Well I have to say that I am very annoyed and disappointed in iTunes.

Let me explain why this is so:

The job I have requires me to spend many hours a day in a car on the road in areas where there is really bad radio reception and since I don’t want to fork out the money for satellite radio I have been using my iPod. I download and listen to a variety of podcasts (mostly poker related) and use this to keep me company and hopefully increase my knowledge base while I am driving. Here is where my annoyance/disappointment comes in, I fairly regularly will check iTunes for new podcasts that I might be interested in. Unfortunately it seems that iTunes doesn’t ever clear out the backlog of podcasts that have been posted in the past but aren’t being updated anymore. It is very frustrating to me at least that I have to sift through the ton of orphaned podcasts that seem to live there. I am not a programmer, and I have very limited knowledge of database functions/issues but it seems to me that the folks at iTunes should be able to write some sort of monitoring program to see how long it’s been since a podcast was last updated. If it’s been more than a year, then it’s time for this thing to go away. I realize this may not mean much/anything to anyone else, but I doubt I am the only one in the world that feels this way. It can’t be that tough to do something like this, even if they couldn’t write a program to do this (which I doubt seriously) then as a last result it seems that they could have some people do it by hand (yes I know it would be hugely time consuming, but it could be done by people that were very low on the ladder so they weren’t wasting higher paid people on it).

I know that there are some who would say I’m just lazy and that it’s not that tough to sort through the orphaned podcasts, or that there is some value to having them still there. I disagree and say that if you’re providing a service like this, it’s your responsibility to ensure the best experience for the customer possible and the current situation isn’t the best for anyone. Of course I also blame the people that posted the podcasts since they are the ones that abandoned them. If your going to start a podcast and post it on iTunes then I feel it’s your responsibility to keep it up to date, and if your not going to post anymore then either remove it yourself or post one final entry saying that it isn’t being updated anymore.

I could probably go on about this some more, but what would the point be???? So instead I will say that I am very pumped to know that the WSOP (World Series of Poker) started last week, which means it won’t be long until they start broadcasting the events from this year. Unfortunately they are supposedly only broadcasting 3 events this year, my comments on that will be coming soon.

More later…..

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