Note: this post is a bit windows orientated; for some reason I thought you'd sent this to viphone, but I'm sending it anyway in the hope that it may help others as well. John,
I've also had this happen and it's really really annoying. Unlike you, I like to download / sync my podcasts every morning while I shower so that there on my iPhone for the rest of the day, so this tends to be a huge problem. I've actually given up on using iTunes for podcasts and have switched over to juice. I'm not sure if it's the best podcatcher out there these days since I've stuck with it for a few years now or if theres a mac version come to think of it, but it always seems to do the job. Heres where things start to get interesting though. I like things to be as seemless as possible, especially in the mornings, so I had to figgure out a easy way for the podcasts to be downloaded via juice and then imported into my iTunes library more or less automaticly. So, heres how I have everything set up. You should be able to duplicate this using apple script but I can't provide any examples I'm afraid. 1: Juice downloads my podcasts when ever it wants to; this is usually with in minutes of them being uploaded. They then get saved in the automaticly add to itunes library folder. It would be great if iTunes would simply add all of these files to it's library, but alas, that would be too simple. Itunes only adds files that are in the root of the automaticly add to itunes folder, completely disregarding any sub folders. This is a problem since juice makes a sub folder for each podcast that I'm subscribed to. 2: I wrote a batch script that inspects the automaticly add to itunes folder and any sub folders that exist with in it. The script grabs all the mp3's that are in the different sub folders and moves them to the root of the automaticly add to itunes folder after which, the now empty sub folders automaticly get deleeted. This is set to run every morning, just before I get up. It was a bit of a pain to set up, but it actually works quite well now. I always get my podcasts and everything is done automaticly. Hope that helped someone. Ben. On 09/01/2011, John D. Lipsey <johnl1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list: > > I've now had this happen twice. For reasons I can't figure out, ITunes all > of a sudden stops updating my podcasts. The only reason I know this is > because I have one hourly news and one or two daily podcasts that haven't > updated in the last several days. The only way I've found to fix this is to > unsubscribe and resubscribe to all of my podcasts. > > Anybody know why this keeps happening? > > I'm seriously considering looking into alternatives to ITunes for my > podcasts, seeing as I never sync them with my phone anyway and just listen > to them locally. So, if this problem continues and nobody knows how to fix > it, I'm also open to any alternative podcatchers anyone can suggest. > > TIA, > > -John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
