The podcast app is displaying the incorrect subscribed podcast

I am using the official Apple iOS podcast app.

A strange thing started happening 2 months back.

I have 5 podcasts that I subscribe to, one of them being the Joe Rogan Experience. One day the Joe Rogan podcast wasn't there anymore and a Christian podcast had taken its place probably a sign.

I unsubscribed from the Christian one, searched iTunes for the Joe Rogan podcast, and resubscribed. For a full day the app displayed the correct podcast but then magically changed back to the Christian one.

Now when I try unsubscribe and resubscribe, to the Joe Rogan podcast, it magically subscribes to / displays the "Intelligence Squared US debates" podcast. I don't live in the US so this is probably not a sign

I am using an iPhone (9.3.1) and podcast app (2.4)

If I download a different podcast player app (Overcast) and subscribe to the Joe Rogan experience it doesn't change to the random podcast. But the problem still remains in the apple podcast app.

I did a search and didn't find anyone else experiencing the same problem. Any ideas on what the problem could be or a possible solution?

Solution 1:

Note that all the podcasts getting mixed up are hosted on Libsyn. There appears to be an issue with certain international CDN's caching rss feeds incorrectly, or so say Libsyn. They have got to fix this issue once and for all. It's still happening to us in 2018.