iPod Wont Play Podcasts? Shuffle Blinks Green Yellow Green Yellow Etc

Posted October 13th, 2008, in: Computer Problems and Fixes

After a few weeks of thinking there was something wrong with my little iPod Shuffle, I found out that in shuffle-mode, the iPod Shuffle can’t/wont play back certain kinds of audio files.

Just change it back to non-shuffle and the Podcasts will play fine!

From support.apple.com:

When iPod shuffle is set to shuffle songs it will play all the audio files on iPod shuffle that are not audiobooks. Podcasts of type .m4b or AAC will not play on iPod shuffle when it is in shuffle mode, which is the intended behavior, although a podcast of type .mp3 or .wav may play while in shuffle mode. To play an audiobook or podcast that is on iPod shuffle, set the switch on iPod shuffle to play in order.

Wow. All this heartache over one tiny little switch switched to the wrong position.

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3 Responses to “iPod Wont Play Podcasts? Shuffle Blinks Green Yellow Green Yellow Etc”

Matt wrote on October 13th, 2008 3:55 am :

Nothing gets me more fired up to run faster than listening to Richard Dawkins discuss the “Darwinian imperative”

Emmah wrote on March 12th, 2009 12:07 pm :

OMG thank you so much for posting this. i thought mine was broken too !!!!!

nats wrote on April 6th, 2009 9:11 pm :

thanks for the post, however my audiobooks wont play when not on shuffle! Have played 1 audiobook once, now it doesnt play at all? flashed green and yellow???