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This is a bit weird. I have like 40 podcasts under one podcast (I'm behind in listening to them). Rather than copy all of them to the ipod I created a smart playlist that had these rules:
Podcast is true.
Artist contains XXXX (xXXx= name of the author)
Rating is at least * (I use one star and select the one's I want to listen to based on stars).
Then I sync the smart playlist to my ipod.
Now, all the ipods show under the smart playlist and I can't get them to go away. I would think the rating is the problem. I've "selected all" and changed the rating to "none" but the podcasts all still show under the smart playlist.
Any idea what has happened or what I'm doing wrong?
Thx.

I figured this out on my own. I noticed when looking at the smart playlist that somehow "one star" had become noted for the ENTIRE series. So it was copying everything over.

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