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Administrivia => Support Desk => Topic started by: benjaminjb on July 14, 2014, 01:30:55 AM

Title: EA Podcast (and all podcasts) having trouble downloading (Mac/iTunes/updated)
Post by: benjaminjb on July 14, 2014, 01:30:55 AM
Is anyone else having some terrible trouble with the podcast function of iTunes? Whenever I try to refresh my podcasts/download, iTunes hangs and has to be force quit. Is this just me or are other people experiencing this?
Title: Re: EA Podcast (and all podcasts) having trouble downloading (Mac/iTunes/updated)
Post by: Ocicat on July 14, 2014, 08:34:15 AM
Yup!  It seems iTunes has decided it hates podcasts, at least on my iPhone.  I made a post about it some months back:

http://forum.escapeartists.net/index.php?topic=7773.0
Title: Re: EA Podcast (and all podcasts) having trouble downloading (Mac/iTunes/updated)
Post by: Windup on July 15, 2014, 03:44:38 AM
Is anyone else having some terrible trouble with the podcast function of iTunes? Whenever I try to refresh my podcasts/download, iTunes hangs and has to be force quit. Is this just me or are other people experiencing this?

Are you using iTunes 11.3?  I think they came out with an update like last night and that solved some of the problems I've been having. Also, are you synching to a device that runs apps (iPhone or iPod touch) or a dedicated iPod?
Title: Re: EA Podcast (and all podcasts) having trouble downloading (Mac/iTunes/updated)
Post by: adrianh on July 15, 2014, 08:16:40 AM
I've just given up in iTunes / Podcasts.app for podcasts on OS X / iOS.

I've switched to Downcast (http://www.downcastapp.com/). It's a few quid, but works much, much more reliably in my experience.
Title: Re: EA Podcast (and all podcasts) having trouble downloading (Mac/iTunes/updated)
Post by: benjaminjb on July 15, 2014, 06:12:34 PM
Windup, I'm primarily using my iPod (nano), so iTunes being buggy with podcasts is unfortunate. (What, am I going to go back to listening to music?)

On my iPhone, the podcast app seems to be working, so I might try to migrate my listening to that; or possibly try some other OS app like Downcast if it can sync with an old-school iPod.

Still, this problem has only cropped up in the last few weeks--around the time I updated iTunes (which is up to date)--so I'm hoping that Apple might fix it.
Title: Re: EA Podcast (and all podcasts) having trouble downloading (Mac/iTunes/updated)
Post by: GeorgeTrish on December 14, 2016, 06:29:24 AM
The forum looks different today and I cant access it with Tap-a-Talk on my iPhone. No problem accessing other forums with Tap a Talk - just Kahr. Anybody else having trouble?
Title: Re: EA Podcast (and all podcasts) having trouble downloading (Mac/iTunes/updated)
Post by: art90op on December 31, 2016, 03:43:22 PM
I've been having the same problem - on multiple IOS devices !  :'(