Portable audio player

[Paul Lussier]

Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net> writes:

>>
>> (though, personally, I think the iPod deals with podcasts in a rather
>> crappy manner, as opposed to someone else who loved this feature...)
>
> What do you not like about the way it deals with podcasts? I'm curious.

First off, this may be a result of either my ignorance, or something
inherent in the way podcasts are recorded, I don't know, and I haven't
tried overly hard to rectify the problem...

That being said, my experience has been that when I have a list of
podcasts, such as NPR's Science Friday, I want to listen to them
straight through, as if they were songs in a play list.  When one
ends, I want it to go straight on to the next one without stopping.
For some reason this does not occur.  After every podcast ends my iPod
gets returned to the menu and waits for me to scroll to the next one
and hit the play button.

At one time I downloaded a bunch of "podcasts" of a web site as plain
MP3 files and "imported" them into iTunes and stuffed them into a play
list.  This was my first experience with podcasts.  It worked great.
I listened to the first, and when it finished it just moved on to the
next.  Later, I subscribed to a podcast via iTunes and was horribly
annoyed at the vastly different experience between the behavior of a
"playlist" and that of a "podcast".  I have seen this behavior with
several different "podcasts" to the point where I seldom bother with
them anymore.

Given that this was also several months ago, and that both my iTunes
and iPod software have been updated at least once each since then,
perhaps I ought to revisit it and see if they've "fixed" it.  At first
glance, I don't see any settings on my iPod that control the behavior
of podcasts in any way.  Contrast that with Audio Books, which let me
adjust the speed at which the audio is played.

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Paul
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