I now have my itunes syncing unheard podcasts into a smart playlist – my smart playlist is no longer empty on my ipod. Although I didn’t get a direct answer from a variety of places, Thanks go to GotKnowHow that gave me the final key to getting things to work.
I had to do the following:-
- I ended up deleting all of my old podcasts (that has given me a lot of disk space back).
- Created/modified my smart playlist called Unheard Podcasts to ensure I have the following set –
- Playcount is less than 1
- Kind is MPEG audio file (removes video)
- Genre is podcast
- Live updating is on
- I selected my ipod in itunes, then the podcasts tab and unchecked “automatically include all unplayed episodes of all podcasts”.
- Down the bottom of the screen under “include episodes from playlists” I made sure my “Unheard Podcasts” playlist was selected.
After a sync it all seemed to work.
I’m not sure what the final step was, but this combination seems to work.
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Thank you for providing this solution. A combination of your steps 3 and 4 apparently did it for me.
version 9.0.3 addresses this problem.