I get why iTunes does this. You don’t necessarily want your hard drive clogged up by subscriptions you’ve forgotten about. But more often than not I do want to keep updating because I occasionally like to listen to loads of episodes of a show at once. Maybe it’s the DVD box set phenomena that’s done this but there’s not much better than having 4 hours of Laurie Taylor wittering away as I’m working. Or the other night when I couldn’t sleep and listened to 5 episodes of The News Quiz back to back. If only there was a way to disable this…
I reckon this is more because Apple doesn’t want unused podcasts clogging up it’s bandwidth. cheeky gits.
the whole point is that a podcast is audio when you want it – if i choose not to listen to something that is my business.
Except Apple doesn’t host podcasts. It just lists the RSS URLs in categories. The files are hosted by the producers of the podcast.
Other than policing to make sure no-one’s being illegal (and therefore shouldn’t be in the ITMS directory) the podcast service costs them nothing.
Another example: Google doesn’t serve you web pages itself when you search for them. It simply tells you where they are. ITMS and podcasts is the same.
Wow, that’s going to be annoying.
I listen to most of my podcasts on my nokia mobile phone, which directly downloads the podcasts overnight.
Occasionally I want to listen to a podcast when I’m in my house, so I also have my Mac download the same podcast, even though I tend not to listen to them on that machine that often.
I guess I’m going to find some of them randomly unsubscribing.
This is indeed annoying, I’ve yet to try this solution to the problem.