Questions tagged [podcasts]
Podcasts are a series of media files that are released episodically.
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What apps are available for subscribing to podcasts directly on the iPhone
I listen to a lot of podcasts - A lot of stuff from twit, cnet, smodcast and npr. I sync my phone about once every two weeks or so which for a lot of my daily podcasts is not good. For twit there's ...
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How to add podcasts manually to the new Podcasts.app on macOS Catalina
I'm on macOS Catalina (10.15 Beta (19A471t)), and I'm trying to add manually downloaded podcasts that I copied from an iTunes library to the new Podcasts.app.
I tried to simply drag the files into ...
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How do I get podcasts downloaded directly to my iPhone and iPad to match the ones on my Mac?
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I have a podcast subscription on my Mac. For example, Marketplace. It's a daily podcast, and I often get them by downloading them to the Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) with iTunes (currently ...
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How can I add mp3 files as podcasts to my iPhone using iTunes?
I am using iTunes 12.5 on Windows 10 with an iPhone 5s.
Sometimes I download hour-long .mp3 files that I want to put onto my iPhone as podcasts, so that it automatically remembers where I am in my ...
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CarPlay starts playing music after activating Siri even if no music was playing before
This issue has been driving me nuts: if I listen to music or a podcast, pause it, and then activate Siri using “Hey Siri,” the moment the Siri interaction ends it resumes playing the music/podcast, ...
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Is there any way to view full podcast title on my iPhone running iOS 4?
Most of the time the podcast title is long and it is truncated with dots at the end.
I think since iPhone OS 3.?, title font size has gotten smaller so I can see more of the title.
However, I still ...
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What does "plays" really count in iTunes?
iTunes displays the number of "plays" for each track. What exactly does this mean?
For example, playing a little bit of a track does not seem to increment the number. But playing most, but not all, ...
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Can I import my old podcast MP3s into iTunes?
The title pretty much says it all.
If I have 25 podcast MP3s, how can I associate them with the podcast in iTunes?
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How can I view the raw XML of an RSS feed in Safari (or Reeder)?
I want to see the raw XML of an RSS feed for a podcast.
In Safari, as of Lion formatted XML files is supported. But RSS feeds are not formatted that way and instead presented in Safari's RSS Reader ...
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iTunes 11: Default Podcast settings
I would like to change the default settings for all podcasts.
I know you can edit each one of them individually, but I would like to change the default for all to "Download All" and keep "All ...
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How to delete a podcast from new ios6 Podcast app?
The new ios 6 has Podcasts broken out into their own application.
I've got a bunch of old podcasts there for some reason. I can figure out how to delete all the episodes, but I can't figure out how ...
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How do I stop iTunes from automatically assigning a hollow star rating to podcasts?
I’m having a problem with podcasts in iTunes. Here’s how it seems to work:
I listen to a few episodes of a podcast, rating them as I go. (I use the 2-star rating to mark podcasts for deletion once I’...
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Why do these podcast episodes say they are temporarily unavailable even though they look like they have been downloaded?
I am having an issue where certain podcasts in a location with no internet access (see "no service" on the upper left). It looks like they have been downloaded based on the fact that:
There is no ...
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Why is the symlink I created inside an application container to allow for external storage not working?
I was trying to get around Vemedio's Instacast limitation on storage location by symlinking (ln -s) the Episodes folder in ~Library/Containers/com.vemedio.osx.Instacast/Data/Documents/Instacast to ...
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Where has my Podcast playlist on my iPhone Gone?
Where have my podcasts gone from my playlists on my iPhone??? I used to be able to put my podcasts into a playlist in iTunes, but now they don't seem to go onto a playlist and can only be played via ...
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Setting an MP3s as podcasts in iTunes
I have an iPod Nano 3rd Generation that I use to listen both music and podcasts from iTunes.
Now the issue: I have a bunch of non-iTunes podcasts in MP3 format that I want to add to my iPod as ...
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How to hear just Maps' spoken directions, without triggering music/podcasts?
I have my iPhone 13 Pro connected via Bluetooth to my car stereo. Normally, I listen to podcasts or music while navigating via Maps. The spoken directions momentarily pause the music or podcast. ...
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Can I view the list of songs within a podcast while playing it?
When playing a podcast on my iPhone, can I view the names of the songs (or whatever show notes are embedded into the podcast metadata?
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How to remove podcast from home lock screen?
Is it possible to turn the podcast home screen to off?
Currently if I lock my phone, the last podcast I was listening to is displaying and if I accidently press the start button it turns on.
I don't ...
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The podcast app is displaying the incorrect subscribed podcast
I am using the official Apple iOS podcast app.
A strange thing started happening 2 months back.
I have 5 podcasts that I subscribe to, one of them being the Joe Rogan Experience. One day the Joe ...
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Can't change media kind from music to podcast in iTunes 12
I've been downloading mp3s from a podcast's archives on their website (the archived episodes aren't available on iTunes). After adding these files to iTunes, I'm unable to do the logical thing, which ...
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How do I view the list of podcast chapters on an iPad using iOS 5?
I subscribe to Tiesto's Club Life Podcast, and the episodes are released as very superbly crafted AAC files. Aside from containing audio data, they also:
Define Podcast "Chapters" marked at the start/...
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Will restore from iCloud backup erase podcast.app queue (iOS)?
My iPhone is sluggish so I want to restore it.
Concerned I’ll lose my long podcast queue if I restore. Would iCloud/iTunes restore retain my queue?
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Correct settings to record computer audio with Garageband, internal mic and ishowYouAudio
I have the following aggregate device to record audio on the computer however I am sometimes getting some very bad feedback buzzing noise can be heard in this podcast episode.
https://cafe....
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Is it possible to download a podcast directly to an iPod Touch without jailbreaking?
Specifically with the iPod Touch that was released in September 2010, is it possible to download a podcast directly to the unit. The answers that I've found so far involve jailbreaking, which I'm not ...
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Does iTunes want us to delete podcasts from the list?
So after the Podcasts.app for iPhone got another update today, I once again got stuck with trying to manage my Podcasts, and once again it drives me crazy.
Currently I am wondering this: In iTunes 11 ...
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