App to remove "is a podcast" ID3 tag in mp3 files?

[Amanda Morton]

Help, this is a very strange phenomenon I've encountered:

I'm subscribed to the Aurgasm podcast (http://aurgasm.us/) and there are a few song mp3s from that podcast that I really like.

So, I'd like to remove them from the "Podcast" section inside iTunes (because I go there for new casts and I don't want to see those songs there for the next 5 years), but I'd like to have those songs in my regular iTunes collection.

So, I moved the mp3 files outside iTunes, deleted the entire aurgasm podcast and every file, and then re-imported those innocent mp3-files again into iTunes, but guess what: iTunes imported those files alright, but it also re-created a new aurgasm podcast inside the "Podcast" source pane (!) and re-added those files back to this podcast. Somehow iTunes remembered that those files are podcasts. And inside the app, there is no way to remove songs from the podcast section while leaving them as a normal song.

So I tried out 5 apps that can edit ID3 tags (
MP3 Rage 5.8.4
ID3Mod_V43.dmg
Interchange-O-Mat 1.0
Taggerwocky v1.2 X ƒ
MP3 ID3X 3.0.3),
and guess what, none of those editors where able to detect and remove the "podcast" flag from the songs. MP3 Rage could remove all tags outright and then the songs would show up correctly (not as podcasts), but I don't want to re-enter all my data.

So my question is this: is there an app that can remove the "is a podcast" ID3 tag in mp3 files?

Thanks for your help!

[Amanda Morton]

Ok, found a solution: remove ID3v2 tags, add ID3v1 tags. I guess the v1 standard is non-extensible and the v2 standard is, and Apple used non-official extended tags in the v2 standard to add their own metadata (with no way to edit them, mind you). If you convert the mp3s to v1, that additional metadata is removed and presto, you've got fresh files with no connection to the original podcast.

This can be achieved, for example, with Media Rage 2.3's function "QuickEdit (Multiple Files)": set "ID3v2" to "None" and "ID3v1" to "ID3v1.0", all your files, click "Save and next" a few times and you're done.

Now, how somebody with the same problem and less of a computer geek could solve that problem is left open. Obviously, computing is still too difficult for the masses (who might have the same problem), and Apple is not really helping completely to make it better.

Additionally, so many ID3 taggers NOT A SINGLE PRODUCT that really allows one to edit all the tags of an extensible tag framework. What's wrong with all those programmers? Truly, incredibly stupid. (/rant off).

[timmcneely]

Ok, found a solution: remove ID3v2 tags, add ID3v1 tags. I guess the v1 standard is non-extensible and the v2 standard is, and Apple used non-official extended tags in the v2 standard to add their own metadata (with no way to edit them, mind you). If you convert the mp3s to v1, that additional metadata is removed and presto, you've got fresh files with no connection to the original podcast.

This can be achieved, for example, with Media Rage 2.3's function "QuickEdit (Multiple Files)": set "ID3v2" to "None" and "ID3v1" to "ID3v1.0", all your files, click "Save and next" a few times and you're done.

Now, how somebody with the same problem and less of a computer geek could solve that problem is left open. Obviously, computing is still too difficult for the masses (who might have the same problem), and Apple is not really helping completely to make it better.

Additionally, so many ID3 taggers NOT A SINGLE PRODUCT that really allows one to edit all the tags of an extensible tag framework. What's wrong with all those programmers? Truly, incredibly stupid. (/rant off).


Are you still having the same trouble? Have you found a way to fix this problem? It's been driving me nuts!

[Amanda Morton]

Are you still having the same trouble? Have you found a way to fix this problem? It's been driving me nuts!

As I said:Ok, found a solution.
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This can be achieved, for example, with Media Rage 2.3's function "QuickEdit (Multiple Files)": set "ID3v2" to "None" and "ID3v1" to "ID3v1.0", all your files, click "Save and next" a few times and you're done.


Cheers! :-)