...podcasts that I started playing? It used to be that once the little blue dot disappeared, that podcast would be deleted on the next sync. Now you have to play the podcast all the way until the end to count it as "played"! I have tons of podcasts that I go through and that was the easiest way to sort through them, was to listen to a few seconds and move on to the next. I knew that it would be deleted on the next sync since the blue dot was gone. I'm not sure if it's new iTunes software update or my newer iPod doing this.