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September 12, 2008

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Podcasts just got a little bit friendlier in iTunes 8

Posted Sep. 12, ’08, 9:25 AM PT by Kate Marshall
Category | iTunes

new podcast settings.jpgPodcasts…is there anything they can’t do? Wait, that’s donuts. But podcasts are perfectly useful in their own right, particularly when combined with an iPod and headphones. But with a growing iTunes library, I sometimes find it hard to shoehorn everything onto an 8GB iPod touch, so only the most recent podcast episodes make it onto ol’ “Ruby.” Lucky for me, iTunes 8 now lets me adjust settings for each podcasts instead of a “one size sort of fits all” method.

Instead of messing with podcast settings within iTunes’s preference panes, just click the “settings” button at the bottom of the “Podcasts” section of iTunes. Up pops a nifty little box with options for how often iTunes should search for a new podcast episode—for each podcast in your iTunes library. Hee, cool! For instance, I’ve told iTunes to only check for new episodes of “Apple Keynotes” manually since they don’t come as often as say, NPR’s Fresh Air.

With these new settings, it’s also possible for iTunes to keep only the most recent episodes of one podcast, while keeping all episodes of a second podcast. Sweet.

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