tv: Podcast Favorites slow to load?

[ipedro]

I have both the first generation and new tv's and one annoying quirk is that the Favourites Podcasts list in tv2 take a long time to load.

On the first gen, you hit Favourites and it just opens. If the list is long, the cover art for each will populate but you can move around the highlight and scroll. In tv2 you hit Favourites and it displays "Loading Favorites" and this can go on for 10 to 30 seconds -- even though I only have 4 favourites right now.

Is this an iOS glitch or am I the only one experiencing it?

For reference, I have a 25mbps connection and no other menu loads this slowly. The iTunes movie and tv stores pop up immediately when I click their menu.

 

[halon314]

Favorites slow to load

I have the same problem. It seems like the more I change my favorites (I periodically add or remove titles) it gets worse. VERY frustrating. I've started just searching for podcasts by name instead of using favorites because it's taking so long. Hopefully an update will fix this.

 

[powerman]

I have not been able to open my favorites since i upgraded to itunes 10.2. Anyone else having this problem. It used to be slow loading as stated above but now it will not load at all. Maybe it will be fixed with ios 4.3.

 

[ipedro]

Ok, this is officially a bug then. I'm submitting a bug report. You can too here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html

EDIT: I submitted the following report:

The new AppleTV has an issue with loading Podcast Favorites.

While the rest of the OS seems to run quickly, including access to the iTunes store, when selecting INTERNET > PODCASTS > FAVORITES, the message "Accessing iTunes Store" stays on screen for minutes sometimes. On other occasions it never opens at all.

Because this only happens on the new AppleTV (I also have the original generation), my suspicion is that this is related to the "new podcast badge". I have the same podcasts in my Favorites list on the original AppleTV and this list opens immediately.

The same favorites on the new AppleTV presents the problem I'm reporting perhaps because the list of new podcasts have to be loaded from each content provider and shown in the red badge before the menu is opened. If there is a delay with the content provider, the whole menu is held up.

Maybe you could load this information after the page is made available?