How do I play podcasts sequentialy and continously? (Bug/Feature?!)

My new 5th generation Nano plays one podcast, then stops.
I have to actively click on the menu to start a new one.
It is really annoying and dangerous on top of it.
If I am listening to a podcast from one source, lets say the economist, and driving in my car I have to click on this ** thing every 5-15 minutes..... this is totally insane!
I got the iPod because of the Apple's great reputation for usability but I guess I will have to look for alternatives since this issue seems to be around since ages: http://www.danandchoka.net/?p=50
Please tell me that people have come up with a "workable" fix which does not involved editing and creating some play lists all the time.

Not much good news here i'm afraid.
Why do all my iPods behave differently?

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My last Nano (3rd gen, 8 gig) played multiple podcasts from the same source (Example: NPR talk of the nation)one after the other. My new 5th generation Nano plays one podcast, then stops. I've tried making a playlist for my daily podcasts, but it won't sync up w/ my nano. Could this be a firmware issue? Any suggestions?
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I see that this thread has been classified as "answered" but the only option that was suggested (making a playlist for each podcast) is, to me at least, highly unsatisfactory.
If I have 7 podcasts to listen to by one content source, isn't it logical to expect that one could click the first one and expect them to move to the next "track" sequentially once it is finished? To give one example, I had 10 unplayed podcasts in one folder, each around 1 minute in length. The current firmware (version 1.0.2 for Nano 5G) forced me to click three or four times at the conclusion of each podcast to hear the next one. This seems counter-intuitive.
I would be very pleased to see this restored in a future firmware update.

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I like the new feature in update 1.1 for the nano to play podcasts in sequence order. However I have found that it plays the podcasts over and over once played. Also if there are two podcasts in the group and I start with the first one it plays the second one after finishing the first one which I would expect. When it start playing the first one again(which I did not expect) for the second twice if I check the nano interface the second podcast still shows the blue dot indicating it was never played. If I sync up with iTunes the blue dot is removed and it shows a play count of one.
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I am not seeing this.
Can you run through what your settings are? Go into the settings screen and then go into music and general and check to see what your settings might be to explain this.
Also, if you go into settings and at the bottom select to reset settings, it would likely solve the issue.
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