I’m not giving up on it for a few reasons, but with patiences it is almost back to normal for me. which sounds bad because it has taken months for the end user to be able to use the app like they did before the rewrite…
right now im just waiting on priority playlists sorting to work right. other than that everything is stable. specifically, I have a playlist that puts hourly news at the top of the playlists (and with the option to play the top episode next I should hear the hourly update when it is there and the current show finishes). I then have one specific podcast (hour hour long episodes each night) that is low priority so that it is the very last thing in the playlists to play at the bottom. in the middle is everything else sorted from oldest to newest. sounds good right
that is, until episodes download, the thing goes haywire, and it doesn’t recognizing my priorities and sorting. then I haver to edit the playlists, sort from oldest to newest (again) and it fixes itself until the next time I look at it.
I tired going back to Apple Podcasts but gave up on it again. I don’t know what is going on, maybe someone here can help, but it does not stay in sync. obviously listening to this show and reading here I know the usual steps. all devices up to date, syncing turned on etc etc
everything will be fine for a few minutes and then ill suddenly have dozens of unplayed episodes. then hundreds. I have tried marking all episodes as played (which takes FOREVER since there is no mark all for the whole library, just individual shows). I have tried unsubscribing entirely to every podcast then resubscribing. I used PEARCLEANER to uninstall all associated system podcast app files (containers?) and near instantly all devices will sync to an empty library, I start to rebuild, and by the end of the day it’s all gone to pot. the last time I gave up a few weeks ago I ended up with I think 40,000 unplayed episodes.
im no coder or IT but I can’t figure out how for years, with several devices, signed in and signed out, every troubleshooting known to man, and podcasts won’t sync. mail syncs. files sync. calendar syncs. reminders sync. contacts sync. messages sync. safari reading lists usually syncs. music library syncs… but apple podcasts randomly leaves me with hundreds and sometimes thousands of unplayed episodes that were marked as played the day before. then I give up for a year or two before trying again only to find the same problems.
it might be coincidence, but about year ago I guess, I email Tim Cook (sounds far reaching I know but he has replied to three of my emails over the years of things I have sent him or asked) and copied Cue and Craig hoping someone would get it FWD to them. I wondered if one of them sent it to some engineer thinking there must be something wrong with my account that is causing such chaos that I can’t see from my end. And what do you know, everything worked like it should for a while. and then suddenly one day it all collapsed again, I gave up again, and am still with Overcast.