Help needed with iTunes.

[Diana]

Last weekend I re-installed my notebook (actually my husband did) and since then I have been unable to play the podcasts in itunes. All the music is there (my own music) and can be played. However, supposedly 121 podcasts are in the folder "podcast" and according to this notice (121) have not yet been played but I cannot find them. Only one each -in NFS or NIS Advanced or NIS Intermediate - can be seen and played. I downloaded NIS advanced #76 again just to see where to find it but it disappeared also.
Can anyone help? (Any podcasts that I downloaded directly to my computer - not through itunes - are also once again in itunes and can be played.)

[greytop]

... However, supposedly 121 podcasts are in the folder "podcast" and according to this notice (121) have not yet been played but I cannot find them. Only one each -in NFS or NIS Advanced or NIS Intermediate - can be seen and played. I downloaded NIS advanced #76 again just to see where to find it but it disappeared also....Sounds like the "missing" ones are just the titles that are available from iTunes. Do they have a small button alongside labelled "get" (I think)? You can download them again, right click the title and set "do not auto-delete". Otherwise it just keeps the latest podcast.

I must confess I don't much like all Apple's built in defaults and options as it never seems that you can predict what will happen next time you hit the SYNC button ;D. That plus the usual format problems if you want to do anything else with files. The iPod works well enough - once you get what you want on to it. At present I'm in totally manual mode so at least I know who to blame if it goes wrong.

[Rizzo La Rata]

Hi Diana

What exactly have you done to reintegrate the podcasts? On my computer I have done this quite often now and never encountered any problem. Usually I rename the old folder of the library and simply drag and drop it to iTunes, upon which iTunes starts to copy everything, including the podcasts, into its new folder. I hit the subscribe button, and am done.

Greetings

[Diana]

Sounds like the "missing" ones are just the titles that are available from iTunes. Do they have a small button alongside labelled "get" (I think)? You can download them again, right click the title and set "do not auto-delete". Otherwise it just keeps the latest podcast.

I must confess I don't much like all Apple's built in defaults and options as it never seems that you can predict what will happen next time you hit the SYNC button ;D. That plus the usual format problems if you want to do anything else with files. The iPod works well enough - once you get what you want on to it. At present I'm in totally manual mode so at least I know who to blame if it goes wrong.

Thanks for helping!
The missing ones do not even show up so I cannot hit the "get" button. HOWEVER, I did set "do not auto-delete" to the 3 that were visible and then took another look into "recently added" (or however it is called in English. In German is "zuletzt hingefügt")and lo and behold it looks like they are all there (they weren't there the last time I checked:confused:). They are a bit mixed up along with everything I have ever put into itunes, but I think I can sort it out now.

[Diana]

Hi Diana

What exactly have you done to reintegrate the podcasts? On my computer I have done this quite often now and never encountered any problem. Usually I rename the old folder of the library and simply drag and drop it to iTunes, upon which iTunes starts to copy everything, including the podcasts, into its new folder. I hit the subscribe button, and am done.

Greetings

Well, I have found them now in "zuletzt hingefügt", although they were not there before. Now I will drag and drop them into the podcast folder or into my own podcast folder if the above doesn't work (I tried dragging one and it didn't appear in the podcast folder so perhaps I need a new folder - or maybe it will appear much later like the others did.:rolleyes:) Thanks for helping.

[eldeano]

Well, I have found them now in "zuletzt hingefügt", although they were not there before. Now I will drag and drop them into the podcast folder or into my own podcast folder if the above doesn't work (I tried dragging one and it didn't appear in the podcast folder so perhaps I need a new folder - or maybe it will appear much later like the others did.:rolleyes:) Thanks for helping.

I was about to suggest zuletzt hingefügt.

[Edith]

I was about to suggest zuletzt hingefügt.

:D

[Diana]

I was about to suggest zuletzt hingefügt.
;D;D
Looking at this more carefully it should actually be "zuletzt hinzugefügt":D

This folder has disappeared because I decided to start anew. Somehow I did get all the podcasts to appear finally by clicking (accidentally) on one of them in Explorer. They appeared threefold in iTunes however!!!

[gtappend]

Somehow I did get all the podcasts to appear finally by clicking (accidentally) on one of them in Explorer. They appeared threefold in iTunes however!!!

I suspect you've now added them to the music catalogue. If the podcast MP3 files aren't where iTunes is expecting them, it won't find them from the podcast list (or will ask if you want to search for them).

If you've still got the files and open them normally through iTunes or Explorer, then it thinks they're music files and adds them to the library.

When I had a similar thing happen I moved the files out of the way and re-created my subscriptions so that iTunes only deal with the new files. But then I don't synchronise with an iPod, so I wasn't too worried that it didn't know where to find the others.

[Diana]

I suspect you've now added them to the music catalogue. If the podcast MP3 files aren't where iTunes is expecting them, it won't find them from the podcast list (or will ask if you want to search for them).

If you've still got the files and open them normally through iTunes or Explorer, then it thinks they're music files and adds them to the library.

When I had a similar thing happen I moved the files out of the way and re-created my subscriptions so that iTunes only deal with the new files. But then I don't synchronise with an iPod, so I wasn't too worried that it didn't know where to find the others.

Yes, everything seems to be sorted out now but I still can't figure out why iTunes knew that I had 120 podcasts but would not show them (empty folder) until I clicked onto one of them in Explorer. Then they all appeared in iTunes. Actually I think it best not to try to figure iTunes out.:rolleyes:

[gtappend]

Yes, everything seems to be sorted out now but I still can't figure out why iTunes knew that I had 120 podcasts but would not show them (empty folder) until I clicked onto one of them in Explorer. Then they all appeared in iTunes. Actually I think it best not to try to figure iTunes out.:rolleyes:

I suspect that you restored your iTunes library database and that knew which podcast episodes were on the hard disk before you reinstalled. It looked for them and then realised that they weren't where it expected them to be.

[Diana]

I suspect that you restored your iTunes library database and that knew which podcast episodes were on the hard disk before you reinstalled. It looked for them and then realised that they weren't where it expected them to be.

Right - could very well be what happened.