Organize podcasts automatically via AppleScript

Mar 03, '05 07:34:00AM

Contributed by: adamjohnson

When using iPodder to download podcasts to iTunes, iPodder will put the podcasts into their own playlists. If you're downloading a lot of podcasts, this will make you source list very messy. By running this AppleScript after each download (which iPodder can do automatically), all the podcasts will be put into the "Podcasts" playlist instead, and their genre will all be changed to Podcast, keeping everything neat and tidy.

In iPodder's preferences, use this line to run this script after each download:

osascript -l 'AppleScript' path/to/script.scpt
The listofpl variable at the start of the script needs to be set to the name of the playlists that are created for the podcasts you download. The first time you download a certain podcast, you won't know which playlist it will create, so you can add it to the list afterwards, and run the script an extra time.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this script...]

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