iPod Tip from Jon Deal

I got an email yesterday with a little tip from Jon Deal. It’s a great little tip for iTunes + iPod. Thanks Jon for the great tip and thanks for helping make the community here at iBAM truly great!

Say you are listening to a podcast on your iPod. You then plug in your iPod to your Mac. iTunes fires up and all the sync’ing you set up happens.

But do this:

  • Scroll to the Podcast you were listening to on the iPod.
  • Highlight it.
  • Press play.

iTunes begins playing the song at the SAME SPOT where your iPod left off playing the podcast. It’s like magic! Or something. I don’t have a Windows box to test this on, but it totally works on a Mac. It’s just one of those little touches that add to up to making the Mac a better user experience. Though it is a shame that it doesn’t work with songs.

Any other juicy tidbits? Please share.

  • I should probably clarify that just a bit:

    "In iTunes, scroll to the Podcast you were listening to on the iPod"

    I think this little "trick" also works with audio books as well.
  • Awesome tip Jon. I wasn't sure if iTunes kept track of where you were, so I'd always finish listening to the current podcast before I synced it again.
  • doog
    You can do that with a music file, too, if you go to "Get Info", "Options" page, and select "remember playback position". Because that, of course, is the setting in podcasts and audiobooks that allows this feature.
  • Reboot your ipod, and when you see the apple logo, click & hold "previous" + "Select" buttons. this will bring you to diagnostic mode.

    btw, an interactive display of some useful ipod commands: http://urltea.com/4ha
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