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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Podcasts not syncing - here’s the fix

Can’t sync your podcasts? Playlists with podcasts don’t show up on your iPhone? Here’s the fix..

Previously the Podcast bug affected only the playlist order, but in the current iTunes 9.0.3 and iPhone 3.1.3 firmware (for example) the bug will remove any Podcast in a playlist from the iPod section of the device. If the Playlist is comprised of only podcasts, the playlist will not even be visible on the device (it will show in the iTunes sync).

To return podcasts to a playlist, you have to use the iTunes 9 trick:

Right-click your particular playlist and choose EDIT SMART PLAYLIST

Turn off LIVE UPDATING

SYNC

Then your podcasts return in a playlist in the correct order, but you’ll have to toggle it on again to update the playlist list.

This bug has existed since iTunes 9 and it seems to only be getting worse. Hopefully Apple will fix it soon - I can’t believe they don’t want us to listen to podcasts in a playlist! C’mon Apple - fix this already!