It seems that Podcasts is a feature that’s never going to get any polish. I’ve put up with the slowness of loading for a while, the playbacks that just suddenly end on Android with having to restart the app, whatever.
But now my library is broken and it’s been broken for a while now and it never seems to get fixed, so now I guess I have to post a bug because it’s just me or something. Here’s screenshots:
As you can see in PMP, both Office Ladies and Extra Napkins have negative unplayed counts! When new shows arrive, the counts stay negative, but move closer to zero at least, so I just have to remember that they’re forever stuck at -13 & -12 respectively when everything has been played.
Also, Weird Medicine continues to show up in my PMP after removal. When I click on it’s icon, I get the following in Screenshot 2. I’ve right clicked and reloaded PMP, no change.
Now, at the same time on Android, I get similar, but slightly different behavior. On Android, Office Ladies & Extra Napkins NEVER show the unplayed counts, as in Screenshot 3. You have to click into each one to see the orange play buttons on unplayed episodes.
Fortunately, at least on Android, Weird Medicine no longer shows up correctly as in Screenshot 4.
But I still am completely unable to add the show’s new RSS Feed (the URL changed to Weird Medicine with Doctor Steve). When I try to add the feed using the Add a podcast overflow menu item, all that happens is it loads up the old feed (See screenshot 5), that stopped at episode 414.
For reference, if you load the feed currently in a regular web browser, as in Screenshot 6, you’ll note that they’re on episode 421. I’ve now missed 7 weeks of episodes for this show.
Would love to know how to fix this.
