How Can I Create a Smart Podcast Playlist?
Here is what I'd like to do: Create a Smart Playlist in iTunes that will roll up all of my unplayed podcast downloads into a single playlist I can work my way through while running, biking, or driving.
Since my iPod doesn't offer a continuous play option for podcast tracks, I'm trying to figure out a way to trick it into behaving in a rational manner.
Here is what logically should work. Create a smart playlist selecting podcasts with a play count of zero:
However, it doesn't. I end up getting all podcasts - unplayed and played.
Ben suggested I make sure to check the "All Unplayed" option in on the sync interface. Done. No difference. It seems like my Smart Playlist is overriding this setting.
Any suggestions?
To test this, I played through a few Podcasts and all of them dropped from the Playlist (e.g. play count).
Try moving all your podcasts to a playlist: Ed's Podcasts. Then set up another playlist called "Never Played Podcasts." Set the parameters to read: Play count = 0; playlist = Ed's Podcasts. Then just move the "Never pLayed podcasts" over to your iPod.
I know I've been super annoyed by not being able to play my un-listened-to podcasts in a row, but I never took the next step to figure out how best to go about fixing that. Totally gonna try this today.
Try Mediafly.com. The SyncClient integrates with iTunes as well as most other devices and does exactly what you want. (of course I'm biased... I work at Mediafly).
1. Posted by: Jason DeRusha on September 28, 2007 4:53 PM:
I have a smart playlist with all my unplayed songs on my iPod. When I get home, I'll try to figure out how I did that.