Actually, I've found that most of the podcasts I subscribe to *don't* use "podcast" as the genre. Which, really, is good, because although Clayborne (http://clayborne.blogspot.com/) and Staccato (http://staccatomusic.org/) may both be podcasts, they are worlds apart in genre.
I do keep a kind of inbox for my podcasts, though. iPodder automatically makes static playlists for each of your subscriptions. I add each of these to a smart playlist called All Podcasts (Playlist is "podcast name"), then I created a smart playlist called New podcasts, and set it up like this:
Match ALL:
Playlist is "All Podcasts"
Date added is in the last 2 days
Vertigo: I use PlayPod to download my podcasts... it allows me to specify the genre when downloading podcasts. I used to use iPodderX and it allowed me to do the same.
kurly: This is a question relating to dynamic updating of SPL’s using the following criteria (as an example):
•Grouping Contains: .p/a.
•Grouping Contains: ...
Actually, I've found that most of the podcasts I subscribe to *don't* use "podcast" as the genre. Which, really, is good, because although Clayborne (http://clayborne.blogspot.com/) and Staccato (http://staccatomusic.org/) may both be podcasts, they are worlds apart in genre.
I do keep a kind of inbox for my podcasts, though. iPodder automatically makes static playlists for each of your subscriptions. I add each of these to a smart playlist called All Podcasts (Playlist is "podcast name"), then I created a smart playlist called New podcasts, and set it up like this:
Match ALL:
Playlist is "All Podcasts"
Date added is in the last 2 days