I’m often confounded by software that’s too smart for my desires. Case in point this morning: as happens every week, several of the podcasts I haven’t listened to for awhile are marked with a little bang in iTunes. It’s stopped updating those podcasts because I haven’t listened to them in so long and wants to know if I’d like to keep downloading new episodes.
As far as I can tell, there is no way to turn this off. That’s life in Apple-land for you: thinking so you don’t have to.
What’s weirdest to me about this feature is that one of the advantages of a podcast (or any feed-enabled content flow) is that you can consume it at your own pace, stocking it up for weeks on end before getting to listening to any given episode.
So, pardon me while go click all those bangs. Batch editing, which is usually very well done in iTunes doesn’t apply here.
There has to be a way to turn this off. So annoying.