I use iTunes to manage my podcasts. I know this isn’t the ideal way to do it but I find that it’s the easiest because I can easily sync them to my iPod.
I have one major gripe though: subscription settings are universal. There is only one setting for how podcasts are managed. An example might help.
Say there are two podcasts (I’ve got way more but I’ll make it easy on you guys) that I like. The first is a weekly show that I never want to miss but if I do, I want the last episode to be saved until I watch it. The second podcast is released daily and I don’t really care if I miss one. You’d think it’d be easy to set up iTunes to save all episodes of the first one and only keep the newest of the second. You’d be wrong.
In fact, I have to save all episodes and go through and delete manually. I won’t pretend that I’m so pressed for time that I can’t take a minute and delete old shows everyday but it’s the principle. This is fairly basic functionality that is left out.
All this being said, I also won’t pretend that Steve Jobs reads my blog religiously and, thus, won’t tell his developers to work on this pronto. Maybe sometime soon though? Thanks Steve.
No Comments