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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
So, pardon me while go click all those bangs. Batch editing, which is usually very<\/i> well done in iTunes doesn’t apply here.<\/p>\n
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