Podcast release dates metadata???

I have a video podcast that is listed in iTunes out of order and is being sorted by release date. At what step in the process is the release date metadata tied to the podcast?
I had to backdate a few blog entries but their release dates do not reflect the date I backlogged them at?
*So the big question is: How can I change the release date metadata of my video blog entries???*
NOTES: we use feedburner to create the feed and blogger to post the entries, the video are uploaded to ourmedia.org.

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Hi,
When we check in a new content Release date metadata field appears as an editable field. But on subsequent metadata updates it appears as a non editable field. Is it possible to make the release date field as editable ?
Regards,
Bhaskar

Hi Tim,
Whenever my customer makes changes to the Contribution Site through site studio, he wants to have hold on the Release date also. But currently release date becomes non editable when we do any metadata update. Is it possible to make this Release Date column editable or is there any option in Site Studio so that when the customer makes changes to the contribution site, before he saves the data there should be a pop up of update document information page with the release date column being editable ?
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On top of this, if I right-click on the itunes menu options running horizontal across the top of the podcast library window, I can include "year" as another category in addition to the standard "release date" (which cannot be removed), however "year" does tell me 2009 for all recent downloads. If I include "date added" and/or "date modified", meanwhile, the result is the same as that given by "release date". This is a pretty bizarre realization. Anyone else having this problem? Maybe it's a problem with the latest iTunes release? My OS X clock is perfectly okay, no problems there. Help please!

If you get incorrect dates in Date Added and Date Modified, that is not the cause of individual podcasts, but iTunes' date processing.
I had a problem with date processing and it turned out it was due to my using Custom settings in the Date & Time SysPref. The system clock worked fine, but iTunes didn't, so I changed back to standard settings and iTunes was happy again.
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Edit the release date of a podcast ?

Hello everyone !
I have a question regarding iTunes and podcasts management. I really enjoy a specific podcast, which I follow from a few monthes. A friend of mine has given me the whole archives of the show, from more than two years, as plain mp3 files. I successfully added them to iTunes, then specified them as podcasts so that they would appear in the right section of the library.
But there is a glitch : the old podcasts do not have a release date, on the contrary to the more recent ones that I have downloaded from the iTunes store. I would like to manually edit the release dates of the old files so that they fit with the new ones, but I can't seem to find the corresponding field in the informations window...
So if any of you have a solution, I would be very interested !
Thanks in advance !
Thomas
(I'm running iTunes 10.4.1 (10) and Mac OS X 10.7.1)

Hi, Thomas. It took me several hours of scouring the Internet and testing solutions on my computer, but I finally have answers for you:
This will be a comprehensive answer that includes solutions to some things you may not have asked about. It's so I can copy this answer into several other threads where similar questions are being asked.
Q: How do I add an mp3 podcast file to Mac iTunes 10.6.3 (the latest version as of July 13, 2012)?
1. Open iTunes, go to the FILE menu, select ADD TO LIBRARY, select your mp3 file in the dialog box, and click on Open.
2. The file will most likely have been added to your Music library and not your Podcast library. If this is the case, select the newly-added podcast in your Music library, go to the FILE menu, select GET INFO, click on the OPTIONS tab of the dialog box, change the MEDIA KIND dropdown menu to "Podcast," and click on OK. Your mp3 podcase should move to the Podcasts library.
Q: Now that I've added the mp3 podcast to my Podcasts library in iTunes, how do I change the release date so that it shows up in the proper order with all the other podcasts in that series?
1. Download the program ID3 Editor from http://www.pa-software.com/id3editor/
2. After you've downloaded, extracted, and moved the application to your Applications folder, open ID3 Editor.
3. Go to the FILE menu in ID3 Editor and choose OPEN and select your mp3 file from the iTunes Music folder (not the original mp3 which may be in a different location on your computer). If you don't know where it is, go to iTunes, right-click (or <Control>-click) on the podcast, and select SHOW IN FINDER to see its exact location. The usual path is USER NAME > MUSIC > iTUNES MUSIC > PODCASTS > folder with name of podcast.
4. Your podcast will open in ID3 Editor with the Standard tab active. Click on the EXTENDED tab to see the RELEASED tag field.
5. In the RELEASED tag field, add or change the podcast release date to whatever you want it to be. The format is 2012-07-13 16:30:00 (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS).
6. Click on UPDATE in the lower left and the file will close with your changes saved.
7. Select the newly-updated podcast in your Music library, go to the FILE menu, select GET INFO, and click on OK to update the information in iTunes. The podcast should now move to the proper place in order when sorted by Release Date.
Q: My podcasts are in different folders instead of all being in the same folder. How do I group them back together?
1. To make all your podcasts show up in the same folder, the IDENTIFIER and FEED tags need to match for all podcasts.
2. Open ID3 Editor and open all of the podcasts you want to group in iTunes under one folder. (Remember to open the files from within the iTunes Music > Podcasts folder and not from your desktop or Documents folder where you may have stored originals downloaded from the podcast's website.)
3. For each mp3 file opened in ID3 Editor, switch from the Standard tab to the PODCASTS tab.
4. If you have a podcast that shows up properly in iTunes and should be the default name/location for all the other disparate podcasts in the series, bring that file's window forward and copy the URL from its IDENTIFIER field.
5. For every other mp3 file for that podcast that you have open in ID3 Editor, PASTE that URL in to the respective IDENTIFIER field for each one.
6. From the same file you copied the Identifier URL, now copy the FEED URL.
7. For every other mp3 file for that podcast that you have open in ID3 Editor, PASTE that URL in to the respective FEED field for each one.
8. For every podcast file, make sure ENABLE PODCAST TAG is checked (in the upper left of the Podcast tab).
9. Now you have to number all the files properly. To do that, you need to be in the STANDARD tab in ID3 Editor.
10. Count up the total number of podcasts in the series you're consolidating. That TOTAL# number will go in the second TRACK field in the upper left (i.e., Track # of TOTAL#)
11. In the first TRACK field in the upper left, number your files in the order you want them to be listed (i.e., TRACK# of Total#). Also put the TRACK# in the TRACK field in the upper right (next to "Enable V1 tag").
12. Click on UPDATE in the lower left of each file to close each one with your changes saved.
13. For each of the newly-updated podcast files in your Music library, select it so that it's highlighted, go to the FILE menu, select GET INFO, and click on OK to update the information in iTunes. Once you've done this for every file, all podcasts in the series should be under one folder. (If not, make sure the ALBUM field matches exactly for each file.)
I hope the above resolves all the difficulties you've experienced with Podcasts in iTunes. If not, let me know and I'll add more detail (or correct any inadvertent errors in my instructions).

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@King_Penguin thanks for your help
See below some additional info:
I have 3 Macs:
1 X MBPr 2012 (OS X 10.9.1
1 X MBPr 2012 (OS X 10.8.5)
1 X iMac 2009 (OS X 10.8.5)
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
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