I met an old colleague yesterday who is now studying radio, I was rocking to my iPod at the time (its the only way I hear music anymore) so showed it to him and asked if he studies these!
He said “No, Broadcasting”, “Broadcasting, what about Podcasting?” “What are they?” “Radio shows on MY schedule” I explained, “I like to listen to Ian Dempsey later in the day than hes on, I like to subscribe to Italian and American Radio shows and listen to them whenever I want”.
Michael was visibly impressed.
On too a serious note, when you’re subscribed to ten or more podcasts, it can be difficult to remember which episodes you’ve heard. Heres a great solution provided by Apples clever software design:
In iTunes, Create a smart playlist by pressing Command-Alt-N or going to the menu bar, click File and then New Smart Playlist. You should this dialog:
In time you’ll create your own rules to suit your needs (e.g you want to limit the playlist to 10 items if you want to save space) and there are a near infinite array of choices for filtering your podcasts (and indeed your music collection).
For our puposes today, we’ll select just two filtering rules,
First Rule: Podcast is True
Second Rule: Play Count is 0
The Dialog should look like this:
Click Ok, your playlist will appear in your iTunes navigation pane with the title “untitled playlist” awaiting modification, name this “Unplayed/Unheard Podcasts”, this playlist contaains ALL unheard podcasts and may be quite large, copy it to your iPod and listen to it, you’ll always now have a well organized playlists of the radio shows you’ve subscribed too.
Enjoy.
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