Setting aside the religious arguments for or against the merits of the Zune...
I'm subscribed to a bunch of podcasts in my Zune software. One of them (out of about a dozen I'm subscribed to) never seems to purge their oldest entries.
It seems that there's a limit of 512 unique entries for a given podcast. Since reaching this number of entries, the Zune software hasn't downloaded new updates for that podcast (others are still working fine). I can navigate directly to the podcast's URL (an RSS feed) and see newer entries, but the Zune software simply isn't downloading them. Nothing's changed about the RSS feed--everything's formatted the same between the last few podcasts I *did* manage to download, and those that don't.
I've tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, deleting everything in the folder where the podcasts are getting downloaded, etc...nothing helps. It's not like I can truncate the RSS feed myself either.
Google's coming up empty, and I'm not sure what to do next. Of course I can download podcasts from the RSS feed and listen to them on my computer (or transfer them to the Zune as "regular" MP3s, I suppose) but then I don't get the benefit of having the Zune automatically marking everything as played, automatically removing played entries, etc.
As an aside, a newer version of the Zune software was pushed out a few days ago (much to my surprise), but it doesn't seem to fix this. This shouldn't be related though, as the problem was present before the update.
Thoughts or suggestions (again, avoiding the religious arguments...)
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Setting aside the religious arguments for or against the merits of the Zune...
I'm subscribed to a bunch of podcasts in my Zune software. One of them (out of about a dozen I'm subscribed to) never seems to purge their oldest entries.
It seems that there's a limit of 512 unique entries for a given podcast. Since reaching this number of entries, the Zune software hasn't downloaded new updates for that podcast (others are still working fine). I can navigate directly to the podcast's URL (an RSS feed) and see newer entries, but the Zune software simply isn't downloading them. Nothing's changed about the RSS feed--everything's formatted the same between the last few podcasts I *did* manage to download, and those that don't.
I've tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, deleting everything in the folder where the podcasts are getting downloaded, etc...nothing helps. It's not like I can truncate the RSS feed myself either.
Google's coming up empty, and I'm not sure what to do next. Of course I can download podcasts from the RSS feed and listen to them on my computer (or transfer them to the Zune as "regular" MP3s, I suppose) but then I don't get the benefit of having the Zune automatically marking everything as played, automatically removing played entries, etc.
As an aside, a newer version of the Zune software was pushed out a few days ago (much to my surprise), but it doesn't seem to fix this. This shouldn't be related though, as the problem was present before the update.
Thoughts or suggestions (again, avoiding the religious arguments...)
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