If you click the subscribe button to set up a podcast in iTunes U, you do not get the title of the podcast but rather what one other iTunes U administrator called "Ugly URLs." I noticed this on Wed and checked the iTunes U Site Admins discussion forum to see if anyone else had reported it. There was an entry on Tuesday the 19th that included
For example, one of our podcast series should be showing up as T4: Tuesday Tips on Teaching with Technology. Instead, when you subscribe, what you get is http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/nau.edu.1622217296.0162...When there was nothing added to it by Thursday I appended my on "me too!" Today, someone at Apple wrote:
Thanks for reporting this. This does indeed appear to be an issue. If you go into "Edit Track Preferences" and set the default location for track downloads to "Individual playlist per course" you will be able to work around the issue. We've noted the issue and will get to work on a fix.
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