Podcasts & Smart Playlists

Question

Level 1

9 points

Podcasts & Smart Playlists

I'd really like to make a smart playlist that contains (for example) the 25 oldest podcasts (by release date) that are unplayed. I can't find "release date" anywhere in the smart playlist criteria. Is this feature missing, or am I just not seeing it?

Posted on Oct 5, 2005 7:33 AM

Reply

Answer 1

monk3y

Level 4

1,605 points

Oct 5, 2005 11:25 AM in response to Will Taylor

You're right, the Release Date filter criteria does not exist.
You can however do this:

1) Podcast "is true".
2) Limit to (25) "songs" selected by "most recently added"

Reply

Answer 2

Will Taylor Author

Level 1

9 points

Oct 5, 2005 12:35 PM in response to monk3y

The "most recently added" criteria doesn't work for me, since I added a lot of podcasts (including back issues) at the same time when I initially got iTunes. In some cases, I have more than 25 podcasts that all have the same add date even though they span several months of release dates.

Do other users want this feature? Does Apple have a formal process for submitting feature requests for iTunes? Is there a plan to add Release Data to the filter (or better yet, to the "sort by") criteria?

Reply

Answer 3

monk3y

Level 4

1,605 points

Oct 5, 2005 12:50 PM in response to Will Taylor

The iTunes Feedback page no longer has a feature request option, as it's primarily for requesting music for the iTunes Music Store. Your best bet would be to use the iPod Feedback page.

Reply

Answer 4

Will Taylor Author

Level 1

9 points

Oct 5, 2005 12:54 PM in response to monk3y

Yeah, that's the first place I looked and noticed that it was for requesting new music. Thanks for the link!

Reply