your phone again.

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hey guys, I'll get straight into it. My problem is that many of the songs and podcasts in my library come up with the little exclamation mark when I havn't changed anything or deleted anything, so I have to find the original files, which occasisionally just dissapear for no apparent reason. Also I have problems with d/l podcasts as sometimes it wont d/l the newest edition etc but comes up with the little '!' mark. I have just upgraded to iTunes 7 and although the problem was occuring before the upgrade just aggravated it, and messed up my library files causing me to revert to an older library.
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У меня проблема с удалением подкастов с моего iPod Touch (версия прошивки 2.2, iTunes 8.0.2.20)
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Some time ago, through the iPod Touch I downloaded some podcasts, at other times from the computer, after all synchronized (rewritten podcasts from my computer and ipod). Today I want to delete everything and in sync to my iPod settings, I took a tick synchronization and applied. After all the playlists from podcast has been cleared, but the files themselves remain as the free space was at 3 Gb fewer regulations.
Using SharePod checked their version and proved that SharePod saw no deleted files to be erased, but because version of the database other than the fact that he could understand the program, I can not remove them. Please help.

You can only sync with one computer. I would backup to one computer and then restore from backup.
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Hi,
I'm having problems with my new podcast. It's already been approved and release and when I look at it on the iTunes Music Store I can listen to my mp3 file without a problem but when I subscribe to it my podcast list doesn't show any files!!! Please help!

Okay, I took a look at your podcast (in the Store . . . then I subscribed to it . . . then I looked at it in a browser). Anyway . . .
The reason your podcast doesn't work when subscribed-to is that you have some bad code in your rss file. Here is the run-down from Feed Validator.
The highlights are: 1) you have a "bad" (unsupported) character in your <copyright> tag; 2) the <itunes:description> tag only goes under the <item> level, and shouldn't be under <channel>; 3)you have two <pubDate> tags, and instead of "6 May", you need to have "06 May"; 4) you have too many keywords in your <itunes:keywords> tag; 5) you are missing the <itunes:explict> tag.
Those are a lot of things for you to fix - and the reason I list them is that I want you to understand what is/was wrong with your feed. But since it is quite a bit, I went through and edited your code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
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<title>Kingdom Life Frankfurt</title>
<link>http://www.kingdomlife-frankfurt.com/</link>
<description>Sermons from KLF</description>
<language>en-uk</language>
<copyright>KLF © 2007</copyright>
<managingEditor>[email protected]</managingEditor>
<itunes:author>Kingdom Life Frankfurt</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary>Sermons from KLF</itunes:summary>
<itunes:owner>
<itunes:name>Richard Morschel</itunes:name>
<itunes:email>[email protected]</itunes:email>
</itunes:owner>
<itunes:image href="http://www.kingdomlife-frankfurt.com/logo.jpg" />
<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:category text="Religion & Spirituality">
<itunes:category text="Christianity"/>
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<item>
<title>KLF Sermon 2007-05-06</title>
<itunes:author>Richard Morschel</itunes:author>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<enclosure url="http://www.kingdomlife-frankfurt.com/podcasts/2007/05/KLFSermon2007-05-06.mp3" length="29349645" type="audio/mpeg"/>
<guid>http://www.kingdomlife-frankfurt.com/podcasts/2007/05/KLFSermon2007-05-06.mp3</guid>
<itunes:duration>30:34</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>Kingdom,Life,Frankfurt,kingdomlife,English,language,speaking,c hurch,charismatic,Frankfurt,Germany,Holy Spirit,revival,international,Christian,Protestant,Evangelical,holy,Word and Spirit,pentecost,Kingdom of God,American,British,Richard,Morschel</itunes:keywords>
<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Now, all that you have to do is copy the above code and paste it over the old code in your file. This should fix all of your problems with iTunes.
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I am having problems getting my podcasts to run. When I hit play if comes up and says...
Episode Unavailable
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See this thread for more details of people experiences your problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5477034
If I don't sync my phone with iTunes, this particular problem doesn't show up (although there are still other sync'ing bugs that do show up).

Problems with my podcast updating on Podcast App.

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My podcast What It Is, updates on iTunes very quickly after we post it on our wordpress blog. However, we are having some major issues with the podcast on the podcast app.
-The episodes do not update on the podcast app. You need to go to the search function, search the show and then download the new episode. The auto download and updates DO NOT work for our subscribers.
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Should I send an email to iTunes support or is there a problem I can fix?
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The last 2 days, my podcast http://www.rippernet.com/Rippercast/Podcast/Podcast.html has been unable to be downloaded via the iTunes Music Store. People can subscribe ok and have the episodes downloaded into iTunes but cannot get it via it's Music Store page. I get the error message "There was a problem downloading 'Rippercast-Your Podcast on the Jack the Ripper Murders'. The URL http://www.rippernet.com/Site/Podcast/rss.xml" could not be found on the server." It worked fine for roughly month up until this.
I use iWeb and iDisk with a dotmac account for my podcast.
Yesterday I used Dreamweaver to add a line into the rss feed for Music Store artwork, but was having problems a day before this.
Any help would be appreciated!
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I've gone into the rss.xml file located on my idisk at Web/Sites/RC/Podcast and edited it in Dreamweaver to input the 'itunes new feed url' script to match the one that itunes says it cannot find.
What seems to have happened is that my Url was changed somehow from "rippernet/Site Podcast" to "rippernet/rippercast/podcast/podcast"
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have a look;
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1975/untitledgj2.png
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I'm having the same problem! The "subscribe" buttons do not seem to be activated.
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I have submitted a new (french) podcast last week and it doesn't seem to be updating in iTunes.
It does appear in the browser's list if you suscribe the podcast for the first time and if you check at the XML, but if you "update" manually the podcsat it doesn't appear automatically.
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No problem. Your English is better than mine...and it's my only language.
I was able to subscribe and download all of your videos...either by the "Get All" button or the "get" button next to each episode.
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Remember that the iTunes client software is on a schedule as to when it checks for new episodes and what it does when it finds one. In your iTunes preferences under "Podcasts" are options the default is to check "everyday". Meaning that if it checked at 8am on Monday it won't check again until 8am on Tuesday. The other options are what it does when it finds a new episode...the default is to download the latest episode. There are options to "do nothing" and "download all".
ayez un beau jour !
Erik

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I created a proper podcast with quicktime etc which launches CORRECTLY in firefox, internet explorer and opera. in Safari, however, on clicking the podcast, a CODE windo is launched, so there is obviously some error somewhere.
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The problem is in your page code (or lack of it).
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Can you identify the problem with my podcast xml?

I've checked this with the suggested feed checker and all looks good yet my podcasts are not showing up in itunes (well over a week now)
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Your feed appears to be OK, and when subscribed to manually in iTunes (from the 'Advanced' menu) all the episodes appear. (However the categories are obsolete: you should choose your categories from those listed here.)
I couldn't find your podcast in the Store by searching, so as you haven't given its URL I can't check that.
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