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So that's what's happening
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.
So that's what's happening
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!
So that's what's happening
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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