janeway1980 wrote:
I usually listen to the podcast all the way to the end.
Okay, but if you don't, then it's not "played" so will not be deleted.
janeway1980 wrote:
In iTunes in fact it seems to know which ones have been listened to for the most part, judging by the lack of blue dots on a lot of the podcasts.
"For the most part"... ??
It should be all the time.
If you have files in the folders, for an episode that is no longer referenced in iTunes, you will simply have to delete it yourself. I can't explain why that should be without examining your computer, so I think you will simply have to accept that it has happened.
janeway1980 wrote:
When I look at iTunes at View->Podcasts, I don't quite understand what I'm seeing. It shows 205 unplayed podcasts, when in fact I have about 68 unplayed podcasts on my device (as of today). It shows 1993 "Saved Episodes." I have never purposely marked a podcast as "Saved" and I cannot figure out how to "unsave" these podcasts nor how to delete them from iTunes. What does this mean and can I fix it?
Ah! Now that's something different.
A few updates ago, iTunes changed and instead of the number of Podcasts showing how many new, unlistened episodes you had downloaded to your computer, it started including the additional episodes available to be downloaded. So the figure of 205 probably includes the ones online. The other figure (1993 saved - is that what it actually states?) is the number on your computer, presumably including the online ones - even though they are not "on your computer". In other words, the figures are nonsense!
I had been in the habit of noting the number of new episodes of Podcasts that I had in my iTunes Library, but now I can't keep track of it because of this strange way of noting "new". I've had to accept that iTunes has gone backwards in this regard.
