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iTunes 101: How to prevent podcasts from spoiling

by Sang Tang (Jul 8th, 2009)

Like milk, podcasts will spoil if left unused for a period period of time -- at least in the mind of iTunes. iTunes will automatically unsubscribe from a podcast that hasn't been listened to within the last 5 updates, and more than 5 days have passed since an episode was played. The rationale, as ...

TUAW Tip: Removing duplicate songs from iTunes

by Cory Bohon (Dec 15th, 2008)

Have you ever been listening your iTunes library and wondered why a song played more than one time? Duplicate songs in your library can be very annoying, and waste precious space on your hard drive. In this TUAW Tip, I'm going to show you how to get rid of duplicates using a built-in feature in ...

Next talkcast: Open phones and giveaways

by Christina Warren (Apr 26th, 2008)

This Sunday night at 10 PM EST, Michael Rose, our consumate Talkcast host, will once agin be out of town, so I'll be taking his place. Hopefully, we won't run into any of the technical difficulties we ran into last week. We'll be taking open calls and discussing the top stories of the week, ...

Ringtone Subscriptions in iTunes

by Erica Sadun (Mar 24th, 2008)

Here's a clever concept that I would never have dreamed up myself in a million years: iTunes ringtone podcasts! The idea is this: you subscribe to podcast that delivers ringtones to iTunes and allows you to sync them directly to your iPhone. I gave it a try, downloading one "episode" and sure enough ...

How to: Create a smart podcast playlist in iTunes

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2008)

I picked up Awaken with the recent Macheist deal, and with it I planned to do something I've been thinking about doing for a long time with iTunes: try and figure out a way to wake myself up with a short roundup of the daily podcasts I never seem to find a time to listen to during the day itself. ...

Talkcast returns, live tonight 12/2 at 10 pm ET

by Michael Rose (Dec 2nd, 2007)

After our week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, the TUAW talkcast crew is back in action tonight. Join Christina Warren, Lisa Hoover, Dave Caolo and yours truly for a rundown of the week's top stories and previews of our upcoming gift guides. To join in live, visit our Talkshoe page for call-in ...

BBC introduces iPhone-optimized Podcast Page

by Erica Sadun (Nov 14th, 2007)

The iPhone mobile music store doesn't serve up podcasts, so where are you gonna go for a fresh hot bowl of Auntie Beeb? Why, to the BBC itself, silly. The BBC's radio labs blog just announced a new iPhone-savvy webpage that offers simple phone and iPod touch browsing. If you're on a touch or ...

TUAW Talkcast #5: In with the new, farewell to the old

by Michael Rose (Sep 4th, 2007)

Last week's TUAW Talkcast, recorded live, featured the debut of TUAW's new team members Jason Clarke, Lisa Hoover and Nik Fletcher, and the swan song of our departing colleague David Chartier. It clocks in at 40 minutes and 28 MB. You can pick it up from our RSS & iTunes feeds, via direct ...

TUAW Talkcast #4: Best of the Week & more - Join us tonight!

by David Chartier (Aug 23rd, 2007)

It's that time of the week again folks - the TUAW Talkcast is once again upon us! Our regular host Michael Rose is taking the week off, so I'll be taking the hosting reigns for the night. Join TUAW bloggers Dave Caolo, Erica "iPhone Pwner" Sadun, Mike Schramm and myself for a discussion on the ...

ESPN brings PodCenter to the iPhone

by David Chartier (Aug 20th, 2007)

Add ESPN to your list of major media outlets who have designed a portal specifically for the iPhone. While they might have had an easier time customizing their PodCenter with podcasts and downloadable media for the iPhone (after all, they were already halfway there with a PodCenter), they win ...

A huge collection of Apple TV resources

by David Chartier (Aug 14th, 2007)

Poor Apple TV - the iPhone has been outshining the handy little media hub, and Jobs arguably might not have helped matters by calling it a hobby (though, personally, that makes me optimistic for its future). Fortunately, last100 has compiled a very, very thorough list of Apple TV resources that ...

MacRadio opens beta for new design

by Mike Schramm (Aug 8th, 2007)

MacRadio, the home base for a few Mac-related podcasts, has announced they're going to facelife the entire site, and instead turn it into a hub for all sorts of Mac podcasts-- a "podcast portal for the Mac world," as they say. I sure thought that was the Podcasts tab in iTunes, but maybe that's just ...

�bercaster, all-in-one podcasting tool receives new features, enhancements

by David Chartier (Jul 23rd, 2007)

It's been a while since we've written about Übercaster, the all-in-one tool for recording, editing and publishing podcasts, but that doesn't mean its developer, Eberhard Rensch, hasn't been hard at work on it. Through updates over the last couple of months, Übercaster v1.1.5 has gained a ...

CoverFlow, "Get all" podcasts in iTunes 7.3.1

by Mike Schramm (Jul 20th, 2007)

A reader of ours sends along (thanks!) two cool new podcasting features in iTunes 7.3.1 that I hadn't noticed yet. First and foremost, podcasts are now browseable with CoverFlow, which is awesome (and probably points to an eventual implementation of CoverFlow on the iPod, if speculation is your ...

TUAW Podcast #23: There and Back Again with the iPhone

by David Chartier (May 18th, 2007)

The TUAW podcast is back in effect ladies and gents, though this week we're a tad late due to some technical difficulties. Nevertheless, expect a steady new stream of podcasts and screencasts from here on out, starting with today's entry: TUAW Podcast #23: There and Back Again with the iPhone. ...