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Update podcasts and limit total size before syncing
Authored by: davearonson on Jan 24, '08 10:01:52AM
You don't need to use scripting on this, if you don't mind having your iThing treat your podcasts as music. Just have a smart playlist that includes your unheard podcasts, and synch that as music. (At least, that's what I did on my Nano; haven't tried it on my Shuffle or anything else.) You can even use several SPs to slice and dice it any way you like.

For instance, my wife and I share a PC for our iTunes library. (This is why I know my trick works fine w/o Apple scripting! PC vs. Mac flames > /dev/null plskthx.) I like some pods, she likes others. I have several SPs:

  1. "Dave's Pods" includes only mine ("any rule" of the pods I like). Don't sync this one, it gets huge! If you don't have any pods hanging around that you don't like, you can skip this one, and use "podcast is true".

  2. "Dave's Pods (Unheard)" includes only mine that I haven't listened to ("all rules" of "list is Dave's Pods" and "play count is 0"). I don't bother syncing this one, because I am catching up on a huge backlog. If you aren't, then you can just use this.

  3. "Dave's Pods (New)" is the important one to me, and usually very small. It includes only the ones I haven't heard yet, that are from this year. ("All rules" of "list is "Dave's Pods (Unheard)" and "year > 2007". Yes, I have to manually update that every year. I'd love to simply use "release date is under a month ago". This is where scripting could be useful!)

  4. "Dave's Pods (Old)" includes all the rest ("all rules" of "list is "Dave's Pods (Unheard)" and "year < 2008"), sorted by release date. If you're catching up on some huge backlogs, this could need limiting. As mentioned in the original hint, you can use the SP features to do that.

  5. I considered making a few more that slice them by past years, and/or size, but considered that overkill. If you want to, more power to ya. Geek on, bro!
-Dave (Mac user, but the wife ripped a lot of CDs on her PC)

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