Easy Reader

I have spent the last four months (at least) trying to rate the 16,000+ songs I have in iTunes at present and found it really annoying that I couldn’t provide a rating to podcasts from my iPod to get them out of my smart playlist of unrated material. Eventually, I stumbled upon this little trick to make it work (and perhaps someone else has already written on this—I didn’t bother looking). I have the 4G U2 Edition, but I assume this works on all clickwheel iPod varients (and possibly even the older models).

1. While listening to a podcast you want to rate, pause it;
2. Click to advance to the next track;
3. Provided that is a song (and not another podcast), click to the rating screen;
4. Quickly hit the back button until you are on the hidden rating screen for the podcast;
5. Provide your rating (quickly) and then hit pause again to resume playing the podcast (which will resume where you left off).

It’s a wierd little hack, but it works.

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