Itunes is immediately in sync with my iphone. This is good but how is it doing this?

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Itunes is immediately in sync with my iphone. This is good but how is it doing this?

Here is what I'm finding. Every morning I listen to a bunch of podcasts before I leave for work. Before I leave, I sync up my podcasts in itunes (connecting it via USB) so that I can then wirelessly sync with a different ipad connected in my car. Done this for a long time.

Since updating the latest iOS for the iphone and other updates on itunes, I've noticed that I will play podcasts, come downstairs, and before I even connect anything these podcasts already show which ones have been played including already being at the mid-way point if I was in the middle of one.

I don't have wi-fi sync enabled. Even if I did, literally 30 seconds elapsed between my being upstairs and down to the imac. I have been researching and must be missing where this is some new feature. I don't see how it's possible but I've done some tests and find this to be consistent.

Any info?

Thanks.

I-mac 24" 2.8ghs intel core 2 duo, 4gb sdram, 1tb hard drive, Ipad 3G 64GB, Mac OS X (10.6.5), 80 gb ipod,160gb classic,32gb ipod touch, Apple TV, 1tb TC

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 5:25 AM

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Dartiesdad

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Feb 5, 2013 5:34 AM in response to Ramblinmanva

Oh my goodness... a good thing! That's a welcome change here.

Myabe you have Home Sharing turned on?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Cheers

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Ramblinmanva Author

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Feb 5, 2013 7:26 PM in response to Dartiesdad

Thanks for the response.

I have homesharing turned on in itunes but the versions I'm playing or local to the device (iphone in this case).

I did more testing tonight and could not duplicate the results. Weird as it has done this a few days in a row for me. I'll keep playing around with it.

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Ramblinmanva Author

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Feb 5, 2013 8:30 PM in response to Dartiesdad

Another update. I did duplicate the same thing. Played a few podcasts. Few minutes later they were synced exactly the same. I have wifi sync turned off and never re-connected it by USB. You may be on to something with homesharing but I'm certain I'm playing a local copy not a streamed copy. Will keep playing around with it.

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Dartiesdad

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Feb 6, 2013 4:36 AM in response to Ramblinmanva

Good morning Clayton

Another option - I wonder if Podcasts are coming in through Settings> ITunes and Apps> Automatic downloads. Perhaps Podcasts through iTunes count as a "free purchase" once you subscribe. Just speculating..

Cheers

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Ramblinmanva Author

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Feb 6, 2013 6:13 PM in response to Dartiesdad

Dartiesdad: Nope, I actually turned off the automatic downloads of the podcasts.

One thing I'm not sure if this matters...I recently decided I hated the podcast application and deleted it choosing instead to listen to podcasts through the music application and maange the downloads through USB connection. Not sure if that impacts anything.

ONe of my podcasts is also not available through itunes. It is jerry-rigged with a third party app forcing it to download through itunes. I've tested it again tonight and my podcasts played on my latest iphone (whether available through itunes or the one I jerry-rigged) both update within a few minutes in itunes even when I don't connect by USB.

I'm thinking this has something to do with icloud and maybe the podcasts being in the music folder?

I just don't know.

I don't think it's working with my ipod touch that is on ios 5.1.1

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Ramblinmanva Author

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Feb 6, 2013 6:18 PM in response to Dartiesdad

One more update.

Although I have my music in the cloud/itunes match, I currently have this feature turned off on all of my ios devices. So my theory may not hold.

I notice that I homesharing is turned on/logged in under my iphone but not under my ipod touch. But I'm thinking it's always been that way.

I sync wirelessly with the ipod touch (it's always in my car in the garage and syncs wirelessly).

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Ramblinmanva Author

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Mar 21, 2013 5:28 AM in response to Dartiesdad

Just an update on this. It's definitely updating the podcasts almost immediately. I just wish I knew how this was driven. I have turned off home sharing on the iphone, turned off the icloud docs/data area and it still updates. I've turned itunes match off as well.

Nice feature but I've been trying to figure out why my phone drains so fast and I wonder if this is one reason. I've done all the usual things and read all the threads about battery drain but I can't help but wonder if an immediate syncing is somehow partly to blame.

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