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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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