ITunes Export Description Field

The standard playlist export exlcudes the 'Description' field.
Is there a way to include the 'Descritpion' field when exporting a Podcast playlist from iTunes?

write a small program
use FM "TR_NAMETAB_GET" to get the table definition and use gui_download to download it to excel.
IV_TABNAME                     'SFLIGHT'
                  IV_GET_LENGTHS_IN_CHARMODE      'X'
   IV_GET_TEXTS                    'X'
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Thanks for the quick response!
Yeah, it is odd, because I've seen it work with some simple test sites with a few products, but not so fortunate on this one and it has many products.
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