Fix Your iPod Shuffle for Podcasts

Two things are probably the greatest advances in sporting in the last decade:

The iPod Shuffle is incredibly small, light, and energy efficient. Podcasts are Internet radio shows about every topic under the sun. Put the two together and you can listen to a show about biking while enjoying a great bouldering session, or vice versa.

Of course, something so great can not go unscathed. Apple's iTunes decided to rain on the podcast parade by making them unloadable to your Shuffle by default. You have to manually OK them every time instead. Fail!

Here is a script you can run to fix this. Take the text below, paste it into notepad, save it as a .js extention, and you are good to go. You can drag it into your start menu for easy finding.  Make sure you replace the playlist name in the first line with your own.

Just run it before uploading your Podcast playlist to your shuffle and it will fix everything. Smart!

Tha Code - 

var playlist_name = "_UnplayedPodcasts";

var iTunes = WScript.CreateObject("iTunes.Application");

var sources = iTunes.Sources;

var playlists = sources.ItemByName("Library").Playlists;

var playlist = playlists.ItemByName(playlist_name);

var tracks = playlist.Tracks;

for (i = 1; i <= tracks.Count; i++) {

    tracks.Item(i).ExcludeFromShuffle = false;

}