Comments on: P.P.M. (Personal Podcast Management)

By: Vince Anido

Vince Anido — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:47:05 +0000

Will: I’m not really sure, because I don’t personally have one, but I think you should be able to select your iPod in iTunes, find the files you want to delete, and hit the delete key.

That should remove it from your iPod but leave it in iTunes. There should be a way to have iTunes automatically delete them though. Check the help file.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:52:36 +0000

how do you delete a podcast from the ipod?
thanks

By: Vince Anido

Vince Anido — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:11:12 +0000

I’ve recently learned that the iPod _does_ keep track of how many times a file is played while it’s disconnected from the server, then it syncs that back with your computer when yo u sync it.

It doesn’t seem like a huge jump to have iTunes automatically delete the podcast from the player if it’s been played a user-configurable number of times.

I need to look more into this again. I use J.River Media Center for all my music, and I highly recommend it. I believe it syncs with pretty much every player out there, and has very powerful syncing abilities. I just haven’t had too much extra time to hack it.

I might write a follow-up article in a month or so, as this podcasting space is expanding so quickly, things get out-dated quite quickly.

Let me know if you find anything that works for you.

By: SkitchSKS

SkitchSKS — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:58:56 +0000

I am having this very same problem. I”m using a creative zen micro with the ‘play for sure’ firmware.

I’m using doppler to download the podcasts and then WMP autoplaylist. (which only searches for podcasts of teh last 7 days) and then copies that to the mp3 player.

When I’m done listening to the podcast my natural response is to delete the podcast thinking that only new podcasts will be copied over. Wrong! I deleted the podcast from the mp3 player only to find WMP copy them back over.

This is a great idea for regular music playlists, but doesn’t work so well for the radio like nature of podcasts.

I know that many mp3 players have a count of how many times a song was listened to, so I believe it would be possible to delete based on that variable the next time the mp3 player syncs.

I would suggest that someone write a script to handle this for WMP or a new sync manager if it’s possible.

I would buy the redchair products if they supported this type of podcasting management features.

By: Vince Anido

Vince Anido — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:24:38 +0000

Yes, this is a new feature of iTunes since I wrote this article – not that they stole my idea or anything.

The thing is that AFAIK, they still don’t integrate this funtionality into their players. For instance, you can’t listen to it on your iPod, sync it with iTunes and have it know you listened to it, can you?

By: Podstar

Podstar — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:48:26 +0000

But you can do this with Itunes no?

Just set Itunes to only keep the last podcast or the listened to podcasts. I set it to only keep the last unlistened to one and then I always only have one episode (the latest one) of each show. If I miss one I dont really care since I treat the content like radio.