http://kwsanders.com/2005/06/30/itunes-49-ipod-updater-and-podcasts/ My blog about all things family, photography, geocaching, and programming. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:59:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://kwsanders.com/2005/06/30/itunes-49-ipod-updater-and-podcasts/#comment-20 Anonymous Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:18:38 +0000 http://kwsanders.com/2005/06/30/itunes-49-ipod-updater-and-podcasts/#comment-20 I haven't yet installed the iPod updater yet (I have a 60G iPod Photo). I found that I could listen to my subscribed podcasts on my iPod by drilling into the "Podcast" genre from the Music menu. But what I ~really~ wanted was to have an option to listen to all podcasts which I haven't yet played. So, I created a smart playlist in iTunes, which filtered on "Genre contains Podcast" _and_ "Play count is 0". Nothing shows up in this playlist in iTunes; but in the iPod, I now have the option to play all podcasts for which I haven't yet listened through to the end. Perfect. Since pretty much all of my iPod usage is via smart playlists, adding this playlist dovetailed nicely. YMMV for different usage patterns. I haven't yet installed the iPod updater yet (I have a 60G iPod Photo).
I found that I could listen to my subscribed podcasts on my iPod by drilling into the “Podcast” genre from the Music menu. But what I ~really~ wanted was to have an option to listen to all podcasts which I haven't yet played.
So, I created a smart playlist in iTunes, which filtered on “Genre contains Podcast” _and_ “Play count is 0″. Nothing shows up in this playlist in iTunes; but in the iPod, I now have the option to play all podcasts for which I haven't yet listened through to the end. Perfect.
Since pretty much all of my iPod usage is via smart playlists, adding this playlist dovetailed nicely. YMMV for different usage patterns.

]]> http://kwsanders.com/2005/06/30/itunes-49-ipod-updater-and-podcasts/#comment-19 Anonymous Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:45:22 +0000 http://kwsanders.com/2005/06/30/itunes-49-ipod-updater-and-podcasts/#comment-19 You and I must have different version ipods. My problem is the exact opposite of yours. I WANT my podcasts to be sorted into their own playlists for each feed, but all I get when go to Music->Podcasts is a list of every single mp3 I've downloaded. It makes it impossible to use. IpodderX is still king. You and I must have different version ipods. My problem is the exact opposite of yours. I WANT my podcasts to be sorted into their own playlists for each feed, but all I get when go to Music->Podcasts is a list of every single mp3 I've downloaded. It makes it impossible to use. IpodderX is still king.

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