ITunes USED to removed played podcast episodes automatically! No more :(

I sync iTunes with my iPod Touch (most people do!) and the podcasts used to automatically remove themselves from the iPod during a sync with iTunes when I had played them. Now they stay there until I manually delete the files off iTunes. (Even if I delete them off the iPod, they resync onto it during the next sync!)
I have the iTunes settings to keep "all unplayed eposides", but it seems to be keeping them even after they're played! The Blue Dot has disappeared off iTunes, but still it keeps putting it back onto the iPod!
What's the fix to this nuisance?

Thank you! That solved the issue... Unfortunately I deleted some of the Smart Playlists before I realised that I could edit their properties to remove the podcasts and Auiobooks. I now only have "90s Music, Music Videos, My top Rated, Top 25 Most played" - what are the other standard ones and what are their settings so that I can recreate them?
Cheers!

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This just started happening to me. I discovered after much playing around that the podcast will stay on the device even after being played if it is also listed on a Smart Playlist for which the rules don't include a rule based on the number of plays. So, for instance, I recently added the Smart Playlists called "today" and "Recently Added". If you command-click these, and Edit, you will see that the rules that define them do not include anything to filter out played episodes. To each one I added "Plays is 0" and that fixed it.
Alternatively, with the device plugged in, click on the device name on the left side of iTunes, click Podcasts from the iTunes options (across the top, i.e., Summary...Info... Podcasts...), and on the Podcasts page, uncheck all Smart Playlists that may be checked.
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Does anyone have any advice on the best way to remove played podcasts from my touch? I have my synch settings set to sych only all unplayed. If I just delete the podcasts, they get added back in because iTunes doesn't see them as having been played. However, iTunes is not automatically deleting the podcasts that have been played from my touch. So now I'm in a situation where I have no space left on my touch because it's filled with podcasts that iTunes refuses to remove.
I'd be very interested in hearing how I can address this problem.
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I had previously tried
Smart Playlist - all podcasts
. podcast is true
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. playcount is 0
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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 had previously tried
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But that won't work either. While the first playlist updates fine, the second one never updates and continues to display content that no longer appears in the playlist it is built on. Frustrating. I'm sure there must be a shortcut that hasn't occurred to me yet.

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I clicked something as I was mousing around with iTunes. One of my podcast episodes started to play. I never intentionally listen to media on my PC, so I stopped the play somehow (I forgot what I did to stop it). However, the podcast episode is now designated as "playing". I would like to un-designate the episode as "playing". How can this be done in iTunes?

turingtest2 wrote:
Apple rejects my alias wrote:
I simply want the podcast to not have the speaker symbol beside it (see iTunes help on "symbols"), which means that it is playing (albeit paused). I also want the scrubber bar for the episode to go away from the top of the iTunes window.
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tt2
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Hi folks,
I listen to a lot of podcasts. When I used an iPod the sync unplayed option. Once I listened to a podcast it was removed (saving space for more podcasts). With my iPhone I've got the options set up correctly (i.e. set at Sync Unplayed) but podcasts are not removed once I play them.
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I am having the same problem.
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I know this is a little bit old, but I started having this problem, and this thread was one of the ones that showed up. I believe I figured out a little bit more, at least in my instance.
I have a 5C, running the latest iOS, and the latest iTunes running on the latest Mavericks.
If you're having what I'm having, you don't see multiple copies browsing the iPhone Podcasts app; you only see the multiples when you go to "on this iPhone" in iTunes, or click the device in the sidebar. I had a similar issue; I was seeing something like a dozen copies of the same Freakonomics podcast, and often another one was getting added after I synced.
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Well finaly broke down and gave rebuilding from the XML file a try. That's solving a problem with a sledghamer.
So yes my songs now end up in the right length, but:
It duplicated a huge part of my exsisting library, and maybe moved parts of it or maybe deleted files*. No idea which. Original itunes library was 620+ gigs and now I have two itunes librarys each 430+- gigs. Look forward to figuring that out!
It turned a massive number of my Podcasts into songs. So that will be fun to disentangle.
iPod and iPhone preferences don't copy, so I have to rebuild all my phone sync settings.
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