Use smart playlists for better podcast grouping on iPods

Jul 08, '05 08:53:00AM

Contributed by: amjbrown

Podcasts don't appear in the iTunes library in the normal way. In iTunes, this is not a problem -- the design of the Podcast section is very elegant and easy to navigate. However, when you have gotten overly excited about the new Podcast feature in iTunes and subscribed to a crazy number of the things, your Podcast playlist on the iPod becomes a bit unwieldly.

The good news is that you can create Smart Playlists for Podcasts. Selecting a genre of Podcast with Album containing Today and Artist containing BBC Radio 4, for instance, will give you a nice selection of interviews on your iPod. The playlist will be blank in iTunes, but work as planned on the iPod.

Podcasts behave just like normal tracks in the Podcast window. Control-click and choose Get Info from the pop-up; this will reveal all the data you need to build a Smart Playlist.

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