Maybe the best way to automate this is to write your own RSS-parsing script. Juice and Doppler - can run an external program after a download completes, but the external program is likely on its own for finding the right date to use. HiDownload - can add a datestamp, but it's b), and not configurable beyond do-add/don't-add. Both dates match, and it's easier to grab the RSS posting date.Īny software that claims to do what you want automatically will probably a) use the RSS posting's pubDate attribute, or b) use the current date. Don't Tell Me podcast - date in the posting, date in the tags, but it's not in TYER or TDRC, it's in TALB and TIT2 tags like this: '0911318: NPR: 11-14-2009 Wait Wait. They Might Be Giants podcast - date in the posting, no other dates available. StackOverflow podcast - release date in the filename, though it differs from the posting date. Here's some example feeds to examine for variations on how a feed might look: To do what you want, you'd need to tailor a script for each podcast you're interested in grabbing, and occasionally you might need to tweak that script for changes in the podcast's feed. There's no sane across-the-board way to do this to every podcast you're interested in, because there's no standard method for releasing podcasts. The file creation time on my local disk isn't a reliable indicator because sometimes I download a few days worth of content at one time, and the files don't necessarily get downloaded in chronological order. I would switch from iTunes to something else if that would solve my problem. Is there some way to get the release date into the filename automatically? If so, I could automate or possibly skip the file renaming step. What I do now is manually rename the files, adding the date in YYYYMMDD format to the start of each filename so that an alphabetical listing of files will correspond to their chronological order when I listen to them later in PocketTunes on my Palm Centro. I currently use iTunes on Windows XP to download the files. What I really want is to play the files chronologically by release date. When I copy the directory of accumulated mp3 files into my mp3 player, the files play in alphabetical order. I subscribe to several podcasts where the filenames of the downloaded mp3 files have no particular pattern to them.

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