Subscribing to Music Podcasts Through iTunes

Another Peter Welling original--the post needed some color.

I subscribe to a few music podcasts in iTunes: Diplo's mad decent worldwide radio, KEXP's Song of the Day, MPR: The Current Song of the Day, and KCRW's Top Tune. I try and listen to each song--deleting the ones I don't like (I hate clutter even on my iPod) and giving the ones I do like a rating. The thing I don't like about music podcasts in iTunes is that they never appear in the Music section--they are relegated to life as a podcast even when you change the genre to music.

In the past I had tried moving the files out of their podcast directory in the iTunes folder and then re-importing them into iTunes. iTunes always put them back in the podcast directory. Argh! After a little Googling this morning, I found a reasonable fix that is not too time consuming since the steps can be done to multiple songs at one time. (I never knew that you could drag and drop a directory of songs into iTunes--such a PC girl I was/am.)

Hope this helps some of you out there, and if anyone can recommend more podcasts, do share.

"A better suggestion I think. 1. Select the podcasts you wish to convert to normal audiio files.
2. Go to the advanced menu, select convert ID3 tags.
3. Change the ID3 tags to version 1.0.
4. Drag the podcasts out to a folder
5. Delete the originals from iTunes
6. Drag the files back in to iTunes (I recommend using a playlist)
7. Change the ID3 tags back to the highest version available.
8. Fix any missing tags."
posted by Jeremy on http://opensoul.org