Can anyone help me solve this problem: Podcasts on my iPod disappear. I download them, listen to them, and then they later disappear off my iPod. It's not a situation in which I delete them from my iTunes library and then my iPod syncs (matches) whatever is in the library and therefore deletes it. The entire podcasts is gone from my iPod and iTunes (though sometimes, just from my iPod). Very odd. The only thing I can figure is, the podcasts are programmed to delete themselves after one listening or a certain amount of time, in order to prevent people from accumulating them.