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CoverFlow, "Get all" podcasts in iTunes 7.3.1
The other new feature works great, though-- when browsing a specific podcast, you'll notice that a new "Get All" button shows up near the title. When you hit that, iTunes will automatically download all available episodes of that podcast. Depending on how many are available, that might be a pretty big addition to your collection, but if you find a really good podcast that you can't get enough of, it's great to have one-click access to everything out there.
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zyphbear said 5:51PM on 7-20-2007
Coverflow is an interesting feature with Podcasts.
But for some reason, it does NOT show the "get all" button on my podcasts when selected, only the arrow to go to the Podcast directory.
My version of a similar screenshot:
http://myskitch.com/zyphbear/itunes731-missinggetall-20070720-174728.jpg
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Terts said 6:31PM on 7-20-2007
zyphbear:
Episodes/shows have to be available for download for the "get all " button to show.
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sidepodcast said 8:28PM on 7-20-2007
looks to me as though coverflow picks the first (e.g. oldest) show available list and uses the artwork from that file. seems to be the case for both audio and video shows, at least on my machine.
it don't understand why coverflow doesn't simply download the image specified in the iTunes feed?
you know the line that says "itunes:image", the one that represents the whole podcast?
odd.
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RamJaw said 10:52PM on 7-20-2007
Another feature that is less noticeable. When you used to subscribe to a podcast in the iTunes Store, you used to be sent to the Podcast library in your Source list. To continue browsing and downloaded, you needed to re-enter the store. This was severely annoying. Now you simply press subscribe or get podcast and continue browsing without being taken to another area of iTunes.
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William Beem said 11:45PM on 7-20-2007
One man's feature is another man's bug. I hate seeing podcasts mixed in with my albums. I'd rather see a separate coverflow for podcasts, or none at all. To me, this is like ketchup in my ice cream. Just because I like both doesn't mean that I like them together.
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Aeron Prometheus Michaelangelo said 6:50AM on 7-21-2007
Get All has been a Podcast feature since 7.3.0. I sent that in to you guys two weeks ago, thanks for forgetting me.
Cover Art for podcasts is governed by which episode you downloaded last. I.E. if you download episode 2 through 10 and then episode 1, the art for episode 1 will be shown. If you download episode 1 through 10 then the art for episode 10 will show. What sucks is if you subscribe to podcasts that occasionally forget to put art on the episode (TWiT) and you have to go for a week seeing the generic "note" art before it gets fixed. To my knowledge there's no way to manually tell iTunes to direct coverflow to a specific episode of a podcast for the art. I usually just find the best art in the series, and install it on all subsequent episodes myself.
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Ken Carter said 10:56AM on 7-21-2007
The podcast coverflow is already in the iPhone
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Sulayman said 2:13PM on 7-21-2007
I get the feeling that the image has to be embedded in the audio file itself, under the Artwork tab in the info pane. I hope not, as that makes podcasting a little more tricky for each file.
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Reg Muffet said 11:39PM on 7-21-2007
> "One man's feature is another man's bug. I hate seeing podcasts mixed in with my albums"
Agree 100%. Especially on the iPhone.
Seeing classic album ART such as Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band next to the album "art" for some 12 year old's ramblings on Harry Potter, is just fundamentally wrong for many reasons.
1. Podcasts are rarely music.
2. Podcasts don't have the same "stature" as a music album and the cover art reflects this.
3. Podcasts are transient: they take an hour to prepare, an album takes months of years, and the nature of the artwork show that.
4. It makes demos of iPhone's turn-on-side coverflow an embarrassment if you have a lot of podcasts.
5. True album artwork tells a story, captures a mood, reflects a theme, or a thousand other things that a piece of art does. Podcast artwork is more like a company logo or shop sign, it identifies a recording.
I think showing Podcast artwork alongside music album artwork has to be in the top 3 things I most dislike about the iPhone.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
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Alexander said 12:33AM on 7-22-2007
I'm having a hard time with the audiobook cover art...they're so small by default that they look horrendous on the iPhone screen, so I thought I would change the cover art. You can't do it. Is there a way to unlock the file other than burning and reimporting so that I can use a larger cover art?
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bud said 9:07PM on 8-01-2007
You mean you do not have an iPhone? This has been the way. Actually it is default for the iPhones iPod coverflow, it is not (Thank God) default for iTunes itself, in coverflow mode. Except for some podcasts that slip through as Music. That is, you have the music library highlighted, you see only music. Podcasts highlighted, podcasts. Video content.
I too, do not see this as a plus. I think iTunes needs an overhaul of the confusion to iTunes since the intro of the video iPods. It can be done with smart playlists, to segregate out the different sorts of podcasts (audio only vs Video; I do not see how the podcasts with slideshows get segregated if at all.
Coverflow is not an ideal ipod interface, and the old school iPod interface often gives one better choice of certain types of content.
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