HELP! Audio Podcast Marker Image Being Compressed to Mangled Blob

I am trying to create an audio podcast in STP2.
I add an image for the Marker by selecting "Image Source Other" and select a 2444x1583 jpeg image. The image shows up in the preview box and it looks good. I activate Show External Video (^V) and the image looks perfect.
However as soon as I select any tab, track, whatever... and the image preview box disappears, and I then come back to the marker image preview, the image has now been processed and compressed to a completely unrecognizable blob! If I go ahead and export the podcast, the marker image is displayed in iTunes looking exactly like the mangled image in STP and has been reduce to 53Wx35H pixels!!!
This mangling also occurs with the Episode image, although it actually does not even get exported to the final podcast.
To create the podcast I make sure the file type is AAC/Podcast File > Podcast > Enhanced (Images).
Can someone PLEASE help me figure why the images are being mangled and how I can get a full quality marker image displayed?
BTW - I have tried various file formats including PDF and PNG and the results are the same - ALWAYS a 53Wx35H pixel image.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
ASIDE - I created the same podcast in Garageband 09 and the images are Crystal clear. However, the marker image ALWAYS gets distorted form wide screen format to square, so that it become useless for distribution.
TIA for anyone that reads this and responds.

OK - Got It Figured Out!!! Woo Hoo!!
I am able to do exactly what I want in Compressor... go figure!!
1. Select "AAC for Audio Podcast" preset.
2. In the Encoder Audio tab, select "Enhanced Padcast (m4a file)"
3. Change "Fit marker images within" to "1280" by "1024"
4. Add Chapter marker and edit
5. Change Type to "Podcast"
6. Select Image "From file" and select the HR file - could drag from Finder as well.
7. Save
8. Submit (took about 30 seconds to run)
Viola!! A nice, tight, small, HR slide show; 5 minutes long and ONLY 4.5 MB - about .1 MB larger than the audio alone! The entire process (once the new preset is saved) takes less than a minute - as long as you know the time code for the marker image placement.
Took a weekend to figure out, but well worth it!
Off to make the Client VERY happy!!

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I have reviewed all system, mail and third-party preferences to make sure nothing is checked to "adjust for web", or the like. Your thoughts will be much appreciated to help solve this vexing mystery.

Be sure the Image Size pop-up at the upper right corner of the message body, after attaching a picture, is set to "Actual Size".

Podcast Cover Image & Recent Podcasts Not Appearing

I know this question has been asked before, but I can't seem to get the Podcast Cover Image to appear on my client's iTunes podcast page both within iTunes and on Apple's iTunes website. When I'm subscribed to it, it does show up. What am I doing wrong?
Additionally I'm having a problem with my last 3 podcasts not appearing, and I can't figure out what happened there.
Below are links to the page on Apple site and the feed I'm using, but please let me know if I need to provide more. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/living-grace-lutheran-church/id348311926?mt=2
feed://livinggraceomaha.org/lg-sermonpodcasts.xml

Your feed is OK, except that most of your episodes do not have 'guid' tags, and your enclosure tags are missing the 'length' attribute which should show the file size in bytes. Neither of these is serious and they would not cause a problem.
The Store does go through slow patches sometimes: there have been numerous occasions when people have complained about not seeing updates for two or three weeks, and I'm afraid that you've probably just hit one of these. There isn't really anything you can do about it. You could try emailing them at podcasts 'at' apple.com, but frankly you are likely to get a form answer telling you how to add episodes (which you already know). I'm afraid that it's just a question of waiting.

Audio Stream Recorder - Error: Audio device is already being used by another prog

I realized that Audio Stream Recorder is does not "work" through server list feature. So I am simply trying to use the manual method of adding URL's to the interface. However regardless of the type of stream, shoutcast, windows media or real audio, I receive the error "audio device is already being used by another program". Does anyone know how to fix this? I have closed my audio application etc to no avail. <RANT WARNING> I was very excited about using this application when I read about it. However an application that provides none of the stated features is not an application, its false advertising, since it clearly states on the box, help files and website this products "features". Anyway, it'ss very disappointing. Also, does anyone know what the supported steaming formats are, the help file say the application requires RealONE and Windows Media Player but does not mention audio stream formats? Thanks you in advance for any help.

I have the same issue. I updated to the latest software, to no avail. My first suspicion is that some Microsoft patch caused this, but I cannot verify this.
Apparently no one at Creative is very interested in this issue.

TS4040 I assumed this would help my problem with not being able to open apps like Preview or TextEdit since I installed Mountain Lion. Instead, first I'm prompted to enter a password, then once I do that, I get an error box telling me the Library needs re

I assumed this would help my problem with not being able to open apps like Preview or TextEdit since I installed Mountain Lion. Instead, first I'm prompted to enter a password, then once I do that, I get an error box telling me the Library needs repairing. So I click on Repair, and once again I'm prompted for a password, which I enter, then the same error box opens, and so it goes. Can anyone help me with this problem? I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thor

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -Rh $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Step 1 should give you usable permissions in your home folder. This step will restore special attributes set by OS X on some user folders to protect them from unintended deletion or renaming. You can skip this step if you don't consider that protection to be necessary, and if everything is working as expected after step 1.
Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

Grid View: Flags, Rating, Color Label read only? / Mark Images Read only?

Hi
I'd like to see the flag-status, rating and color label assigned to an image as cell icons. But if I show them as Cell Icons, I am also able to change them, which happens to me quite often accidentally when I click into the frame of a image to change selections.
Is it possible to show these markers for each image without being able to change them in the frame? I would be quite happy being able to change them from the tool bar, but still being able to see them on the single image.
Related to this:
Is it somehow possible to mark images as read only, so that further changes (development, metadata etc.) can be made impossible? This would be nice for older images, which have been processed completely and should stay that way, inhibiting accidental changes to images. Sometimes it is difficult to even notice when one accidentally changes metadata on an image.
Thanks for your thoughts
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

Yes it's a bug. I see it on Mac platform.

Streaming audio podcast randomly unpauses when paused

Often when I listen to streaming audio podcasts on iTunes, if I have to pause it for any reason, it will unpause itself after a few seconds and resume playing. This can be irritating, because usually when I'm pausing it's because I need to step away, which means the heaphones come off. Then I will return and the podcast is already playing. If I don't mark the time when I pause it, I could lose several minutes.
I have been pausing the stream lately just to watch iTunes's behavior. Sometimes, sure enough, I'll see it automatically resume playback with no accidental button pushing or screen tapping.
Can anyone explain why it does this? It should always remain paused until I unpause it. Every time.

I see a similar problem with music loaded into the iPod software on my iPhone 3G. In this case, when I remove the headphones from the headphone jack (ie. not Bluetooth), the iPod software will suddenly kick in and begin playing the last music I was listening to. Note, this music in the iPod software is paused and still lists as "Now Playing" because there does not appear to be a way to tell the iPod software that you are done listening to that music.
This is a basic flaw with the iPhone software. It seems you cannot tell any software to "Exit" because you are done -- you can only hit the "Home" button and leave the software in background. This can be a plus in some circumstances in that the software will start up again much faster, but it can also be a negative in that the running software is vulnerable to doing unexpected things.
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Playing audio podcasts from my iPod on TV

I have no problem playing video podcasts from my iPod on TV, using the Apple AV cable and a scart adapter.
However, when I play an audio podcast, I hear the audio on the TV, but I don't see the accompanying visuals that are part of the audio podcast.
I tried to find a "TV on" setting for audio podcasts (similar to that used for video podcasts) but couldn't.
Can anyone help/advise?
Thanks in advance!

I belive your Ipod is operating normally!
I belive the only time you'll get a visual is when your playing back Video, Music video and Video podcast.
There are no visuals output to Tv for audio programs;only on the Ipod itself!
Compaq PC / 1GB Ipod Nano & 80GB Video Windows XP Pent 2.53 GHZ 512MHZ MB RAM 120GB HD

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