{"id":2858,"date":"2014-01-23T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2014-01-23T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:43:05","slug":"itunes-ate-my-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/23\/itunes-ate-my-podcasts","title":{"rendered":"iTunes ate my podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes is fixed now (11.1.3) but somewhere <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/09\/25\/some-apple-upgrades-that-im-not-enjoying\">in-between<\/a> it broke and <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/message\/23131176#23131176\">deleted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3019578\/fast-feed\/warning-itunes-111-update-can-delete-library-if-you-subscribe-to-podcasts\">all<\/a> of my podcast downloads as well as the subscriptions. It has been over four months that I&#8217;ve gone without listening to podcasts and I can&#8217;t say that I miss it hugely. Audiobooks (on phone, in gym particularly), Spotify and Rdio have taken its place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This means a lot to me &#8211; I always thought that podcasting could be big business. Maybe its just niche business?<\/p>\n<p>Apple engineering needs to QA this stuff. It&#8217;s not hard. There should be test harnesses. Heck, just testing the damn upgrade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the up arrow key seems dodgy again on my Macbook Air. It is still only 11 months old and this is the second time its happening. I will have to find time to walk into an Apple Store to get an immediate replacement (something we can&#8217;t do in Malaysia\/Singapore obviously).<\/p>\n<p>Overall feeling on the Apple experience in these terms: relatively negative. Am I going to give up their stuff? No. There&#8217;s a more positive post on Apple coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes is fixed now (11.1.3) but somewhere in-between it broke and deleted all of my podcast downloads as well as the subscriptions. It has been over four months that I&#8217;ve gone without listening to podcasts and I can&#8217;t say that I miss it hugely. Audiobooks (on phone, in gym particularly), Spotify and Rdio have taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1503],"tags":[147,314,5],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-itunes","tag-macosx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-K6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}