I haven’t used that particular scrobbler, but if it works like the others it only tracks number of plays if you listen all the way through, not the actual amount of a show you listen to. That’s great for music, because you’re more than likely going to listen to tracks over and over again.

Our Agent pays attention to how much of a show you listen to or watch, not just if you listen all the way through, because when it comes to podcasts that information is important. In a lot of instances you’ll only listen to a show once, and you’re probably more interested in a show that you listened to 70% of, when compared to a show that you only listened to 5% of.

http://scrobblepod.sourceforge.net/ - a utility for the Mac that reports to last.fm.

I like the suggestions service though. It comes in handy when I run out of shows.

You’re right. It wouldn’t show that you deleted them, the Agent doesn’t pay attention to that, but it wouldn’t add your listening habits.

Now, you might not be bother about that, but if you’re interested in getting personal recommendations then one option is to set up iTunes to keep the last x episodes, or just wait until after a sync with the Scouta Agent before deleting anything.

It’s a bit unfortunate, but there really isn’t another way given the way iTunes works.

Thanks for the feedback on how you consume podcasts though. It’s nice to know how people manage their libraries.

Rich

I download podcasts, sync them to my iPod and then once I’ve listened to them on the iPod, I delete them before syncing again. According to iTunes, I rarely listen to any of my podcasts ever, but I consumer about 30 a week on the iPod. Would this throw off the numbers? In a month it would show I’ve deleted almost 150 podcasts without listening to them.