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I’ve considered setting up a cron job to change select podcasts in iTunes to music so they sync with the watch. No position sync or fast forward but enough for a run.

Having spent 24 hours with the cellular watch and taken two runs without the iPhone, this is now a near necessity.

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It's pretty sad that such a useful and obvious UX needs to be hacked up

That would be awesome if you wanted to share it!

I've got it working with a node script to change the id3 tag, and re-add to itunes, that triggers a smart playlist called "Watch Podcasts" in the Music section.

Then the node script triggers AppleScript to Update iCloud Library.

The "Watch Podcasts" smart playlist is added in iPhone Watch app under Music.

Now when the watch is charging any of those podcasts are synced.

Don't have a clean way to share (and selecting podcasts to transfer is manual on the Mac).

If there's interest I may expand on utility and share

Just wanted to throw another name down for interest in this script! Would be an awesome feature

Here it is:

https://github.com/kylewill/apple-watch-podcast-sync

I really did hack it together before a run and am very embarrassed by the code. pull requests welcome :)

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