Shuffle - "solution" to the podcast problem

To make sure that podcasts will be loaded to your Shuffle, run the following Apple script before you synchronise. (Open the application Script Editor - paste the script below as a new script - save as application, which you can launch manually.)

tell application "iTunes"
 --first line slightly silly, as the updates wont be processed before the following steps, but one can as well do it now as never.
 updateAllPodcasts
 set tracktotal to count of tracks in playlist "A List of Recent unheard"
 repeat with aFile from 1 to tracktotal
  set shufflable of track aFile of playlist "A List of Recent unheard" to true  
 end repeat 
end tell

To see more about the problem check my previous posts here, here and here.

A similar script can be found at macosxhints.