[X4U] iTunes 11.1 Incredibly BAD "feature"

[Paul Moortgat]

I had 477 and I still have 477 of them.  This is how I've done it on my Mac.
Long ago I collected all my songs (8500+ now) and placed them in a folder I made for my music.  Not anymore in the iTunes folder.
In the iTunes folder I had them in different folders.  Now just one folder.
When I get a Podcast file it goes there as well.  But just after I received them I watch them roughly in iTunes.
Just to make them mark "seen them".  Then later on I moved them from that music folder to a new one.  A folder for each different item.
They're still listed in iTunes, but I can no longer play them because they're moved from that music folder to their new folder.
I do this to keep my music folder containing only music and nothing else.
The Podcasts are in list format.  I only have to click the down arrow to see them all.
For me there's no difference in iTunes between version 11.0.5 and 11.1.

Paul Moortgat


On 21 Sep 2013, at 16:27, Crandon David wrote:

> Actually, if you go to "my Podcasts" you'll be oK. If you stay in the old "lists" , then it lists them all.
> 
> 
> On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:09 PM, Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
> 
>> I can delete them.  I've 10.6.8.  Maybe you've 10.8.x
>> 
>> Paul Moortgat
>> 
>> 
>> On 20 Sep 2013, at 23:19, Clifford Readout wrote:
>> 
>>> Please forgive me for this cross-post.  I sent it <iomug at yahoogroups.com>,
>>> too.  Word of this needs to get out.  If enough people complain, Apple might
>>> fix it.
>>> 
>>> If you subscribe to many Podcasts I recommend you do NOT install the iTunes
>>> 11.1 update.  You will be sorry!
>>> The iTunes engineers (and I have received communication from them) have
>>> acknowledged this situation, and called it a 'feature"!  You decide:
>>> 
>>> When the update is completed, iTunes will now show EVERY ***available***
>>> episode of EVERY Podcast to which you are subscribed.  It does not matter if
>>> you had downloaded them, listened/watched them and deleted them. This totals
>>> more than 1300 items in the Podcasts to which I am subscribed.  (Yes, more
>>> than one thousand three hundred!)
>>> 
>>> BUT, even worse, you cannot delete any of them without (supposedly)
>>> downloading them again and listening/watching them all again.  Then,
>>> supposedly, you will be allowed to delete the files.  My experience
>>> indicates that it will not work every time.  I have downloaded many,
>>> listened to them, and not been able to get them deleted.  It has worked for
>>> fewer than one item in five.
>>> 
>>> Imagine getting to scroll through a list of five hundred lines of Podcast
>>> items that you do not want to get to the one you wanted to keep.
>>> 
>>> Oh, hear this, too:  If you unsubscribe from a Podcast, all those items do
>>> disappear...until you resubscribe.  Then, there they are, back again,
>>> impossible to delete without unsubscribing.
>>> 
>>> Another "feature" that makes life miserable for iTunes users.
>>> 
>>> Who can recommend an alternative. Is it possible to go back to the earlier
>>> version of iTunes?  My iTunes library is now more than 950 GB (Yes, GB, not
>>> MB), and most of the files are important.  I would need to import them into
>>> the replacement.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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