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Update subscriptions which have expired by virtue of being ignored for five or more days

Update expired podcasts, delete "dead" tracks, create "Two-Fer" and "Three-Fer" playlists, gather tracks without artwork and much more with TrackSift.
iTunes will stop updating a podcast if you have not listened to at least one of its episodes in five days. This script will batch-update every podcast subscription so you don't have to manually update each one individually.

I have posted instructions on how to create a launchd agent to run this script automatically and invisibly in the background to ensure that your Podcasts are always updated.

    Latest version:
  • Exits if iTunes isn't running when launched
    Info:
  • short url: http://dougscripts.com/423
  • category: Controlling iTunes
  • build type: Bundle (universal binary)
  • latest version posted: December 12, 2011
  • latest version downloads: 611 | total downloads: 14748
  • download size: 223.4K
 
 

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