Here's Apple's document for Podcast specs. It covers the "categories" & "language" tags that control how iTunes displays your podcast.

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Change bitrate for downloading podcasts

How can I change the file size or bit rate for downloaded podcasts? A 30 minute podcast takes up a third of my ipod shuffle. Since these podcasts are spoken word, I don't need a high-quality recording. Options under "podcast" don't seem to have this available.

How can I change the file size or bit rate for downloaded podcasts?
You cannot change the bitrate they are downloaded at.
Once they are downloaded, you can convert the bitrate.
iTunes prefs -> Advanced - Importing.
Set it to what you want.
Then select the file in iTunes and menu Advanced -> *Convert selection to*...

How can I change the category for my podcast?

I just had my podcast approved, but the category is not correct.
I checked Powerpress and I selected Health-->self help, but in itunes it's listed under the general Health category.
Also when I submitted to iTunes, it said my secondary category was sexuality which was not correct.
How can I fix my categories and make sure they are in the right places?
Again I check Powerpress and I have the cateogries I want, but it's not showing up in iTunes.
http://getbusylivingblog.com/feed/podcast/
That is my feed if it will help.

Sometimes the Store will show the wrong category during the submissions process. Wait until it's actually in the Store and see whether it comes out correct there - the feed itself is correct.

How do I add a new category for my podcast?

I'm in "Business" now and want to add "Society and Culture". Is it possible to appear in 2 categories and if so, how do I do it? Thanks!

If your are using a podcast creation program or service it should provide a way of adding a category. In the unlikely event that you are hand-writing your feed this Apple Tech Note explains howto format the tags:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#category
Note that only the first category will appear in the iTunes Store. However, even if you add a second category searching just on the category in the iTunes Store is most unlikely to throw up your podcast. There are thousands of podcasts out there, and it would be quite impossible to display on one page the entire list for any category. What you see are 'featured' podcasts, chosen by Apple as being special; please see this Tech Note:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#getfeatured
Note that there is no way you can influence the selection other than making your podcast really special.

Changing artwork for a podcast published in iTunes

Hello,
I recently created my own website in iWeb and published it to my .Mac account. Then I added a few podcasts created with GarageBand, they are also published on my .Mac website.
Then I submitted the podcast to iTunes. iTunes "took over" the artwork from the website with no author information, and there was no way in changing that during the submission. The podcast got approved but now the artwork that is used in iTunes is not really what I want. iTunes also lists "Unknown" as author.
Have a look yourself: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=211034820
Is there a way that I can change that? Yes, I have read the techspecs provided by Apple, but I do not really want to go down to bits and bytes and, above all, want that everythings continues to run automatically. I do not want to make manual changes to code everytime I republish the site.
Thanks for your suggestions, happy New Year by the way. Cheers,
Jean-Paul
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Jean-Paul,
Although I haven't actual experience yet in publishing to iTunes, I would guess that to update your podcast series artwork there, it is simply a question of dragging a new image to the top-most placeholder in your iWeb podcast page. As the message says when you mouse-over that placeholder: "Drag a new image here to replace it." ...Then re-publish your site to .Mac.
The next step is extracted from someone else's post:
...Then you are supposed to ping iTunes and check back in an hour.
Here's the ping url if you don't have it...
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=YOURFEEDHERE
The "YOURFEEDHERE" is where you put your feed number from iTunes. It's in your acceptance email that iTunes sent you when your podcast was posted.
<<<<<<<<<<
...But whatever image you drop into that particular iWeb theme's placeholder, it will appear distorted in iTunes because the iTunes artwork holder is square, not rectangular - as your placeholder and image is. Try using iWeb's "White" template podcast page instead of your current template. The White's top-most placeholder is square (245x245 pixels) and therefore should not distort your image in iTunes.
By the way, Jean-Paul, I listened to the first episode of your "Flyfisherjournal" podcast on iTunes and found it both interesting and enjoyable - even though I've never fished before in my life! And the "tiny part of eternity" you mentioned can be found in any situation - by simply paying attention to the shapes and colors in your peripheral vision. With that practice, instead of just looking, you are also aware of yourself looking...
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Changing artwork for submitted podcast

Hi
I have submitted a podcast URL is https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/lynn-coxs-podcast/id555988938 and would like to know how I go about changing the artwork image that is now appearing to something else.
thanks

The image URL in your feed is podcastanagrammaticalunsods.podomatic.com/images/pcast240.jpg
The image which shows appears to be a default Podomatic image:
If this is the image you specified then all you have to do is to specify a new one in the same place (give it a different filename). However some of these online services insist on placing their own image instead of yours: I don't know whether Podomatic is one of them.

Urgent - How to change Item category for Open Purchase Order

Hi Team,
Lil bit tricky issue.
My client has asked us to change the existing Item Category values, Combinations, Category Set etc. Its been changed and uploaded successfully.
The question here is how we need to handle the category for Open Purchase Order. How to update the same.
Do we need to do manually or any other way ?
Please advice
Regarads,
John

Hi John,
This is reallly a tricky issue!
I guess you cannot change the category of an existing PO's.
This field will be greyed out once we save the form...there were no profiles/other setups to enable this field.
For all new PO's since you have changed the new category value that should not be a issue.
Lets wait for some of our colleuges opinion.
I guess PO cancel should be the final option if we dont hear any new work arounds.
Thanks
-Arif.

Is there a way to change the order in which iTunes searches for new podcasts?

When I tell iTunes to update podcasts, it searches for them in the order that I have subscribed to them. However, most of my favorite podcasts I've started listening to only very recently, so on a day with a large number of new podcasts I have to wait for a few minutes before iTunes even detects and places them on the "downloading" queue. The sheer number of podcasts I am subscribed to makes unsubscribing from all and then resubscribing in a more optimal order thoroughly unpleasant. Is there a way I can reorder the priority queue for checking for new podcasts, so that I can click 'refresh,' grab my favorites right away, put them on my iPod Shuffle, and the leave the rest to download?

I'm not sure, but I think the change was using the font "Segoe UI" instead of "Tahoma", and maybe, Lucida Grande.
I haven't tried it, but I assume you can edit the fonts, which are specified in (basically) a text file (at least, for iTunes 10).
Make a backup of the file before you edit anything (or you can repair/reinstall if you mess it up). See the following post for some more info:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12226047#12226047
You'll want to edit the "font", not the "xp-font". I can't tell you what fonts will work.

How to change title for podcast on iweb

I am getting the error that my podcast has already been submited to itunes but it hasn't. I sent itunes support an email and they said to change the title of the RSS. Can anyone tell me how to do that in iweb for the podcast?

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Change of risk category for a customer

Hi all,
i made a change to the risk category of the existing customer, but my sales order created earlier, in change mode for qty or value reacts in different on the credit management perspective, it does not react specific to the old risk category nor it does not react specific to the new risk category. Please let me know on the possible cause.
also please let me know on where can i find the risk category for a sales order.
Thanks & Regards
ilango

Hello Ilango,
Senthils has made a valid point.
As the Credit Management data is changed after the Sales Order is created the system will not automatically update the Risk Category in Sales Order.
As suggested run T-Code - F.28 & select recreate FI & SD Data.
This will ensure that the change of Risk Category is reflected in your open Sales Order.
Hope this helps...
Thanks,
Jignesh Mehta

How do I change the artist/owner name for my podcast?

How do I change the artist/owner name for my podcast?
For eg, a podcast has 'The Ricky Gervais Podcast' and underneath 'Ricky Gervais'. I can't see where to change the latter. I can't change that through our podcast host Libsyn.
Is it done through iTunes?
Jack

You can't change anything in iTunes: all infomation is carried in the feed, in this case in the 'itunes:author' tag. there will certainly be somewhere to enter it but if you can't find it you will need to contacts Libsyn; or quite possible Rob Walch, who works for them and posts here, will see this question.

Change Merchandise Category for Article

Hi
Can you please tell me the procedure for changing the Merchandise Category for an article and also let me know the implications for the same. Purchase and Sales for the article have been done.
Thanks in advance
Poonam

Hi Poonam,
This process shows how to can change the assignment of articles to merchandise categories and merchandise category levels in merchandise category hierarchies. This process is called as Reclassification.
To do this, you have to carry out Process Flow as below;
(1) Define the planned date for the reclassification version and assign a change identification.
(2) Select the objects to be reclassified:
Article
Merchandise category
Merchandise category hierarchy level
(3) If an article is to be moved to a merchandise category which has a characteristics profile assigned to it, decide if the article should be assigned to the merchandise category directly or to the characteristics profile.
The system checks the characteristics of source and target objects: reassignment is only possible if the characteristics and characteristic values of the source also exist in the target.
(4) The system checks the level at which stock is managed in the affected sites: if in at least one site the stock is managed at a higher level than the article level, reclassification is only possible if the value-only article remains the same or if no stock exists anyway.
(5) Process the error log and change the reclassification version, as necessary.
Save the reclassification version. This is a simulation version, meaning that it does not take effect until it is actually activated. You can change this version right up until its activation date.
(6) By activating ("updating") the reclassification version, you confirm that the relevant objects are to be moved on a specified date and - if articles are being moved - that the merchandise categories are to be changed in open purchase orders and allocation table items (optional). New listing conditions can be created and old ones deleted, as required.
(7) If necessary, you update the Information System (manual function).
Bye,
Muralidhara

Changing of data class and size category for keyfigures .

Hi,
I am not able to change the data class and size category for keyfigures .
can you please let me know how to enable the changing of data class and size category for keyfigure under Maintain DB storage parameters.

Ok then it sounds like your primary key of 8 fields and secondary index of 3 non-unique fields appear somewhat similar to the database and it wrongly uses the secondary index. Perhaps you can try to declare the table as a SORTED table with index fields as key. I doubt this will do any good, but you can try.
You can try to deactivate the sec. index if it is not being used.
Or by far the best but also debatable, try to pass hints to the SQL parser by %_hints statement. Please refer to SAP note 129385 for details on hints in general and note 772497 for various hints statements for ORACLE DB. This will surely make the DB interface use the primary index and the update would be faster. But with 1 million records, hopefully you are not looking at response time in micro seconds, are you?
rgds,
Prabhu

HT1819 Since there is a new Itunes Version 11.0, I was wondering if there is any change of design specifications or sizes change for the podcast such as banners and art work cover.

Since there is a new Itunes Version 11.0, I was wondering if there is any change of design specifications or sizes change for the podcast such as banners and art work cover.

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''A troubleshooting mode, which disables most Add-ons.'' <br />
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''Don't select anything right now, just use "Continue in SafeMode."''
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Change the FEED for my podcast

Hello!!!
I have summited a feed for my podcast. And I want to change it. The feed is in my web page but I want to change it to a feed from FeedBurners so that I can get statics about my podcast.
How DO I do this.

I quote from Apple's podcast Tech Specs page
Changing Your Feed URL.
Podcasters occasionally need to move their feed from one location to another. To do so without losing subscribers, you must convey the change directly to all users who are subscribed to your feed. If possible, you should do two things:
You should use the <itunes:new-feed-url> tag described in the iTunes RSS Tags section below. The tag will cause the iTunes Store to be updated with the new feed URL, as well as all iTunes client versions that support podcasting.
You should set your web server to return an HTTP 301 response and redirect when receiving a request for the old feed. Doing so will cause both the iTunes Store and the most (but not all) iTunes clients that have subscribed to your podcast to pick up the new feed URL.
The <itunes:new-feed-url> tag will work for iTS and all versions of the iTunes client that support podcasting. The 301 redirect will work for most of your subscribers who do not use the iTunes client. We recommend that you use both methods to update the greatest possible number of subscribers with your new feed URL.
Be sure to maintain the <itunes:new-feed-url> tag and the 301 redirect for at least two weeks to ensure that most subscribers have attempted to download your most recent episode and have thereby received the new URL.
If you are not able to use both methods, you may want to include an audio note in your podcast, informing your subscribers that your podcast has changed locations.

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