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?
P.S. - I'm not sure if this helps or if anyone gives a crap, but my reason for trying to do this has to do with the recent Welcome To Night Vale "Condos" live show recording that was released, for those of you who are familiar. It was released as a song on iTunes and on Bandcamp as an mp3. My OCD can't deal with having an hour long podcast that's part of a continuous storyline shuffled in with my music when it should be coupled with the rest of the Welcome To Night Vale episodes.

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?

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