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Make iTunes treat an MP3 podcast as a regular MP3
Native podcast support came in 4.9, right? I think something has changed in iTunes 5. I've been subscribing to the podcast "Free Radio Sub Pop" (from Sub Pop Records), but recently (I think since upgrading to iTunes 5), I can't copy/move songs from my Podcasts folder into another music folder and get the Podcasts playlist to "forget" about them.
Make iTunes treat an MP3 podcast as a regular MP3
A couple more things. While Doug's AppleScript can get the (Long) Description, it doesn't appear to be able to set it (well, on my iTunes on the latest Sub Pop song, from the Constantines).
I used id3v2 to check the tags, and the (Long) Description was listed as the "TT3" tag: id3v2 tag info for Love In Fear.mp3: TEN (Encoded by): iTunes v4.9.0.17 COM (Comments): (iTunNORM)[eng]: 00000F4A 00000573 0000AC2F 00003AA5 000340F5 00001BA7 0000864D 0000840F 0002D639 00034EF0 COM (Comments): (iTunes_CDDB_IDs)[eng]: 10+284448EC1C7BE892CF128E8BC4AC0930+5872480 TRK (Track number/Position in set): 3/10 TYE (Year): 2005 TDR (): frame PCS (): frame TT3 (Subtitle/Description refinement): 3:55, from Tournament of Hearts by The Constantines TDS (): frame TID (): frame WFD (): frame TCO (Content type): Alternative & Punk (255) TT2 (Title/songname/content description): Love In Fear TP1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): The ConstantinesBut trying to set that tag ("--TT3") w/ id3v2 caused an error (unknown tag). Setting the TIT3 tag ("--TIT3") to any value caused the tags to be significantly shuffled around (mixing ID3v1 and ID3v2)! id3v1 tag info for Love In Fear.mp3: Title : Love In Fear Artist: The Constantines Album : Year: 2005, Genre: Unknown (255) Comment: 00000F4A 00000573 0000AC2F Track: 3 id3v2 tag info for Love In Fear.mp3: TENC (Encoded by): iTunes v4.9.0.17 COMM (Comments): (iTunNORM)[eng]: 00000F4A 00000573 0000AC2F 00003AA5 000340F5 00001BA7 0000864D 0000840F 0002D639 00034EF0 COMM (Comments): (iTunes_CDDB_IDs)[eng]: 10+284448EC1C7BE892CF128E8BC4AC0930+5872480 TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 3/10 TYER (Year): 2005So, this "fixes" my problem, but I don't quite understand how those tags worked, nor how iTunes could not be fooled into forgetting about a song originally downloaded as a Podcast. And, I need to go back and re-tag Artists, Title, etc. to those files. Not a good solution... Next time I get a new Podcast file, I'm going to play w/ iTunes "Convert ID3 Tags" contextual/menu item. I'm very curious to hear any other takes on all this!
Make iTunes treat an MP3 podcast as a regular MP3
I'm not sure anyone else besides Doug and I are still reading this hint :-), but here's one more tip.
Make iTunes treat an MP3 podcast as a regular MP3
Thanks for checking out the scripts (Enter Category Text for Selected, Enter Description Text for Selected, and Enter Long Description Text for Selected). They merely set those tags, by the way.
There is another read-only track property called podcast, introduced in iTune 5.0, which I suspect is causing the trouble. This prop takes a boolean, and cannot be altered (at least via AppleScript). I'm not exactly sure who sets this, but perhaps your d/l'd 'casts are produced using Apple's new podcast XML namespaces, and iTunes sees this and sets podcast accordingly. ---
Make iTunes treat an MP3 podcast as a regular MP3
Well, I took your script and modified to display the current tag value before modifying. That's how I knew the data was really in (long) description. However, the script couldn't modify the tags (for me). Every time I re-ran it, my debug "display dialog" still showed the same values. id3v2 confirmed that there were no changes.
But, using id3v2 to set one tag seemed to blow away most of the ID3V2 tags (leaving the ID3V1 tags). This removed the podcast flag somehow, and I just had re-tag the the file. Might be easier to just d/l the MP3s from Sub Pop each week! I appreciate knowing about the "podcast" boolean property in AppleScript. (I hadn't looked at iTunes 5's Dictionary yet!) Maybe someone will find a way to set that through some other means...
Make iTunes treat an MP3 podcast as a regular MP3
NP, hypert. |
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