Ester thanks again I used option delete and that did the trick.
Sometimes it automatically deletes itself based on the play count
being 0, however it often doesn't. I will read and get a understanding
of the rest of your reply, but for now that solved the issue. You're
always so informative s and it's allot more helpful info than a simple
fix for learning more and more on Mac operations. Thanks again! I've
come a long way since the renaming the home folder problem, thanks for
that too!
On Mar 19, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Esther wrote:
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?
