Monday, May 19, 2008

[Apple iPod] Re: Podcasts

I am sure you are right John. I have an aversion to even opening iTunes sale/web page,
and therefore have never done it. I get all my music form my own CDs or converted from
my vinyl, or borrowed collections and my podcasts from the radio station's own links.
Perhaps one day I will conform and do it the 'Apple way'. ha.
Jules


--- In AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com, "john.messeder" <jmesseder@...> wrote:
>
> (I accidentally clicked the send button.)
> Reason I asked about whether your problem podcasts are through iTunes is
> all my podcasts that I get throguh iTunes go into the podcast folder and
> show up as podcasts on my iPod Classic.
> Those I get through other sources, such as directly from a program site,
> show up in the music listing. I can find them easiest by looking for the
> artist.
> Same thing happens with audiobooks. Those I buy from iTunes go into
> audiobooks just fine. Those I buy from other sources, or copy from my
> CDs -- even though I put them in the audiobooks folder, show up as music.
> It's frustrating, but it's another trick to make sure we all understand
> that Apple Rules.
> Actually, it's a page from Microsoft's playbook, capitalizing on the
> idea that users will take the easiest way out -- anything that's
> pre-installed likely will stay installed and used, rather than the user
> doing what needs to be done to make them third-party stuff work. Those
> podcasts and audio books can be converted to list properly, but it's a
> multi-step, time-consuming process. (And once you learn about playlists
> and searching for artists, the conversions are pretty much not worth the
> effort.)
>
> On 05/18/2008 at 942 -0400
> "Jules" <jules50uk@...> wrote:
>
>
> > I am properly Subscribed to many Podcasts, they still end up in the
> > wrong place.
> > Jules
>
> --
>
> /"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family
> table." /
> (News commentator Eric Sevareid in a radio essay on the 25th anniversary
> of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64)
>


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