I have a bunch of podcasts that I subscribe to in iTunes and I wanted to be able to listen to them without having to pick and choose each one. What I did was set up a Smart Playlist in iTunes that is essentially my podcast radio station. Here”s how it works.
First, you can subscribe to a bunch of podcasts that you like by browsing “Podcasts” in the iTunes Store or by subscribing directly from the author”s site. Once you have a bunch of podcasts that you like in your Podcasts directory in iTunes, click on “iTunes”, “Preferences”" from your menu bar. Here you can set how often to check for new episodes and for how long to keep them.
Next we want to create a new Smart Playlist. Do this by selecting “File”, “New Smart Playlist”" from the menu bar. I have the following rules set for my Podcasts Playlist:
- Match “all” of the following rules.
- if “Podcast” “is true”.
- and if “Date Added” “is in the last” “14″ “days”.
- and if “Playcount” “is” “0″.
- “Live updating”.
The important rules here are to match all, make sure podcast is true and play count is zero and live updating is checked. You can change or remove the date added field. What these settings do is do is to supply a list of all of you podcasts that you have not listened to (and, in this case, are only 14 days old). Once you have these setting created click “OK” and name your Smart Playlist. I call mine “Podcasts”.
The final step we want to do is sort our podcast list. I like to listen to the most recent ones first so what I”ve done is to sort by “Release Date” with the most recent being first. You can expose the Release Date column by right clicking on the column title and choosing Release Date from the list. If you want to listen to the oldest first just click on the Release Date column header to resort by oldest first.
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