{"id":94,"date":"2008-10-17T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T17:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=94"},"modified":"2008-10-18T23:14:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T06:14:45","slug":"reverse-the-flow-of-time-on-your-ipod-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Reverse the Flow of Time on your iPod Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=floatRight width=150 src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31Vm2nZ49wL._SL500_AA280_.jpg\">I&#8217;ve been enjoying a variety of podcasts on my iPod Shuffle, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cast-on.com\/\">knitting<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandratsingloh.com\/\">Sandra Tsing Loh<\/a> to Italian language lessons.  One thing that&#8217;s been driving me batty is that when I drop new podcasts onto the iPod, they end up in reverse chronological order (newest first), which is almost always not the order I want them in.  Any changes I make to the order (sorting by column or moving podcasts around) are mysteriously lost when I undock the iPod.  To judge from the Web, I&#8217;m not the only one with this vexation.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/profile.jspa?userID=218588\">Stephen Mielnicki<\/a> posted the solution (buried in <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread.jspa?threadID=175367&#038;tstart=333\">this thread<\/a>): go into your Podcasts (<b>not<\/b> on the iPod) and click the &#8220;Release Date&#8221; column to order them in ascending order, rather than the default descending order.  This order will propagate to the iPod, even for podcasts you previously copied over.  Useful to know&#8212;but unintuitive; the obvious metaphor for the iPod is to treat it like another playlist, and in this case it definitely doesn&#8217;t behave like one.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I learned about the iPod Shuffle while googling is that when you put it in &#8220;random play&#8221; mode, it deliberately skips over podcasts and audio books.  I&#8217;d noticed that it never played these things, but figured it was just because they were such a small fraction of the iPod&#8217;s contents and therefore had a low probability of being chosen.  But this is a nice feature.  (Of course, it seems to achieve it merely by looking at file extensions.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been enjoying a variety of podcasts on my iPod Shuffle, from knitting to Sandra Tsing Loh to Italian language lessons. One thing that&#8217;s been driving me batty is that when I drop new podcasts onto the iPod, they end up in reverse chronological order (newest first), which is almost always not the order I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}