Syncing Music and Podcasts on separate computers BROKEN in 8.1

Until I updated to 8.1 I was able to sync my iPhone with my music library at home and my podcasts at work. After I updated I had a problem with this and reformatted my iPhone to resolve it and attempted to try it again. I synced with a few particular music playlists at home and then synced with my podcasts at work. I went home that evening to sync with my music and my podcasts were no longer available on my iPhone, however the space taken up by my podcasts did not change. I then went back to work to resync my podcasts, but there was not enough space left on my iPhone to sync my podcasts. Now I have space taken up on my iPhone by podcasts that I can not access.
Is anyone having the same issues? I hope this is resolved in the next update to iTunes. If anyone has a solution to this, let me know.

I have the same problem. The only way I've found to clear the space taken up by the phantom podcasts is to restore the phone. This clears the space but the problem still happens again.

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I did some more checking as I still had my old computer online.
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Under DEVICES, the TV was listed, along with MUSIC, PHOTOS, PLAYLISTS, much like an iPod/Touch.
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Make sure nothing else is managing the TV.
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Thanks for the response. I did try shutting the phone off, but that didn't help. I ended up just deleting all the "empty" playlists I had on my iPhone and tried checking and unchecking the "Sync Music" checkbox a few times. Odd thing is that it keeps re-checking itself one second it's unchecked and re-sycing and the next it's checked again. So I did the other obvious thing that I hadn't tried and re-booted my Mac and my phone again. Now that the playlists were deleted on the phone side, it's re-syncing again. This time it's taking the hours I would expect as it it now copying songs over... so I might have it working.
I did it first with the podcasts, it took a while to re-copy, but then still came up with the "this podcast it temporarily unavailable. So that is still messed up. I have no playlists, but an copying by artist instead. I'll have to wait another few hours to see if it worked.
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