Hi Carlo, No, that might be the case for songs - podcasts seem to be different. The problem was, as I suspected, missing metadata - or as I now find it is called "extended tags" which iTunes doesn't let you access/change.
Google lead me to this <http://markbowers.org/home/itunes-podcast-fix> though I didn't need his solution - further down the comments I found: > There is another way to get your downloaded MP3s into your podcasts folder, > though it is a hassle to add more than one or two. Download a good tag editor > (such as mp3tag - www.mp3tag.de/en/) which can view extended tags. Add the > following tags: TUNESPODCAST ITUNESPODCASTDESC ITUNESPODCASTID > ITUNESPODCASTURL With the following values (respectively): 1 [whatever you > want to show up as the episode name] [the url for the episode] [the url used > to subscribe to the podcast] Then drag your new files to itunes and they > should be added correctly. I had no joy in finding a suitably powerful OSX tag editor - so I had to resort to the darkside and use the suggested mp3tag running under parallels. I worked with copies of the problematic podcast and one of the good ones and used the program to examine the extended tags for both - then just generated all the missing tags - using the good file as a model. After that, back to iTunes, delete the problem podcast and add the modified copy & Voila iTunes puts it in the existing series, in the right order (based on the release date info I put in) with all the right info. So... An interesting learning experience - it worked perfectly - but I would not want to have to do it for many files!! A bit of a pity that I had to resort to windoze - but I couldn't find an OSX equivalent - plenty that let you mess with the ordinary tags but none that gets into the extended tags. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 29/7/11 4:25 PM, cm at cm200...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > I believe I was at the same point as you when I resorted to deleting the songs > (in your case podcasts) from iTunes and adding them back. It sounds dramatic > but it is quite easy to do and in my case it worked. > > Cheers, > Carlo > > > On 2011-07-29, at 15:58, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Carlo, >> >> I checked out the link but basically this covers where the separation occurs >> because of differences in metadata, eg artis, or album etc - I've already >> sorted out all the readily visible metadata. >> >> I think this is something to do with how iTunes tracks podcasts specifically >> - there is other info that is not readily visible. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> >> >> >> on 29/7/11 3:37 PM, cm at cm200...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Neil, >>> >>> I have had this happen to me also but in my case it was with a music album. >>> There may be a more elegant way to do it but in the end I deleted the songs >>> from iTunes without deleting the media itself and then added the songs back >>> to >>> the iTunes Library using the menu item "File => Add to Library..." >>> >>> For a less destructive solution, here is an Apple Knowledge Base article on >>> that very subject. >>> >>> http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468 >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carlo >>> >>> >>> On 2011-07-29, at 15:13, Neil Houghton wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm hoping one of the iTunes gurus might be able to help me here. >>>> >>>> I was thinking of stretching the grey matter by trying out some of the >>>> podcast language learning series. One of the ones I picked was "Coffee >>>> Break >>>> Spanish" >>>> >>>> I subscribed with no problem and used "get all" to download all the >>>> episodes >>>> - the only problem was that episode 1 was missing - when I checked in the >>>> iTunes store, there were 100 episodes listed but, sure enough, episode 1 >>>> was >>>> not listed. >>>> >>>> I decided to check on their website and soon found episode 1: >>>> <http://radiolingua.com/2008/10/lesson-01-coffee-break-spanish/> >>>> It was then easy to download the mp3 and import it into itunes. >>>> >>>> First off it showed up as music and missing the episode description. >>>> >>>> That was no problem - using "get info" on the track, I changed the media >>>> kind to "podcast" and copied the description from the website and pasted >>>> into the "description: page on the "video" tab (I know it's not a video - >>>> but that was where it was on the other podcasts) >>>> >>>> It was now showing up OK in podcasts but not with the rest of the series - >>>> the "Album title" was different - so I changed that to match - but it still >>>> hasn't integrated them. >>>> >>>> I have checked in the finder and iTunes has filed it in the same album >>>> folder as the rest of the podcast series and I have checked all the >>>> metadata >>>> that the "get info" reveals is all corresponding. >>>> >>>> When I look in iTunes, against podcasts, there are two series both called >>>> "Coffee Break Spanish": >>>> One just contains the imported Episode 1 >>>> The other contains all the ones directly imported via iTunes. >>>> >>>> There is obviously some more hidden metadata that is not accessible through >>>> iTunes "get info" as the main series has a release date and a series >>>> description - whereas the other (one episode) series does not. >>>> >>>> Also the subscribed podcasts have the "i" icon which brings up more info- >>>> wheresas the odd episode does not. >>>> >>>> Any clues as to how I fix this? I mean the odd podcast is working fine and >>>> showing up fine - except it has been isolated into it's own series rather >>>> than being listed with all the other episodes - which is a real pain! >>>> >>>> TIA >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Neil >>>> -- >>>> Neil R. Houghton >>>> Albany, Western Australia >>>> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >>>> Email: n...@possumology.com >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
