Podcast tracks in iTunes 4.9 do not seem to be easily manageable in regular playlists or smart playlists. The AppleScript dictionary for iTunes has been extended with a track property that tells iTunes that a track is a podcast. In that case it handles the track differently. (Just as it already has ‘Tracks’ (URLs) for internet radio stations.) I wanted to see if I could change a track from podcast to normal by changing this property. Then I read this post on Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes that says it’s a read-only property:
New Track Property, Podcast: “New in iTunes 4.9, a new track property called podcast. As you may imagine, this is a read-only boolean that will be true for a podcast track, and false if otherwise.”
Maybe it is still possible to write a script that traverses the list of podcasts, copies their actual file location and adds the track again as a regular track?
Who volunteers?
(I’ll be at a conference for a week.)
Comments
Author: Matt Schinckel
Date: 2006-02-07 12:46:26
Chad: see http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/62/a-home-for-wayward-podcasts
Author: President Leechman
Date: 2006-01-18 22:47:35
Alas, that attribute is attached to the file. I pulled all my podcasts out of iTunes, deleted the originals, and then tried to put them back in, and they went right back into the podcast folder.
Author: Tim Madden
Date: 2005-07-21 06:58:07
Hi, do you know if the airtunes part of itunes is applescriptable yet? I want ot run an applescrip to change the room my music plays in.thanks
Author: Mat
Date: 2006-04-04 19:38:51
For what it’s worth, I did notice that there is also a Podcast tag sitting in the iTunes library XML…
Author: Chad
Date: 2005-07-12 01:04:33
I’m looking to go the other direction; I have a series of regular shows recorded from a net stream through AHPro, and I’d love to be able to flag them as podcasts. In a way, they are, only without that oh so useful RSS feed, and I’d like to be able to use iTunes grouping and auto-deletion features.