[iTunes] I hate iTunes 8

[Ken Stevens]

I don't know how you have most of your podcast settings.  Most of mine  
are set to "Download the most recent one".  I just tried something.  I  
went into iTunes
settings and changed the drop down menu to "do nothing"  I then  
changed my clock and did a refresh.  Two podcasts that were set to  
"download all" were downloaded,
but not the others.  I then changed the clock back and changed the  
settings back to "Download the most recent."  I successfully changed  
the iTunes time without
downloading a whole bunch of podcasts.

An alternative is to sleep until 5:30 am or so and then do the time  
change trick back to 3 am, its not much but its an extra 2 and half  
hours sleep.  When I had DirectTV
for my internet access the "golden time" was more generous,  something  
like 11pm - 6 am.

Make sure you leave iTunes running when you go to bed.  iTunes will  
not start itself to download podcasts.  Does your computer go into  
standby mode after a time of inactivity?
I don't know if iTunes can bring the PC out of standby mode.

How did the library situation resolve?

Ken


On Jan 8, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Becca wrote:

> the only problem with changing the time on my computer to set the  
> downloads is that I have to do the first download outside the golden  
> time of 3-6 am... and that might be enough to put me into 'fair use'  
> penalty for the next 24 hours or so. It's a more elegant solution  
> than staying up all night, however, if I'm willing to pay that price  
> for it.
>
> -becca
>
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