Hi Jane, I don't know the answer to your question about whether editing the Album and track information would affect iTunes' tracking of the podcast feed. I think that adding the track information has no effect, and my guess is that changing the album info might not affect the tracking, but I don't know. I'd experiment by trying to make these changes on another feed or subscription first. The Album change would not be permanent for new podcast episodes, in any case. There are two files used for the iTunes database information. The one that iTunes uses is in binary format, and can't be used by other programs or AppleScripts. The xml file is the one that you work with when you make editing changes and can read, and it contains most of the information in the binary file. I don't think that iTunes checks about changes in your podcasts unless you force a refresh of the podcast feeds, so any old podcast episodes you've already downloaded should not be updated.
What happens is that when you subscribe to podcasts through iTunes, it adds information about the source podcast feed URL, date of download, and other metadata to its database. For podcasts in the iTunes Store (not ones that you add through URL), the authors provide specific information for the upload, and that determines the album name. Are these some of your Celtic music podcasts that you subscribed to originally through a different feed? I've changed album names by hand for some podcasts, but not ones with several hundred episodes all currently on the active feed. (The BBC Radio 4 "In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg" series changed their name format a while ago). I think you'd have to experiment to be sure. My guess is that iTunes would still keep track of what you had downloaded, but you'd have to manually update new entries. However, I'd hate to be wrong on the status of several hundred episodes! Cheers, Esther On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:26, Jane wrote: > I have a podcast with over 1,000 files in it. None have track numbers in > front of them, though. If I go through and add track numbers and album info, > will that affect the feed? > > I have another podcast with almost 500 episodes, all of those episodes are in > different albums by show. Can I take those, put them all into the same > album, and relabel the tracks, and have it sort better? > > Jane -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
