iTunes 5.0 Upgrade and Podcasts
It seems like each time I upgrade my iPod firmware or the iTunes application, there is some terrible consequence. The last firmware upgrade scrambled my play count and ratings on the songs in my library. I had to start over with no play counts and no ratings, which screwed up a number of playlists.
This time after upgrading from iTunes 4.9 to iTunes 5.0 I found my podcasts directory was empty. The forum at Apple has a useful customer suggestion involving dragging around playlist. Now I admit the problem was not too severe and the features and look of the new iTunes is excellent, BUT how about getting that QA department in gear, Apple? I work in software development so I realize development misses problems and QA misses problems and usually some number reach the customer. The podcasting feature is the newest hot feature of iTunes, so I would have expected it to recieve a little more QA attention than it apparently did.
Better luck next time.
PS. The iPod Nano is h-o-t hot!
posted by Christian Ratliff @ 7:26 AM
3 Comments:
I feel your pain. I just upgraded to 5.0 and about one third of the songs in my library have screwed up play counts. The numbers are several digits long and negative something like -187493. Very odd.
I just updated to 5.0.1 this morning and it, once again, lost all of my podcast entries. I hope this is not the start of a pattern.
If your play counts are messed up, view your entire library, then sort by play count. Select all the songs with messed up play counts, right click (control-click) them and select "reset play count".
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