"Recently Updated" on iPod Touch Only Shows Music, not Podcasts

Question

I have a 'Recently Updated' smart Playlist in iTunes, set for 'Added in the Last Week' and 'Live Update'. The iTunes 'Recently Added' shows music, podcasts and movies, but when sync'ed, the iPod Touch (3rd Gen, 32GB) 'Recently Added' only shows music.
Tried setting 'Media Type' to 'Podcasts' and 'Music' but it results in an empty playlist...
Any ideas?
TIA,

Answer 1

There are some known quirks with how smart playlists sync to the Touch. In theory the contents (and sort order) should match when you compare the playlist on the Touch vs. your iTunes library, but that's not the case due to a bug in the 3.1.x OS on your Touch.
As a workaround you can try un-checking the Live Updating option, but then that not only disables Live Updating on the Touch it also disables it in iTunes, so you'd have to re-check this option and then un-check it again each time you re-sync.
Another possibility is to define a mixed-logic smart playlist:
Date Added Is In The Last Week
AND
(Media Kind is Music) OR (Media Kind is Podcast)
You can do this as follows:
1- Enter your Date Added criteria
2- Click on the (...) to "indent" the next criteria.
3- Add the criteria "Media Kind Is Music"
4- Click the "+" button to the right of this criteria, then add "Media Kind Is Poscast"
5- Set the top match rule to "All" and set the 2nd match rule (after your Date Added criteria) to "Any".