iPod question: Why did my podcasts spontaneously switch categories?

[west3man]

My podcasts used to be under (you guessed it) "podcasts." Now, for some reason, the new ones I've downloaded are under "podcasts" and the others are just mixed in with my songs under a podcast category that has a music icon in iTunes (which would be tolerable if they also showed up in the podcast section of my iPod).

I hope that made sense to someone out there. What the frig is going on and how can I get'em all back under the "podcast" category?

Thanks, in advance.

[west3man]

Just bumpin' in the hopes that someone will have an idea to share.

[Brandon Hanvey]

Click on the song(s) go to File:Get Info.

Click on the Info button. Near the bottom should be Genre. Set it to Podcast.

[west3man]

Click on the song(s) go to File:Get Info.

Click on the Info button. Near the bottom should be Genre. Set it to Podcast.
All of them are already set to podcast, at least according to the column info (which is how I was able to find them and group them together in the song section). They just don't wanna show up in (what I now realize is) the first podcast section.

Ain't that a kick?

I've found that if I go deeper into the song category and then go to genre, within that, there's a podcast genre. When I click on it, that's when the rogue podcasts appear (this is on the iPod). Of course, the newly-downloaded ones stay where I wanted them all to be. (I shouldn't say "of course," since the others seem to have spontaneously packed up and moved down the street.)

[Drew Van T.]

Maybe your most recent iTunes update screwed with the podcasts somehow. You could always reinstall it.

[west3man]

Maybe your most recent iTunes update screwed with the podcasts somehow. You could always reinstall it.
I've never updated it.
Thanks for the suggestion, though.

I'm so new to all of this that I've hesitated to do any updates or much of anything that takes away a drop of my control. I even have stuff set for manual load/update so that I don't lose a bunch of crap out of the blue.

[west3man]

The only "unusual" thing I remember doing since my last podcast transfer (to the iPod) was a HUGE transfer of songs... which I did on a different computer than I usually load my podcasts from.

In fact, I hadn't used that computer to upload iPod content since I started scooping up podcasts. Dunno what would be different about the settings, but maybe they are different versions or something.

[Drew Van T.]

The only "unusual" thing I remember doing since my last podcast transfer (to the iPod) was a HUGE transfer of songs... which I did on a different computer than I usually load my podcasts from.

That's probably it. Part of the iPod's concept is to discourage hooking it up to multiple computers and multiple iTunes. Which is not to say that it can't or shouldn't be done - usually it works fine - but it might have confused things, especially using different versions of iTunes.

If the problem doesn't go away, re-upload everything to the iPod, or even reformat the whole thing, on the main computer.

[west3man]

Is it possible to transfer a bunch of now-unavailble online podcasts to a different computer?

[west3man]

Man, that's a lotta frickin' songs to reload. Maybe I'll try just reloading the podcasts, first.