Itunes Podcast Automatic Unsubscribe - Any way around it? Stupid feature!
We are just finishing up an advanced publishing system for audio and video podcast publishers. Our system will allow publishers to place a button on their site and with one click get subs to their podcast.
They can preload episodes in a sequential order set the date and time frame that the next episode is sent automatically. They can also charge subscription fees for their podcast... it gets a lot more advanced than that but that is the basic concept.
Today I stumbled upon: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html#_Toc526931673
Which says:
"Automatic Unsubscribe
iTunes automatically unsubscribes from a podcast if the following conditions are both met:
1. The user has not played any episode downloaded in the past 5 updates (there may be more than one episode downloaded per update.
2. More than 5 days have elapsed since an episode was played."
The entire purpose of a podcast is to subscribe to you will not miss anything... so what is the automatic unsubscribe feature for?
Is there a way for a user to disable it?
My publishers depend on their subs remaining subscribed. It seems that this feature basically would automatically kick you off your subscribed podcasts if you go on vacation for a week and five episodes are released that week.
I see no purpose in this at all and it totally screws with paid publishers and especially those who set up preloaded episodes that go out sequentially in our system.
What are my options? Any workarounds? Or will we need to kick itunes ot the curb and choose or develop another podcatcher?
As I read it, "both" conditions have to be met for unsubscribe. I get episodes I have subscribed to that only come out about once a month, and every month, I get the episode automatically downloaded. I think it has to be both, that you have not played any of the past 5 episodes that were downloaded, nor played any of the past episodes for 5 days since the 5th one downloaded. So if you put out a weekly podcast and people get your downloads, there should be no problem. Unless they simply don't list to them.
I think!
That's how I read it, and in my experiences with subscription to a monthly podcast.
Just my 2 cents.
Todd
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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