Handling existing Podcasts

I've read a lot of posts about people (like myself) who have a lot of existing podcasts from other sources, and would like to use iTunes to manage and sync them.
So far, it seems that there is a tag "Media Kind" which needs to be set to "Podcast", but which cannot be done through iTunes. I can set it to "Music" or "Audiobook", neither of which is correct.
Does anyone know of a tag editor that can fix this (PC)?
I write a lot of code - perhpas someone knows of a m4a tag library that I can use?

I think this is the problem.
Do you have Podcast checked in Preferences ?
Edit>Preferences>General
Go down to the library list and make sure Podcast is checked.
Don't forget to click OK.
iTunes should add Podcast to the Library window but you'll have to change them in Options when you right click on the podcasts and select Get Info.
Click OK when you're done.
That way iTunes will add them to Podcast and get them out of your music/audio books sections.

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bgerth wrote:
Is anyone using Podcast Producer 2 to publish content on iTunes U, and if so, does it work reasonably well (do you recommend using it)?
Its spiffy. I like it, but I'm a softie when it comes to Apple stuff.
Am I correct in thinking Podcast Producer 2 can only be used to create an RSS feed to point to podcasts stored in its Podcast Library or can you use Podcast Producer to upload files into our institutional iTunes U storage space (yes we are fortunate to have access to Apple's 500 GB storage space)?
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mary ellenfromoakville wrote:
I am hoping to use only a one minute portion of an hour long podcast
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