Playing podcasts fast

Sounds like you've accidentally touched the repeat button.

1. Play the song.

2. On the Now Playing screen, you will see play and volume controls (bottom of the screen).

Under the album title is a scrubbing bar that indicates the time remaining of the song.

3. A small icon that looks like two circular arrows is on the left side below the scrubbing bar.

Tap this icon once to repeat the album. The icon will turn blue when repeat is activated.

4. Tap the icon again to repeat the current track. The icon will change to show the number 1 inside a blue circle.

5. Tap the icon a third time to turn off repeat. The icon will turn white when it's deactivated.

In the play area of the podcast, at the top right just below where the time remaining shows there is a number plus a cross i.e. 1x, 2x etc. press the 2x and it will go to 1/2x and then to 1x. That will set it back to normal speed. Hope this helps.

You will need to plug you nano into your computer and open iTunes. Once iTunes has recognized your iPod, click on the iPods name. There should be a page with a picture of your iPod, at the top of that page there will be a tab labeled "Podcasts," click on it. On that page there will be a check box with a drop-down menu, this is where we will change your podcast settings. The drop-down menu controls which podcasts are synced to you iPod:
All - This will sync all of your podcasts whether played or unplayed 1,3,5,10 most recent - this syncs only the (x) most recently added podcasts to your iPod All unplayed - if you have not played the podcast yet iTunes will sync them to your iPod 1,3,5,10 most recent unplayed - syncs the (x) most recently added unplayed podcasts to your iPod 1,3,5,10 least recent unplayed - syncs the (x) oldest unplayed podcasts to your iPod all new - syncs all of the newest podcasts 1,3,5,10 most recent new - syncs the (x) most recent new podcasts 1,3,5,10 least recent new - syncs the (x) least recent new podcast
those last two are a bit confusing, basically if you add a lot of podcasts you can either get the (x) newest of that set or the (x) least newest (hope that makes sense).
The second drop-down menu controls whether those setting apply to every podcast, or only the ones that you select in the menu underneath that.

With podcasts on the ipod touch you can vary the speed of play. From normal speed to 1.5 times, 2 times and half speed. Just under the play indication is a button which is probably reading 1.5x or 2x press this button and you will be able to change the speed back to 1x. Hope this helps.

Here's simple steps to cure the problem if your iPod shuffle won't play and does that green-yellow-green-yellow-green-yellow blinking thing:

1. Plug in iPod shuffle
2. You'll notice the "Podcasts" play list under your iPod volume.
3. Delete the "Podcasts" playlist.
4. ITunes will re-sync
5. Unmount the iPod Shuffle and everything should be fine.

If that doesn't work try the link below. It's for the iPod Shuffle (1st generation) restore utility.

Hope it helps.


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1238

It may have quite a few burnt circuit board/hardware failure. You can try to download a software download off the web and see if that fixes it.

Hi, What you can do is :

1) Try connecting your IPod to computer and open itunes

2) Update the software.

3) Try pressing down "Menu and Center Round button together untill you see a Apple Logo on the screen"

4) Then you can try using it and issue should be resolved.

I don't think it matters about whether there HD or not.  They just have to be in mpeg 4 format compatible with Ipod.  Do you have any software to convert the files into a different format?

Greetings,
As I understand it video podcasts will not work on the shuffle. However there are a ton of great audio podcasts that you can subscribe to free of charge from the iTunes store. Podcasts vary in length and mbs used. The podcasts I listen to are about an hour long. On a 1 gig shuffle you can fit about 26 hours of podcasts.
Let me know if you have any more questions by commenting in this thread. Also please rate me well if this helped you.
Take Care,
-WN