Hi Shaun, You wrote that you want to delete podcasts that you've listened to from your smart playlist and also from iTunes.
Option+delete should remove these tracks from your smart playlist and from iTunes, and also works to delete tracks from your iPod. However, if you sync'ed your iPod I'm surprised that you smart playlist hasn't updated to indicate these podcasts were listened to (if one of your rules was "Play Count is 0", the podcasts should have fallen off the smart playlist). If you want to use smart playlists to control when you auto-delete episodes in iTunes, you need to know that the preference setting in the iPod menu under iTunes preferences determines how many podcasts are kept in iTunes. Command+comma for preferences then command+2 for the Podcasts menu. There are settings that determine how frequently to check for new podcasts, how many to download when new podcasts are found (all or just latest), and what to keep (e.g. all episodes, all unplayed episodes, most recent episode, last 2, 3, 4, 5, or 10 episodes). This is a global setting. If you want to make exemptions for individual podcasts series or episodes, you can do this from the contextual menu. For example, if you want iTunes to auto-delete all podcasts once you've listened to them, you can set your podcasts preference to keep all unplayed episodes. But if you want keep all episodes of the Screenless Switchers podcasts, go to the folder and in the contextual menu choose "Do not autodelete". If, however, there is one of those episodes that you don't want to keep, you could go to the individual episode, and select "Allow Autodelete". One other complication is that any episode that you specifically individually downloaded -- for example, if you selected "Download Podcast Episode" from the contextual menu to get an episode that was not automatically downloaded as part of your subscription -- will be flagged as "Do not autodelete". HTH Cheers, Esther On Mar 19, 2008, at 07:46AM, vashaun jones wrote: >Listers I created a smart playlist that syncs with my I Pod however >the item that I try to delete from the smart playlist doesn't remove >itself even though it asks me if I want to remove it. I have tried the >deletion tactic for the device smart playlist and the one created in >the sources menu. I have tried everything I know to make this sync >correctly and nothing works. Basically I want to delete already >listened to podcast in I Tunes and re-sync the I Pod. What do I need >to do in order to make this happen? > > >
