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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: ajweiss on Nov 21, '05 06:32:24PM

What I would really like is a way to change the "Keep Unplayed Episodes" behavior.

iTunes marks a podcast as played when any portion of it is played. I want it to mark podcasts the same way it marks songs, once they are played in full. This option would mean that I could automatically manage all of my podcasts instead of having to go through and uncheck the ones I have listened to.

I don't want a podcast to disappear from my iPod during a sync before I'm done listening to it!



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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: DocMan on Nov 22, '05 04:14:12AM

I did this by createing an "Unplayed Podcasts" Smart Playlist. Really simple. Podcast is true AND Playcount is less than 1. If the podcast is on the playlist, it will be copied to the iPod, but won't be available from the podcast menu, just the playlist.

Doc



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Cast Away - Gain control over iTunes' podcast aging
Authored by: ajweiss on Nov 22, '05 09:01:42AM

"it will be copied to the iPod, but won't be available from the podcast menu, just the playlist."

That is the problem. The iPod treats podcasts differently in playlists than in the "Podcasts" section.

I have used smart playlists to make this almost automatic (I have a "Played Podcasts" playlist that is "only checked songs" with playcount >0; I uncheck whatever is in there periodically), but I want full automation as it should work (I can't see the current setup as useful to very many people).



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