So, I installed iTunes 5.0 this morning. Although I had seen the new interface on a nearby Mac, I didn't like it much. That said, I wanted to update anyway.

So, I did. And dammit, I shouldn't have! My podcast directory, of which I had subscribed to at least 40 different ones and had a number of others in it that were not subscriptions are all gone. Completely gone. Vanished. The audio files are still there, but now they're all mixed up in my library!

What the hell?!

I'm actually quite angry about this. I had been building up my selection of podcasts ever since 4.9 came out and I was fairly happy with the ones I had. Now I have to start all over!

I have to wonder if this has anything to do with the "subscribe to get rankings" bug that may have gotten some podcasts subscribed to that wouldn't have otherwise been found or popular? That would just be nasty, though.

*sigh*

Now to start all over again....

I've also discovered, in the process, that when I click on the album name of a podcast the search feature normally doesn't find it. So I'll type it into the search thing above the failed search, and it still won't find it but that gives me the opportunity to choose to search in "Podcasts" instead of "Music" or "Audiobooks" -- or "All", which I would have assumed would have included podcasts. This is making it rather time consuming to rebuild what the iTunes updater destroyed.

Thanks, Apple, for wasting my time (and more seriously, for having a soaring stock value -- but this sort of thing won't help it stay up!).

Posted by Shane on September 9, 2005 10:15 AM | Permalink