That\u2019s just a small sample. Some are updated several times a week, some weekly, and some randomly. But all these audio podcasts keep me entertained while I\u2019m on the move. My time on the road will be increasing fairly soon so I\u2019m adding more podcasts.<\/p>\n
One difficult thing to deal with is a 2 hour trip where I\u2019m listening to different 30 minute long podcasts. I don\u2019t want to be fumbling with the iPod app to switch podcasts. That\u2019s why I decided to look at creating a playlist. A standard playlist in iTunes is easy to set up. But it is static; in other words, you have to add podcasts to it after they download. My iTunes automatically downloads anything it finds so I would have to remember to set up the playlist. And that led me to Smart Playlists.<\/p>\n
A smart playlist dynamically adds podcasts by running a query on your collection\u2019s metadata. It took me a little while to figure out the settings I needed but here\u2019s what I used today:<\/p>\n
This searches for Podcasts (excluding other media such as music which I also have on the iPhone\/iTunes) and specifies that the podcasts must be audio (excluding other video podcasts which I have for some photography\/Photoshop stuff). <\/p>\n Zap: and all my podcasts were ready. After a phone sync, the podcast was ready, and I was able to listen to one podcast after another in the car without having to touch the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Music and talk radio bore me to death. I\u2019ve been commuting to work on the train and tram. For a while I worked on last year\u2019s books. That all wrapped up and then I needed something else. I got an iPad a few months ago and started syncing TV shows onto it via the VLC … Continue reading “Podcasts on my iPhone & Smart Playlists”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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