Question

I am a big iPod user (especially podcasts). I have used iPod touch, iPod classic and iPod nano. I noticed that iTunes stops downloading podcasts that you no longer listen to and stops downloading them. Is there a way to force iTunes to download all episodes of podcasts irrespective of whether you listen to them or not?

I am not interested in just clicking a episode to make iTunes think that I'm listening. I need some kind of programmatic work around or batch script that runs and updates all podcasts/episodes automatically.

Answer 1

By default, iTunes will only download the most recent new podcast. You can change this in the podcast settings ("Settings" button at the bottom of the Podcast view):

Answer 2

Hi dbr, Thank you for answering. I know about the drop down you mentioned long ago. but download all will not download everything once itunes finds that you are not listening to those podcasts. I have 25 to 50 podcasts and many of them don't fetch the latest episode from the server becasue of the apple itunes policy. I hope this makes my point very clear. thanks & please advice if you have any solution