The elusive “Podcast Tag”
Monday, January 22nd, 2007I love meta-data. I love mp3s. I love iTunes.
But I really don’t like not being able to natively edit the elusive “Podcast Tag” they’ve implemented in iTunes 7.
What ends up happening is that when you download any audio file from an RSS feed, iTunes tags the file as a podcast (Apple’s own extended id3 attribute) and keeps it in a seperate part of iTunes interface. For most users this is a great solution, and I apprecaite this UI-design for most podcasts I listen to. But there are definite times when I want these podcasted files to mingle with my music instead of podcasts. Months ago, the first week version 7 was available, I spent a night downloading some mp3 meta-data editors and got no where, other than being reaffirmed in my respect for iTunes overall design…
… but damn Apple’s occasionally overdistilled simplicity!
However tonight the mood was right, and knowing if I gave it a few months someone else in the wide web world would figure out a solution, gold has been struck. At least I think — I should to actually verify this process published on macoshints before endorsing it, but in the least here is a starting place.