Why is podcasts greyed out

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For me it's not just podcasts but also audiobooks from audible. I subscribe to about twenty podcasts, and all of the episodes after 29 October are greyed out on my iPhone. They play just fine on my PC. I've been buying audibooks from audible. The seven I bought before October are fine, but the three I bought last week are greyed out and I can't play them - that's 60USD worth of audiobooks I can't listen to on my phone! Again, they play fine on my PC. I appear to have iTunes Wi-Fi Sync turned on on my phone It's showing the last Wi-Fi sync as having been on 31 October, which is awfully close to the 29 October date I started having problems.

Dec 12, PM. Dec 12, PM in response to carolynfromauckland In response to carolynfromauckland. Audible posted some info about the issue with their audiobooks, at least with regard to using their iOS app which I do versus using audiobooks via iTunes. Apparently iOS 5. The 'solution' is to delete the audiobooks from the device and re-download them. This worked fine for me, but had the unfortunate side-effect of losing my current place in each book. I have had a similar recurring issue with the MotionX GPS app as well, where I have had to re-download the voice guidance packages 2 or 3 times now.

I suspect it is a similar issue as with podcasts and audiobooks. Something is causing data to be deleted or corrupted on the devices and it is quite irritating! Dec 12, PM in response to campbellcj In response to campbellcj.

I've just spent a frustrating two hours with iTunes, but in the end I have my audiobooks and podcasts working again and I haven't lost my place in any books Watch open-mouthed as all audiobooks and podcasts merrily sync properly.

Since vidarnordnes above had success by deleting the photo cache, maybe it's got something to do with the number of photos being synched? Is anyone else willing to try unchecking most of their photos? Dec 15, AM in response to carolynfromauckland In response to carolynfromauckland.

In my case I tried unchecking podcasts, syncing to erase them, rechecking podcasts and syncing, and then different podcasts were greyed. Therefore, I suspect greyed out means it was corrupted during transfer.

A radio-geek friend of mine claims it's all caused by sunspot activity and the reboot fixes the corrupted program that was causing the problem. I guess sunspot activity varies with your location on the planet.. Dec 15, AM. Dec 15, AM in response to vidarnordnes In response to vidarnordnes.

This may be a different issue to the grey podcasts - my podcasts are syncing properly now - but the Audible audiobook corruption is an ongoing problem too. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why is my subscribed podcast got greyed out podcasts that are never synched? Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 6 months ago. Active 10 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 6k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Other regularly publishing products, like newsletters, are of course susceptible to the same effect.

Cutting back on releases, taking a break, delegating work — these are all good techniques for managing burnout. And this is where that intimacy between the host and the listener, or the illusion of it, breaks down. Perhaps the podcast creator has been keeping quiet about what has been going on behind the scenes, putting a brave face on their difficulties. As far as the listener is concerned, shows go on forever, until that happy thought is contradicted by the announcement that the end is nigh.

In the end, the fundamentally one-sided nature of the relationship is exposed, and it can be very disruptive. With audio, no such trickery is needed — merely the fact that you carry a voice around in your headphones and it feels as if they talking only to you is enough to form the connection. It can feel like there are only two options: Either you ghost your fanbase and field bemused messages for years, or you lay it all out and field disappointed messages for years.

A graceful exit is typically out of reach. We opted to give our listeners some warning, rather than just letting the podcast fade out with the end unacknowledged, and told them at the top of the penultimate episode that there would only be one more. Then we gathered as many friends of the pod as we could to make a final holiday special and let that be the last thing on the feed.

The majority of listeners who got in touch were delightful, expressing only regret because they had liked the show. I had thought by giving the show its eschatological rites it might feel as if a line had been drawn beneath it, but no. This is the part of ending a podcast that is the hardest to acknowledge, I think. When I spoke to Hillary Frank in about her decision to end The Longest Shortest Time after nearly a decade, she articulated a version of this really well.

Recently, the hosts of Answer Me This , a beloved British comedy podcast, announced that their th episode — which comes out this week — will be their last. Helen Zaltzman, one of those hosts, rationalised the choice perfectly.