I listen to lots of podcasts on my iPod.  I’m geeky that way. I spend lots of time in my car while driving to and from work and I find that podcasts really eat up time way faster than music ever does.  And I get to learn something too, so that’s always good.

I also listen to music, but I usually just hit the shuffle button or create a quick Genius playlist, so this doesn’t really impact me there.  Back to podcasts…  When I listen to a podcast, or a playlist full of podcasts, I rarely get through all of one episode before arriving at my destination, and I basically never get through an entire playlist.  If I hit pause when I get out of the car, and then don’t use my iPod until I get back in the car then I can simply wake it up, hit play, and roll on.  But if I change to a different playlist, which of course I do because nobody else wants to listen to my podcasts, then I lose my place in my previous playlist.

Which brings me to my point.  Why doesn’t hitting pause while playing media from a playlist get treated as a “playlist pause” rather than as a “file pause”?  Essentially I want my iPod to remember exactly where I was in my playlist and just start up from there the next time I use that playlist.  Doesn’t seem like rocket science to me.  Maybe there’s an app for that?

Anyone have any good ideas to make this work?  Apple, are you listening?

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