Good find Neil! Cheers, Carlo
On 2011-07-29, at 20:44, Neil Houghton wrote: > > 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> > -- 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>
