Interesting point about iTunes being up the shit, never thought of that, but my guess might be the iPod is up the shit as that seems to be the issue. Might be time for an iPod rebuild! Forget that I just want an iPod with Wifi so I can sync my Ipod without taking it out of the car!

But one thing I have done since I rebuilt my PC was I have cut down on the number of podcasts that I subscribe to. I was clearly not getting through the number of podcasts I wanted to so I had to get a bit ruthless. I put the ones in that were “must” listen to and pretty much ditched the rest. Now I am not suggesting that you ditch us but maybe looking at it and saying “well… I really *want* to listen to all of them – but which ones do I REALLY want to listen to?”.

Another trick I have done is have a few podcasts listed in my “podcasts” that I am not subscribed to – these are the ones where if I get through my must listen to list, I can go and get an episode and listen to it. But because I have not subscribed I don’t feel the pressure to have to listen to it.

I just hope that we make the short list

Mike hide you earbuds in one ear and listen at work, or get a bluetooth headset and pretend your waiting for work related calls

My drive to the office takes 2 hours twice a week. 2 hours of TGGP sounds good to me.

What platform are you using? Win/Mac? Because it sounds like your copy of iTunes is a little FUXXOR3D.

Other ways you could get your podcasts would be with something like Juice and Yamipod (both cross platform), unfortunately there is no really good solution that gives you iTunes like capabilities with Podcast management.

Don’t worry though, I can’t even get to the freakin’ iTunes music store from iTunes!

CURSE YOU TPG!!! *shakes fist*

Maybe I need a better way of managing my podcasts, topic idea?, so I don’t miss things.

My setup, I have anywhere for 30 – 50 unlistened episodes of podcasts waiting, right now according to iTunes about 1.9 days worth. I have a recently added playlist which has 40 items added in the last 12 weeks that have a play count of 0, this is where I live mostly, however when we puchase music it gets screwed up, so I have a backup playlist “Not Listened to Podcasts”, again 40 items, Genre “Podcast”, play count of 0.

Chime in ppl!!!! inquiring minds NEED to know…

Now the show length thing. A while back we asked listeners about length and content. We did not get much feedback. But the feedback that we did get was to let it ride, don’t worry too much. Having said that I agree with you Michael, we do try to keep it to an hour… fail mostly but we aim in that direction. We have taken your comment on board and thanks we will cut more content to get the time down (as much as it pains us!).

Thanks mate and thank you for being a loyal listener. We are always looking for innovative ways to change and become better. We are constantly a work in progress. Thanks for the suggestions on sponsors. One you suggested is on the list already

A few pieces of feedback, yeah bring back KW as much as he can bitch and complain he adds a nice touch. Also you keep pushing the envelope on length 1hr 13 min is getting out there. Any chance of cutting back to about 55 min plus the music? Finally instead of another Twitter case, setup 3 ustream.tv accounts, embed all 3 on a single page, get yourselves and IRC room and broadcast live while still recording. The ultimate geek Pirillo has been doing it. Another thought on sponsors, look at Acer, Dell, Xoxide, ATX cases?

Technically not really in “rural” Qld but it feels like it. I live on the outskirts of Toowoomba, work for a Brisbane company, and as previoulsy posted, travel around a fair bit, and no I dont sell stuff. In terms of rural we have a family property about 1 hour from here, so no cows here but we do have some there, and yes, you could say Toowoomba is a bit like a desert.

To put things into context in the area where we currently live, ADSL only became available about 12-18 months ago as far as I can work out, yet other areas within Toowoomba it has been available for 3+ years. I would like to go to ADSL2 however from what my searches tell me on whirlpool I cant get it here even though we are not that far from the centre of Toowoomba.

My current ISP starts with and O and ends with ptus. They recently sent a letter stating our internet and phone are both about to rise in price, what I consider significantly. Thus its a good time to go to 1.5.

@Nathan thanks dude, kind words. Thanks also to the guys that chimed in and tried to give Nathan a hand.

Perhaps Nathan you should give something like iTunes a go for downloading and managing your podcasts and music. It really is easy to use. The other thing is that these apps tend to manage downloads better than a direct download from a page.

Hey George how rural are you? Are we talking cows and grass or desert and sheep?

Why I ask is because there are a few fairly well known known issues with simultaneous transfers in Win XP (SP2 especially) that can be fixed really easily!

Its all to do with the TCP/IP.sys that is packaged with Win XP.

So if anyone would like to know how to supercharge their XP box (especially if you have 1.5mb broadband or above) just ask!

I doubt that it is itunes. One way to find out, just reinstal it. My problem with itunes is that often for a number of podcasts itunes does not see new updates. However, if i delete the podcast and resubscribe everything is good again for a month or so. I find it always happens the night before I have to travel and need my podcasts to keep me entertained.

Nathan will have to tell us if he has found a work around.

This is the 18th post for this week, you look like exceeding last weeks total of 19!

I have found that iTunes has been a bit flaky here in Aus lately. Today it dropped out and refused to connect to the internet at all. Maybe this happen in the middle of a download?

I occasionally have a problem with itunes not updating the podcast but the I just re-subscribe.

Nathan it may be that you are downloading too much at once, i know firefox occasionally will cut d/l’s short if you have more than 2-3 @>2mb going. Or maybe thats just my PC.

- iTunes
- Streaming from this page
- Right Clicking and “Save As” –> Download here on this page

But I cannot duplicate your problem That means that it is probably something at your end… What are you using to get the show, iTunes or direct download what??

Perhaps try another method and see what happens… let me know! Anyone else had the same problem???