dykstraNet

I’ve been listening to Podcasts on my Ipod since late last year. When Apple announced that they would be supporting podcasts in the latest version of ITunes, of course I downloaded it right away. I’ve been using it for a couple weeks and here are a few complaints:

• Why can’t you just give Itunes an RSS URL in order to subscribe to a podcast? This is technically possible, but the feature is buried. Seems like they want to make it hard to subscribe outside of their promotional ITunes interface
• Once I subscribe to a podcast, why is there no back button to get back to the directory where I left off?
• Why is there no playcount column in the list of podcasts to which I have subscribed?
• The software on my Ipod is cumbersome too. Why are podcasts a separate category instead of just another playlist?
• And why can’t I use the star rating interface?
• And why, by default, does the Ipod remove a podcast from my Ipod even though I have only listened to half of it?
• And why doesn’t my Ipod play each podcast concurrently? When one is over, I have to dig it out and explicitly choose the next one.

Otherwise, the functionality was well thought out and works great.

Why not leave a complaint. It feels good.

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