Hello, Scott's correct that there is something odd about the Blind Cool Tech podcast page at the iTunes Store, but I suspect that the source of the problem is with the feed they're mirroring. Some months ago, the BCT podcast page at the iTunes Store stopped showing the most recent episodes, and only listed the oldest episodes on the feeds under the songs table. If you were subscribing, you would continue to get the new episodes. However, I stopped using the automatic subscription update, and was using the ability to refresh the feeds to download selected episodes (like Mike Arrigo's podcasts). Since I didn't have "Subscribe" turned on, for me, the automatic podcast updates stopped in June (after Mike's Mac Demo 8 podcast and Dane's Amadeus Pro batch processing podcast). Turning on the "Subscribe" option and refreshing the feed with "Update Podcast" or using the "Refresh" button for all podcasts on iTunes (buttons beyond the songs table) didn't work.
I ended up having to use the Advanced menu option on the iTunes menu bar for "Subscribe to podcast" and type in the RSS feed address: http://www.blindcooltech.com/bct.xml This started up my subscription again, but in a new folder with the same name, because it's coming from a different feed address. I haven't tried to turn this off, so I just delete episodes I don't want to keep. My guess is that if I started up a completely new iTunes account and subscribed by pressing the "Subscribe" button from the BCT podcast page in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=78111172 that the subscription would start correctly, and that if I added podcasts from that subscription to my current iTunes library they would even show up in the original BCT folder (that worked for me through mid-June). Now, when you look at the songs table for the BCT podcast page, you only get listings for the 101 episodes between June and September 2005 -- before you used to see the latest episodes. Whenever this sort of problem showed up before for a podcast subscription, it was usually a problem with the way the original feed was maintained. For example, I used to subscribe to audiobook podcasts and the Highbridge Audiobooks feed got very flakey in 2007 (after iTunes became accessible). They finally stopped issuing them (but if you look at their web site, there's still an entry for podcast subscriptions at iTunes that points to a feed whose last episodes are in late summer 2007). Scott, you can select the podcast series in your library and use the "Report a Concern" button, and type in your comments. It could be that the number of BCT episodes on the feed exceeds some maximum, or the default ordering for recent episodes got reversed. If you subscribe again using the Advanced menu your subscriptions should start up again, but the problem of the BCT feed at the iTunes Store remains. I don't know which feed address they pass onto iTunes. Cheers, Esther Dane Trethowan wrote: > That's very odd! I'm getting everything as its updated here. > > > Scott Howell wrote: > >> >> Folks, if any of you subscribe to the BLind Cool Tech podcast via >> iTunes, I have a question. It seems that iTunes has no longer any >> interest in BCT and has decided to stop all podcast beyond 2005. >> I've >> tried unsubscribing at one point, resubscribing, and even use the >> context menu and update to try and refresh the list. So far none of >> these steps has resolved the issue and obviously I'm missing out on >> some of the podcasts. >> Has anyone any thoughts? >> Oh, this has been going on a while and yes before Snow Leopard. I've >> just run out of ideas so thought to pick some fresh brains out >> there. :) >> >> tnx, >> >> >> >> > > > > > ****************************** > > Dane Trethowan > From Melton Victoria Australia > mailto:"grtd...@internode.on.net > Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane > blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com > Phone United Kingdom > 02032874641 > Phone Australia > 0390058589 > Phone United States > 8159261869 > Fax: > +61 3 9743 7954x > MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net > skype:grtdane12 > > ****************************** > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
