Comments on: Managing iTunes Downloads

By: Marion Delgado

Marion Delgado — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:11:02 +0000

Same here, and my problem is clearwire throttling. It typically loads about 90% then throttles down to dialup speed. At that point, iTunes deletes the download and gives an error. A 200MB podcast with Itunes typically takes about 1.2-2 Gigs of downloading.

iTunes is a good way to FIND podcasts but the VERY WORST WAY ON EARTH to pretend to download them. I accept that now. Go to the url in a browser. download it with save as. Never go back to itunes and care. I have wasted about 100 man hours so far until I wised up.

By: Frustrated

Frustrated — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:52:07 +0000

I have the same problem as the last guy, why is there no one talking about this anywhere? I am sure we are not the only two are having these issues? Is there any solution yet?

By: Poby

Poby — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:42:02 +0000

Please dear you people who write iTunes how-to-s. Try tu use it for a while on a slow connection! Then you WILL run into problems. Almost every day I will experience that if my connection drops out for a short moment (too short for me to notice), iTunes goes “oh, whatÂ´s this? No connection?” and stops my podcast download. Yes, stop it. No auto-resume, no keep the 97% it already downloaded (granted, on some it does). I never thought about these things when I lived in the 1st world with my 2 M/b line. Now I live in the 3rd world with approx. 265 kb, and iTunes is now a nightmare. Is it the line or version 7? I just now had Macbreak Weekly 90% downloaded when it stopped and I had to restart it again. I have yet to see any professional reviewer write about this, and IÂ´ve been doing a LOT of searching on this topic. Puuh, thanks for listening…!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:58:49 +0000

my issue is the same, i cant d/l my episodes fully b/c it keeps restarting, is there ne thing useful i can do about this problem to fix it?

By: John

John — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:41:55 +0000

Paul,

After you delete the partial podcast click on the triangle while holding the shift (windows) or option (mac) key to revive the list to have the item you deleted show up, but this time you can re download it. I still wish iTunes would be smart enough to know it wasn’t a complete download in the first place, but that’s for next time.

John

By: bart

bart — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:37:59 +0000

I solve problem of grayed out, recent podcast downloads by closing and restarting iTunes.

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:09:33 +0000

I’ve never had iTunes interrupt a download, so I can’t advise you from experience. I will confirm that if you delete a podcast from the Podcast list, it’s as if it never existed. The only way to get it back on the list is to delete the podcast subscription and resubscribe to it. (At least that’s the only way I know.)

Back to your initial problem, does the interrupted download remain in the Downloads window (Figure 3 above)? If so, there should be some kind of button there to resume it.

You might be able to delete it from THAT window and then use the Get button in the Podcasts list to restart the download.

Hope this helps! Sorry I couldn’t provide more definite info. Let us know how you do.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:56:05 +0000

Hi Maria,

I recently converted to using iTunes to manage my music library, and still getting used to the itunes “way”. Your posting is a great help.

Maybe you have some ideas for one problem I am having?

I find that for certain podcasts I get interrupted downloads quite often. itunes just seems to accept this and catalogue the partial download. Problem is, I can find no way to tell itunes to either resume or re-download the podcast!

Trying to fix this I ran into another problem: I tried deleting one of the podcast episodes (hoping itunes would doanload it again). But now itunes seems to have permanently forgotten about that episode completely … updating the feed does not bring it back.

Any hints, or is it the case that itunes podcast support is just so basic that I shouldn’t expect it to be able to handle this kind of situation?

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:38:59 +0000

I have to keep stopping the downloads in the list when I want a single file to get priority. Perhaps it is because I have the iTunes preferences in Podcasts set to

“Check to new episodes: every hour” and to

“Download All” when there are new episodes.

The download queue seems to get reset after an hour or so, and am guessing the preferences might be why mine behaves differently.

Unfortunately, I am currently stuck with dialup and every time the ISP terminates all previous parts of the interrupted downloading files are lost. It is nice that iTunes will automatically restart the downloads when it is launched, but it is a restart from the beginning — iTunes cannot resume the download from the point it was stopped. Quite the nuisance.

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:00:45 +0000

I don’t know of any way other than manually stopping all downloads and then starting them up one by one. Maybe another reader has a solution?

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:35:05 +0000

Is there a way of stopping itunes from downloading 3 files at a time? I find that my net access really slows down when itunes has a queue lined up.

I would prefer if itunes only downloaded one file at a time, therefore giving other applications more bandwidth.

I’m currently running the windows version of itunes v7.

Thanks