Hi Holly, >Hi guys. I have a few questions regarding podcasts in itunes. Mainly >if for instance there are 2 new episodes in a feed, itunes seems to >only want to download the first new one in the list i.e the most >recent one. There doesn't seem to be a way to make it get all new >episodes.
I don't know of a way to make iTunes download all podcasts since the last time it checked the feed. You could put in a request for Apple to support such an option. This is a problem particularly for laptop users, since if multiple episodes get posted between the last time you're connected you'll only get the last one automatically downloaded and have to manually download the others. You could have iTunes check the podcast feed hourly instead of daily, but that would only help with multiple episodes posted while you were connected. >Also, when I delete a podcast from my library, there are times when >itunes downloads it again I assume podcasts work the same and if I >don't want an episode anymore it is safe to delete it? Am I wrong >about that? I also sometimes see deleted podcasts get downloaded again, but this mainly seems to happen with the recent versions of iTunes. When there were fewer features this never happened *grin*. Sometimes this happens because the way the authors have set up their podcast feed. One NPR program used to automatically generate an entry for the "latest" episode by reading some web location, and when it got "stuck" you just saw the same episode being repeated as the "episode for that week" for a few weeks until they fixed the problem. It's safe to delete. Cheers, Esther
