Comments on: Podcast Playlists No Longer Play Continuously

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:00:12 +0000

Ah! I thought I was imagining things about my iPhone not having the problem. Thanks for mentioning it. I think you saved my sanity with that!

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:54:12 +0000

Thank you for saving my sanity!! I often switch between shuffle and not, so my podcasts seemed to be randomly playing all or not. It was completely driving me crazy as to why this flipped back and forth.

This is only an issue on my iPod classic as my iPhone plays podcasts continuously regardless of the shuffle setting.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:11:59 +0000

Thanks, I’ve been so frustrated by having to start a new podcast every time the previous one ends. It’s not good for parties and it’s not good for work. You’ve just made my life so much easier!

By: John Ulster

John Ulster — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:17:02 +0000

Maria,

Thanks for keeping this info available. It’s Apr 2011 and it still works the same way.

John

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:44:56 +0000

I tried everything else (that I could find through a google search and here) and the ONLY thing that worked for me was to change the media type from podcast to music. Now I can actually hear my whole play list instead of just one podcast.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:50:53 +0000

I stumbled upon a solution on my shuffle. I hold down the voice over button (little button on the top/center), which allows you to scroll through the categories of podcasts, like adam carola to economist, etc. I also switched off the skip when shuffled settings on each podcast file. works great.

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:49:01 +0000

@Matt
This is odd. I’m using a 5th Generation iPod Nano AND an original video iPod for listening to podcasts and they both work with the setup as described above. (Just used the video iPod while walking this morning; heard 10 podcast episodes back to back.) I still use the script that one of the commenters provided to periodically set the skip option for all the podcasts on my computer. Wish I could be more help, but I really don’t know what the problem is. Best of luck resolving it.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:42:46 +0000

Thanks for the confirmation and I tried that last night and had no joy at all today on my commute to work. I still had to manually select the next podcast to play, unless there were multiple podcasts of the same series and then they would play back to back.

My iPod Classic did show that I had 4 playlists availabled (the 3 I selected and the on the go playlist I guess) but no amount of clicking would enable me to actually go into the option and select a playlist.

I have just done some playing and it seems there is another utterly stupid bug in Apples software. Unless I also sync some music onto the my Classic I am unable to go into the playlist menu to select a playlist to play.

Given that I only use iTunes for podcasts and I had no music imported at all, this is nonsense. I have had to import a music file and select sync music in order to access the playlists of podcasts.

So not only did Apple break a very useful bit of functionality but they created a situation where it is mandatory to have music in iTunes and Synced in order to play podcasts in any useable way.

If it wasn’t for the fact I want to be able to enjoy video podcasts on the train, I’d ditch this classic and go back to the nano. At least that hasn’t been hamstrung by over-keen developers with no quality control.

(can you tell I am not impressed?)

:-)

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:29:19 +0000

@Matt
I think that creating the playlist and playing THAT is an important part of getting my technique to work. But creating a playlist is easy if you use smart playlists. It’ll automatically be updated for you. My playlists, for example, are based on the podcast names.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:48:38 +0000

I just stumbled across this blog entry.

My experience is that I used to have an old iPod Nano (2nd gen) and when I syned that I could just hit play and it would play sequentionally through all my podcasts (I only used it for podcasts) it was perfect in this respect. Simple, functional, and no messing abour required. All I needed was tha ability to play video podcasts.

I have just moved to using an iPod Classic, in order to play said video podcasts, and guess what. I can no longer just press play to start playing through everything. It seems I have to mess about with smart playlists and other stuff.

I have tried your suggested fix and it doesn’t work for me, maybe because I have not yet created a playlist and synced that to my Clasic.

Come on Apple, stop removing the simple and useful functionality, it pisses people off!.

By: Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:12:50 +0000

I have found that the easiest solution is to just to select all my podcasts, then go to “get info”, then to “Options” and change the “media type” from podcast to music. Then you can treat them just like any other music item.

By: tara

tara — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:03:32 +0000

I also turned them into Music Video’s and that worked for what I needed them to do.

By: Cathy W

Cathy W — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:05:01 +0000

Thanks – this post is still helpful three years later! I feel like every time I get a software update from Apple I lose functionality of something that I really like.

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:08:14 +0000

All worked fine for my podcast playlists until a month ago, with the upgrade. I have an old ipod nano. I’m very frustrated since then. Dangerous driving indeed.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:11:53 +0000

Hi,

I have Itunes 8 and none of these suggestions work for me. I’ve tried them all. I’m so frustrated, because, before I updated to Itunes 8, my podcasts played continuously. I’m beginning to think that they don’t know what they’re doing.

Kimberly