Add Missing Podcast Episodes to Podcast Section

The podcast I listen to the most decided to cut its feed down to 20 shows, so now that I changed my hard-drive and didn't back up the podcast folder, I only have the last 20 shows, out of 200.
I found a server that had backups of the podcast, and I manually downloaded each one (1 to 180). Now I'd like to add those missing shows to my podcast folder, but I can't. iTunes adds them to my Library?
Is there any easy way to solve this problem?

I have a similar problem, for some reason one specific podcast from a subscribed series I get has moved into the standard library. How would I change it back. Is it something to do with ID3 tags? Please help!

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    Hello,
    We have been podcasting on iTunes since October 2005 and you can find our podcast in the iTunes directory at:
    http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=81508264
    The problem is that 3 of our episodes (i.e. Jan 2007, Nov 2006, and Sep 2006) are not showing up in iTunes. If you download our full RSS feed from http://feeds.feedburner.com/dhammapodcasts into a feed reader other than iTunes you will see it shows all the 31 episodes. But for some reason in iTunes only 28 episodes show up (i.e. it is missing the episodes posted on Jan 2007, Nov 2006, and Sep 2006). As all 31 episodes show up in various other feed readers this tells me there is something in iTunes that is handling the feed differently and hence not displaying these 3 episodes.
    If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated. I contacted iTunes support and they said the only offer limited support for podcasts on iTunes and simply pointed me to: http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html. I reviewed the information on this page, but it did not help.

    Hello,
    I found this section in our Feedburner control panel called Pod Medic (Troubleshootize --> PodMedic).
    It showed me the problem with our Nov. 2006 and Jan. 2007 podcasts was that there were spaces in the file names of our MP3s. Once I updated them to only have underscores it worked fine.
    The problem with our Sept 2006 podcast was not picked up by PodMedic, but I found it to be an error with the link we put into the enclosure field. For some reason we had listed a non-working URL so Feedburner picked up the next working URL in our post which was the Flash version hence it dd not work in iTunes. We now have the correct MP4 URL in the enclosure filed and now it works.
    So the lessons to keep in mind are: (1) Always check iTunes after making a new post to ensure that it shows up, and (2) PodMedic is your friend so make use of it.

  • Is it possible to add mp3 downloads to the podcast section of your iPod?

    I understand that you can download mp3's from the internet and drag them from your computer files to iTunes, and this is a nice way to get songs that are unavailable elsewhere. But from what I can tell, podcasts don't work like that. You can't just drag an mp3 file into your iPod's podcast section on iTunes. Is there another way to do this? Is it even possible?
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    I have two three suggestions:
    1. I may be wrong, but if you change the MP3 to a Podcast, it may be placed in a different "group" to the items that were downloaded as Podcasts, especially if the relevant tags are different. So it wouldn't be coupled with the Podcast episodes. If Condos was never intended as a Podcast, the titles etc in the MP3 tags are likely to be different to the Podcast. You would then need to identify which fields needed changing in order to group them togethre. I have no idea of any unwanted consequences if you do that.
    If you want to try this, select the "Condos" in your iTunes Library, and click on File/Get Info/Options>Media Kind=Podcast (in Windows, right-click/Get Info/Options>Media Kind=Podcast). As soon as you click OK, it will disappear from the Music Library and you will have to look for it in Podcast Library and see if it does drop in with the other ones. You will also need to set Condos to Skip when shuffling, otherwise it will continue to be selected when playing songs from your Music Library. See the next paragraph.
    2. Alternatively, since one thing you are keen on is to stop the album playing when shuffling through your Music Library, set Condos to Skip when shuffling as mentioned above, but don't bother trying to move it to Podcasts. Then, when you are playing your music in shuffle mode, it will not be played. (Podcasts are set this way by iTunes when they are downloaded as Podcasts). To do this, select the "Condos" in your iTunes Library, and click on File/Get Info/Options>Skip when shuffling (in Windows, right-click/Get Info/Options>Skip when shuffling).
    3. I've just thought of this idea while typing this.
    Change the Podcasts to Music; File/Get Info/Options>Media Kind=Music. Of course, the episodes will now disappear from the Podcasts Library but be added to the Music Library. Once in the Music Library, the Skip when shuffling option (which was set in Podcasts) will still be on, so once again, they will not be played when shuffling your music. If you wanted, you could now add Condos and the Podcasts episodes to an exclusive "Welcome To Night Vale" Playlist. (Since the Podcasts app on the iPod Touch now has such an odd arrangement for Podcasts, it's why I have not suggested creating a Playlist of "Condos" with the "Podcasts". I'm not convinced that it would work as you need it to do.)
    Any use to you?

  • Is it possible to manually add podcasts to the podcast section of an iphone

    Hello everyone.
    I've been trying to figure out a way to manually add podcasts to my iphone and have them show up in the podcast section. I can add podcasts fine to the music section, that works and they play fine but they can be hard to find amid the thousands of songs I have.
    When I try to manually add podcasts to the podcasts section in itunes, I get the sad red circle with a line through it, instead of the happy blue plus sign that I get when I add podcasts to the music section.
    Podcasts that I download are classified correctly, but the ones I want to add can't be downloaded anywhere anymore (licensing restrictions I believe).
    Am doing something wrong or is this the way itunes is meant to work? Something misconfigured maybe?
    I'm using itunes 7.6.2.9 on Vista.

    For some reason known only to Apple, only files downloaded through iTunes can be in the podcast section of iPod. As far as I know there is still no supported way around this.
    Occassionaly someone reports getting around issue by manually editing the file using a hex editor. This involves comparing iTunes downloaded file with non-iTunes downloaded file to find the difference. Once found, the equivalent setting in other files can be changed. I have never done it though.

  • Link arrows missing in Podcast section

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    My podcasts category is totally missing from my main library, and I cannot be checked-off in the General screen in iTunes Preferences? Big problem!!!

  • ITunes 8 -  podcast count includes missing podcast episodes

    In iTunes 8 (under podcasts tab) most of my podcasts seem to have disappeared, but they are still included in the episode count for each show. For example, iTunes says I have 20 episodes of MacBreak Weekly, and 3 not-listened to, but only one episode displays when I click the icon to open MacBreak Weekly. The counts are probably about correct for the number of podcasts I previously had, but where are all the missing podcast episodes, and why are they counted if they are not there? I couldn't find anyone else posting this problem.
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  • Add a Podcast - Missing?

    Hi - i have been getting used to working with podcasts.
    I have submitted 2 podcasts as tests - with the intention of removing them after i knew it all worked.
    Everything worked fine but i wanted to test one more, before removing them...
    However - in iTunes the Add A Podcast in the Quicklinks menu has disappeared????!!!
    Have i done something wrong? Do you think i have been blocked from using it - as i have been uploading "irrelevant material" with no descriptions or something...???
    Any help would be great
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    The 'Add a Podcast' link does not appear in the Quick Links: possibly this is a result of the recent revamp of the appearance of the Store (it's nothing to do with your submissions). The method for submitting described in the Help, and that in the Podcast Tech Specs page don't seem to work either. You can submit a podcast at
    https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/publishPodcast
    If you have successfully submitted a podcast you will get a confirmation email after a week or two, giving you the URL for the Store page on which your podcast appears. In order to remove a podcast you need to follow the procedure detailed here.
    You can test whether a feed works by choosing 'Subscribe to Podcast' from the 'Advanced' menu in iTunes: this doesn't involve the Store but has the same result as clicking the 'Subscribe' button on the Store page for a podcast. You can also check the validity of a podcast feed at
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  • I add a podcast in music, change the type to Podcast, and it disappears

    Eventually these seem to show up again, but it's very annoying. I add a podcast because I want to listen to it now... I am on Windows 7 with iTunes 10.
    I can try to add it again, but it never shows up. It's like iTunes thinks it's already added it, but it's invisible in both Music and Podcasts.

    marilyndw wrote:
    I download a podcast into my music folder on my hard drive.
    iTunes downloads Podcasts. What you have downloaded is not a Podcast.
    marilyndw wrote:
    I go into iTunes and use File->Add File to Library.
    If it was delivered to you as a Podcast, you would not need to do this.
    marilyndw wrote:
    Using the "Get Info" option, I change the "Media Kind" to be Podcast (it is set as Music).
    It then vanishes from iTunes
    As I said previously, simply changing the Media Kind to Podcast does not make it a Podcast. However, since you have done that, the file, whatever it is, will move to the Podcasts section of your iTunes Library. In the Podcasts section, it should be listed by its album title. So the "Album title" in the Music section, will become the "Programme name" in Podcasts, listed under the heading Podcasts and with an arrow next to it. Click on the arrow and the list will expand to reveal the "episodes". The "episode's" name will be the song title.
    I'll say it again. A Podcast is something that has been delivered to your iTunes by the delivery method known as Podcasting. The file itself is not "a Podcast". So when someone says "you're listening to our Podcast", it's actually a shorthand way of saying "you're listening to the programme we made, and which has been delivered to you as a Podcast."
    So, to find these missing files in your iTunes, use the search facility and look in the Podcasts section of your iTunes Library for the song name. In the results that appear you will not see the song name, because what you see is the "Programme name". You need to expand each result to find your song or whatever it is.
    The reason you have trouble adding it a second time is just that, you've already added it. But you've then changed some of the information about the file and when you try to "add it again" it is no longer "music", but a "Podcast", and that's because you set it that way.
    I still don't understand why you feel the need to change the file to Podcast.
    If this material is described by its producer as a Podcast, the why don't you find the Podcast through the iTunes Store and subscribe and download it through iTunes "as a Podcast"? If the programme truely is not to be found in the iTunes Store (by using search the store), then presumably the producer has the Podcast URL (or Podcast Feed, or the RSS link) shown on their website. You can copy-and-paste that Podcast URL into your iTunes Podcasts section and subscribe (for free, usually) to the Podcast, in iTunes. Then every new epsisode of the Programme will automatically download to your iTunes, put itself into your iTunes Podcasts Library and if you have set your iPod to Sync Podcasts, iTunes will also add that Podcast episode to your iPod.
    At the moment, you appear to be making extra and uneccessary work for yourself.
    And if this material is not actually a Podcast, then why try to make it so? What are you trying to achieve? You can listen to it, even when it's Media Kind is Music. If you're trying to stop it from playing when playing your music on shuffle, then leave it as Media Kind/Music but set it to Skip on shuffle.

  • How/Can i put a file from my library into my podcast section of itunes

    im listening to a podcast that isnt on itunes. I put the feed in the first night i listened to it and downloaded the 4 most recent episodes. i went back a few days later and downloaded 8 older shows but i got them straight from their website, not through itunes because they arent listed on the podcast directory. how do i take those 8 files and add them to the podcast section with the other 8 episodes?

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  • Why is the podcast section slow?

    I know this is probably not a new thread, but I'm getting sick and tired of continued releases of iTunes 11 being released for Windows and nothing being done to actually fix the Podcast section of the program. Whether it's related to the podcast art or not, I'm not sure, but regardless, loading the section and each subsequent click takes between 3 and 10 seconds each time. Add to that the lack of alphabetised listing, fewer settings for podcasts in general, and I wish I didn't have to be so reliant upon iTunes for my podcasting needs.
    Come on Apple, please provide a fix soon?

    Podcasts are not "stored" in the iTunes Store, so - and I'm guessing here...
    when a song is purchased in the iTunes Store, that download comes from the store itself and it's reasonable to assume that the list of songs is held by Apple in the store. The store will have an up-to-date list of the songs available, ready to give you at any time.
    but since Podcasts are downloaded directly to your iTunes Library from the Podcast producer's host site (and not from the store), it's reasonable to assume that the iTunes Store obtains a list of the Podcast episodes only when you ask for it. That's how it's kept up-to-date. So the store has to "look outside" the store (to another computer, located who-knows-where) at the time you ask for the list of contents. That takes time, albeit a very short time.
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    Apple/the iTunes Store does not "trade" the Podcasts (it doesn't "sell" them), and the store has almost no control over them.
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    Total unplayed episodes count now includes episodes that are not downloaded into my Library. Utter madness!
    My Stations. I just don't get it!
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