Auto delete played podcasts

In the past, whenever I would dock my ipod shuffle it would sync and automatically erase any podcasts that I have listened to.
It doesn't do this anymore? I have to manually delete them in itunes now. Please help.

I too have the same problem. Could someone please add a solution?

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I had previously tried
Smart Playlist - all podcasts
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AND
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And that didn't work, I guess because the first playlist won't update. After reading your post I thought that it ought to work the other way around if the playcount is being analysed first:
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I do not auto delete any podcasts inside of the Podcast app
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Please fix the auto-delete bug

* I've set ALL my podcasts to "Do Not Auto-Delete"
* My podcast prefs are check "Manually" / "download most recent" / keep "all episodes"
* I listen to a portion of a podcast on my ipod (NOT all of it)
* I updated my subscriptions
* I sync the iPod
* The podcast I listened to (a small part of) is deleted from my ipod.
PLEASE fix this.

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The auto-delete functionality in iTunes refers to deleting the podcasts from your computer. The control for removing played podcasts from the device is on the podcasts tab available when the device is attached.
Whether or not podcasts are auto-deleted from you computer is based on the podcasts settings in iTunes. The settings button is on the bottom of the podcasts page (next to the undelete button). In the popup window under "Settings for:", select "Podcast Defaults" to change to default for all podcasts, or a specific podcast that you want to behave differently from the default settings.
When choosing "Podcast Defaults", the two selections at the bottom of the window will be unlocked. When choosing any single podcast, uncheck the "Use Defaults" checkbox to unlock these fields.
Changing the selection "When new episodes are available:" will affect how many (zero, one, or all) podcasts to download.
Changing the selection "Episodes to keep:" will affect which, if any, podcasts are auto-deleted.
As to removing podcasts from the device, this changed for me with the most recent update to the iPod software. Podcasts are removed from the iPhone if they have been played, but they remain on the iPod until they have been deleted from iTunes. I have not experienced a case where a podcast persisted on the device after it was deleted from the computer. I am hopeful that Apple will fix this with the next iPod software update.

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