How to turn off continuous play of podcasts?

Yes! I really need this too: having the next episode of a podcast play straight after an episode is finished is driving me crazy. I don't know if this is the right forum for the question though - it's really an iPhone problem.

Here are some discussions of this in the iPhone forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1712204
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1733939
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1707247

It seems a lot of people are saying this is an iPhone 2.1 introduced 'feature'. For me, it is workign this way on an iPod Classic and, as others have noted, a big pain. For me, it seemed to have started with the release of iTunes 8.

IF I could load the iPod with podcasts in the reverse order, with older ones at the top of the list it wouldn't be so bad but when I have several older podcasts to listen to and work myself UP the list, only to have it jump DOWN the list, to a show that has already been played, when a podcast finishes, is WRONG. Please fix it Apple!

HELP! This is what I want to do!

I want to be able to play one video podcast after another in iTunes 8. RIght now I have to play one, close it, and select the next to play it.

I want to play a whole bunch in a row in either iTunes (or FrontRow)

John

Agreed. Had I known there was no way to disable this I wouldn't have upgraded to v2.1 or iTunes 8 or whatever. Creates an administrative nightmare remarking podcasts as new when I sync up. Definately a step backwards when the people who wanted this feature could simply make a "smart playlist" (we would have to make a new playlist for ever podcast... really poor design by Apple here)

John...put them into a Playlist and make sure Shuffle is OFF. They should play continuously. If Shuffle is on, make sure your podcasts are not set to Skip When Shuffling.