iTunes inconsistency? No way!
I've been using iTunes 4.9 for a while now but just realized that iTunes decides when podcasts are marked as played and when songs are marked as played are completely different times. Songs are marked as played at the end of the song. They're removed from an "Unplayed" Smart Playlist and their play count is incremented at that time. Podcasts, on the other hand, are marked as played as soon as you start playing them. They don't have play counts, but the blue bullet next to each individual podcast disappears as soon as I start playing them.
I normally don't care about these small inconsistencies, but this one affects me, so I care :) See, podcast titles are long and the iPod screen won't display the whole title, so I have to play them to find out what episode I'm actually listening to. This causes issues when I sync only unplayed episodes to my iPod or when I want to listen to the oldest unplayed episode on iTunes. Hopefully Apple will fix this in 4.9.x or iTunes 5, but I'm sure it's not their #1 priority. It would be nice though.
