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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: rexroof on Nov 21, '05 11:01:47AM

What I would really like is a way to remove the iTunes feature that stops downloading a podcast when it decides I'm not listening to it. For some reason the podcasts that I'm subscribed to are constantly set to this state, even though I tend to listen to most of them fairly frequently, I thought.



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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: loren_ryter on Nov 21, '05 03:13:01PM
I'm the developer of Cast Away. (Thanks Rob for posting this.) I fully agree with the last comment, and tried to find away around it. Hence, the option "Play one episode per podcast silently and briefly." The idea was to force iTunes to think that you had listened to it. However, it doesn't work as designed. In the upcoming revision, I'm going to try playing the last 2 seconds of the podcast episode instead, and that might work. By the way, the URL for Wooden Brain Concepts should be: http://beam.to/woodenbrain

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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: DocMan on Nov 22, '05 04:18:31AM

So, does Cast Away have an override that lets you keep all podcasts that haven't been played?

While I want to get rid of old podcasts, I don't want to drop the ones I haven't listened to yet. And I have at least one podcast that my wife and I are listening to independantly. That one I don't want to delete at all until it has been played twice. Do you have logic to support these kinds of situations?

Doc



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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: macslut on Nov 21, '05 03:24:02PM

I'm glad I'm not the only one with that problem. It's annoying as heck. I routinely select all and then mark them all as played. Apple should change this behavior.

I rarely listen to podcasts on iTunes, but instead transfer them either to my Nano at home or my ROKR at work (I know, I've got fanboitus really bad). It would be great to disable this "feature".

Along the same lines, does anybody know if there's a hack that allows a single playlist to be synched when the iPod is mounted? iTunes wants to either auto-synch as specified or go to manual mode. There are some playlists that I want auto-synched, but most I want to manual manage. Any ideas?



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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: loren_ryter on Nov 21, '05 05:18:49PM

the revision i made is working and i will release an update soon (to mark podcasts played so iTunes won't stop updating them.)

as for synching particular playlists, that is already built into iTunes. Just plug in the iPod, select the options button, and specify only selected playlists.



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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: macslut on Nov 21, '05 05:48:06PM

"as for synching particular playlists, that is already built into iTunes."

Right, but the problem is that iTunes wants to either auto-synch or let you manually manage. I want to do both. Specifically, I have Audio Hijack Pro record scheduled TV shows audio as AAC and put them into an iTunes playlist. I want only that one playlist to be synched and one other playlist that has my PhoneValet voicemail since those will be updated daily.

The problem is that if I turn on synching, I can select only those two playlists to be synched, but then I can't manually manage other playlists on the iPod unless I turn synching back off.

This is another one of those, "why is this" kinda things. I would think a lot of people would want to synch one or two playlists only, and then manually manage the rest.



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