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Aug 17, 2007 9:43 AM
by: heliomac
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iTunes won't delete old podcasts
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Mar 7, 2007 11:28 AM
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I've seen other people mention this topic in other threads, but haven't seen any satisfactory resolution. For several months now, I've had a problem with iTunes where it won't auto-delete my old listened to podcasts like it's supposed to.
I have the "Podcasts" preferences set to check for new episodes every day, download all available episodes, and keep all unplayed episodes. When I listen to them on my iPod nano (first gen) and sync with iTunes, the little blue bullets disappear from the podcasts I've listened to as expected. However, the listened to podcasts don't delete themselves. It's a real pain to have to manage this by hand, and this is exactly the kind of thing that Apple is supposed to be making EASY for us.
iTunes also has a problem where old podcast episodes are randomly getting re-downloaded.
Both of these problems are very annoying. I'm really disappointed that Apple has done such a poor job of this. I realize this is turning into a gripe session, but seriously, I have three pretty major problems with podcasting using iTunes and iPod which Apple should really fix because I doubt if I'm the only one.
1. Old podcasts are not getting deleted as they should (yes, this *used* to work, but it hasn't for some time).
2. Really old podcasts (months old) randomly re-download themselves.
3. The iPod *still* insists on sorting podcasts with the newest first rather than giving you an option to play from the oldest unlistened episode. Many podcasts go in sequence, so it's a pain to have to make a custom play list every time I want to listen going from oldest to newest.
That's it. 
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Re: iTunes won't delete old podcasts
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Mar 8, 2007 7:12 PM
in response to: heliomac
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Join thw club, my i-tunes is doing the same thing
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Re: iTunes won't delete old podcasts
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Mar 21, 2007 5:09 AM
in response to: Joe Cosentino
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The random downloading of old podcasts is due to the way iTunes tracks the podcast. It remembers them by the link. If the link changes, ie the publisher moves it to a new page, it shows up as a "new" podcast. Some of the publishers seem to like to move their stuff to an "archive" page and that results in iTunes re-loading it. You might try the download new podcasts option and not all podcasts. If you are keeping up-to-date, that should get the new epsiodes for you.
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Re: iTunes won't delete old podcasts
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Mar 21, 2007 1:04 PM
in response to: heliomac
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I am having the exact same problem. In addtion however I have podcast feeds that don't seem to be updating. I listen to the podcast regularly, yet for some the feed has not updated since january, even though there are new episodes. No exclamation point next to it saying it is broken or that I haven't listened to it in a long time.
I am also having a problem with audio podcasts showing up in the video section of front row. One podcast had one special episode that they released as a video. Now all of the audio podcasts since then seem to be showing up in the front row movies section.
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Re: iTunes won't delete old podcasts
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Apr 5, 2007 12:04 PM
in response to: heliomac
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Hey, I have the same problem. My podcast settings were set to only keep the lastest 10 podcast but it didn't work right for a long time.
Recently I change of computer, so I had to move all my music files from the old one to the new one. I saw that in the new computer I had the same problem so I decided to delete the iTunes Library file and the iTunes Music Library.xml (the one that is inside the iTunes folder). After that I imported the iTunes music folder (where all the music is kept), to iTunes and the problem was gone.
What I didn't like was that all my play count was gone aswell as my purchased playlist but i hope that when I sync it with my iPod at least one of them come back.
I hope this work for you guys cause I know what is like when something does work as you want to.
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Re: iTunes won't delete old podcasts
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Apr 28, 2007 3:12 AM
in response to: heliomac
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I have this issue too, only that it seems to depend on the podcast in question. I've had some be deleted automatically, while others aren't.
I am pretty disappointed by this. I'm generally not much of an itunes fan, but this is something that really should work consistently or not be in there as a feature.
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Re: iTunes won't delete old podcasts
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May 10, 2007 10:42 AM
in response to: heliomac
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YES!!! These are precisely the three issues I'm having with iTunes! I'm using an 80GB iPod Video, and I'm almost exclusively listening to podcasts (yay NPR!). They take up a lot of space on my hard drive because they're not auto-deleting. They delete off of my iPod ok (though it'd be a cool feature if it didn't delete unless it was listened to through the end, but that's nitpicking), but they pile up in my podcasts directory until I delete them manually, even though I have "keep new episodes" selected.
And please, allow for podcasts to play in chronological order on my iPod, oldest on top! I think I remember reading somewhere that having them appear the other way is actually touted as a benifit?
As for the random download of old episodes, I've had that, and it's annoying, but an easy enough thing to delete or skip, and mark as played on the mac.
I had the lack of updates problem for a while, I inexplicably lost Marketplace for several months, but now it's back... Those last two problem aren't Apple's fault, I suspect; just a result of several pieces to a puzzle needing to be exactly right in order to work correctly.
Thanks for re-introducing this topic, here's hoping for a solution!
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Re: iTunes won't delete old podcasts
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Aug 17, 2007 9:43 AM
in response to: heliomac
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I'm not sure if it was a new version of iTunes that did it, but the problem with podcasts not deleting themselves seems to have been solved (at least mostly).
It turns out that iTunes and iPods track whether you've reached the end of a track and don't enable auto-delete until you have. I was in the habit of stopping podcasts before they were done since the end is usually ads or junk. Again, I don't know if this is new behavior since I swear I had tried letting them play in the past, but at least it mostly works now. I still get occasional episodes which don't delete as expected.
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