At 4:00 AM -0600 12/1/2008, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Nov 30, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Dan wrote: > > From a podcast, I have some nice mp3 tracks. How do I move them from >> the podcast category to the regular Music area? I don't when to get >> lost, when I dump the podcast. >> >> I tried doing an "add" on the mp3 file itself, after removing it from > > the podcast, but it Knew. So it reappeared in the podcast....
Found it. There are ID tags within the file that make it smell podcastish. I used musorg.app to delete those fields, then the tracks added as music to iTunes. >These types are: .mp3, .m4a, and .m4b. I believe that normal music >is .mp3, while podcasts are .m4a, and audiobooks are .m4b. MP3 is MPEG-1 Layer 3. M4A is MPEG-4 AAC. M4B is MPEG-4 AAC, used by Apple to mean Audiobook. (as far as I can tell ?so far? there is no encoding diff between m4a and m4b). >One of the big differences in these file types is how they handle a "Stop" >command. The .mp3 will stop normally, and upon next play start at the >beginning of the track. I believe both the .m4a & .m4b work under the >assumption that the track is only to be listened to once, and if you >use a "stop" command, upon the next launch they will resume at exactly >the same point you previously stopped at. This is really handy for >both of these file types. This isn't a function of file type (codec/format). On it's face, it's music vs audiobook classification default in iTunes. Music tracks always start at the beginning. iTunes keeps track of where you were in Audiobook tracks. Really, what's happening is that there's a flag (see the track's get info window) you can set that tells iTunes to remember or not. >I don't believe there is an easy way to remove DRM from tracks on Macs I guess Apple's "legit method" is to burn the tracks to a normal (AIFF) audio CD then to rip it back in. Blech. That has the potential of loosing quality. Yet-another reason to stay away from DRM garbage. (I'll gander at Audio Hijack Pro shortly; looks interesting!) Right now, I'm going nutz adding stuff to my library. Guess I'm starting to trust iTunes more... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
