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So that's what's happening
Authored by: dumas on Feb 14, '07 11:46:49AM

Good grief - is that why iTunes keeps stopping downloading my podcasts? I don't listen to them very often and then I catch up in a big batch on a road trip or something - I figured iTunes was just broken when it wasn't downloading my podcasts anymore.

Is this documented somewhere?



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So that's what's happening
Authored by: robleach on Feb 14, '07 03:39:34PM

I assumed the same thing! I listen every day on my iPod, but I go awhile between downloads and I never understood why I always had to manually select "update podcast". This "feature" shouldn't be in effect when you only keep the latest X number of episodes! My hard drive's in no danger of overflowing. I can't believe there's no way to change this behavior from the interface!

I have no desire to increment the playcount: that way I'd never be able to find where I left off. And is there a way to keep iTunes from removing a "played" podcast from my iPod when there's less than (or equal to) the limit I set (e.g. 3 episodes). Sometimes, I'm not done listening or I want to show a 'cast to my girlfriend, but it was removed the last time I synced!



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So that's what's happening
Authored by: Wodgy on Feb 14, '07 06:26:53PM
It's documented here:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html

Automatic Unsubscribe

iTunes automatically unsubscribes from a podcast if the following conditions are both met:

1. The user has not played any episode downloaded in the past 5 updates (there may be more than one episode downloaded per update.
2. More than 5 days have elapsed since an episode was played.

I suspect this feature is not meant to "save users from themselves" -- it's to defend podcast providers from excessive bandwidth usage. It's a tradeoff that makes podcasting affordable for more people.

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