Hm, don't know how to do that, and a quick Google search has not been helpful. I'll keep looking into it.

And welcome to the forums!

Oho. That I can do, but not retroactively, naturally. Good note.

I don't have the problem of consecutive podcasts not playing automatically, but I listen on my iPod, which might follow different rules from iTunes. I also synchronize only the unheard ones, which might also affect how they're played.

However, on iTunes, you could try adding the podcast you want to listen to to your On-the-Go playlist, and playing that. Or even, set up a Smart Playlist that contains unheard podcasts (play count is 0), and see if that will just play through them all.

On an iPod sure, they do play automatically.  As for the rest of my podcasts, I only sync a couple others to my device, and then only the unheard ones.  A playlist would work, but for DIF I like to have every episode on my device, and I'm an iTunes organization fanatic (ask CloeZ about the four days I spent fixing her library); for me it just makes more sense to put them in with my music, but as we say so often, your mileage may vary.

Oh, and, comma.

This is one of the reasons iTunes is merely the least-worst of several bad choices for podcast downloading. It regards all audio as being music—unless it is a "podcast", in which case it can suck ass and die, for all iTunes cares. That's why there's no support for increasing play speed in iTunes or iPods or for deleting audio files on iPods. (Correct me if I'm wrong about that.)

Altho, to be fair, Audible also does not support faster playback speeds, so enjoy your 6 hour audio book in exactly 6 hours like a normal person, punk.

/bitter

Am I the only one who listens to podcasts and audio books at 120 to 140%? Do I have some absurdly high listening comprehension rate or something?