Tuesday
Feb122008
iPod/Podcast Tip
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 2:08PM
Did I mention that I got an iPod classic for Christmas, so now I watch video podcasts on my iPod? Well I did. It's fantastic, and it also plays Phase by Harmonix. :-)
Anyway the fact that podcasts are listed in reverse chronological order is very annoying. I finally got annoyed enough to look up a work-around. Here's the trick:
When you pick Podcasts from the menu you get a list of podcast feeds, showing how many episodes you have of each feed. Select a feed and press Play, not Select. If you do this it plays the episodes in chronological order. As a bonus, it will seamlessly segue to the next track in the list when it finishes. That sounds sort of obvious, but it's NOT the way it works when you play individual podcasts from the reverse chronological list.
I don't know how extensive the support for this is. It works on my iPod classic.
Edit 2/15/08 I forgot to mention that this only works if you have shuffle turned off. Sorry for any confusion!
Anyway the fact that podcasts are listed in reverse chronological order is very annoying. I finally got annoyed enough to look up a work-around. Here's the trick:
When you pick Podcasts from the menu you get a list of podcast feeds, showing how many episodes you have of each feed. Select a feed and press Play, not Select. If you do this it plays the episodes in chronological order. As a bonus, it will seamlessly segue to the next track in the list when it finishes. That sounds sort of obvious, but it's NOT the way it works when you play individual podcasts from the reverse chronological list.
I don't know how extensive the support for this is. It works on my iPod classic.
Edit 2/15/08 I forgot to mention that this only works if you have shuffle turned off. Sorry for any confusion!
Reader Comments (3)
I have a side question related to podcasts in iTunes... basically, my Japanese language podcast semi-frequently makes mistakes and re-releases various files. And since I've been playing catch up ever since I discovered them, I usually have downloaded the files months before.
Anyway, I have NOT figured out how to make iTunes re-get a file. Hitting remove deletes that episode from your list forever. Manually deleting the file from the OS results in iTunes constantly asking you to Explore your way on the hard drive to the correct location. Refresh and Update Podcast both do nothing to help recognize that your file is not latest. I'm guessing this is the only time this phrase has ever been uttered, but this is one time I wish iTunes was more like Perforce.
Any ideas?
Well, I haven't tried to "reget" files very often. I know unsubscribing and then *resubscribing* to the podcast will restore the "Get" links, but that is sort of drastic. If you know the episode name can you hunt it out manually on the iTunes store via search? I know you can *download* podcasts without being subscribed, so maybe you can find the old ones that way.
With this particular podcast, I subscribe to the premium not-free feed, which they don't even list on the iTunes store. OTOH hand, as a paying member I can just go to their website and view any file there, which makes it easy enough to isolate the file that I need to swap out. It just seems like there ought to be a way to make iTunes do it.