Comments on: iTunes Podcast Problem Solved

By: iTunes não apaga os podcast assistidos | bernabauer.com

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By: iTunes: I told you, I’m done listening to that! « flamingtoasters

iTunes: I told you, I’m done listening to that! « flamingtoasters — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:02:11 +0000

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By: arensb

arensb — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:40:27 +0000

Chainguns:
Check both the Podcasts tab in the settings, and the iPod options. I bet you’ve got it set to do something sensible on the iPod, and something less sensible (like keep everything) in iTunes itself.

By: Chainguns

Chainguns — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:36:58 +0000

I'm having the same issue with old podcasts being kept around forever. What I discovered after digging around for a bit was that the play count on the podcast is/was not being updated. I only listen to podcasts I download via iTunes on my iPod Nano. {5G}. It sync's the podcasts to my nano without issue {removing any podcasts from my ipod that I have dutifully played.) however it's not recording or updating that played information in the podcast itself in the iTunes library. If I play the podcast with iTunes, {skipping to the end to let it run through} it will delete that podcast the next time I refresh.

Its a bit of a bummer, and I wish I had an answer for fixing it.

By: arensb

arensb — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:30:09 +0000

francesco: If, like me, you have the preferences set to "Keep: last 5 episodes", then you should have the 5 most recent episodes in iTunes, whether they've been played or not.

If you want to keep only unplayed episodes, you should set it to "Keep: all unplayed episodes" or some such. However, I don't like this because iTunes considers that any podcast that you've started is "played". So if you start listening to an episode, get interrupted, and refresh your podcasts before you finish listening, that episode will be lost.

By: francesco

francesco — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:11:41 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the tip–but have you noticed that the function doesn’t work with all podcasts? I’m running iTunes 7, and yesterday, per your instructions, selected all my podcasts and then selected “Allow Auto Delete”. Upon refreshing my subscriptions, iTunes did delete most, but not all, of the podcasts that had been either marked as played or actually played. Is this some more iTunes weirdness or am I missing something?