RE: Disappearing data upon "media kind" change

I have some videos that when converted to podcast have disappeared in itunes but show up in appletv. How can I show and get rid of them or reindex to get rid of them? (This seems to be the case in both my mac book and windows machine)

Thanks, Wozza!
I ran into the same problem when I imported some MP4s then changed their Kind to Podcast while leaving the Album field blank. It created an "Unknown Podcast" folder containing the MP4 files in my iTunes Media Library, but I couldn't find the assets in iTunes under any category. I deleted the MP4 files and the "Unknown Podcast" folder without deleting them through iTunes since I couldn't find them.
When I added the Smart Playlist with Media Kind set to "Podcast", I noticed the assets that were created in the past. The problem now is I couldn't delete them, so now the assets were going to exist forever without any file to link to. They remained with a "!".
To fix this, I dragged the same files in. I changed their status to Podcast with the Album field blank, then I re-linked them from Smart Playlist. From there, I changed their Album data to a temporary name as well as changed their Media Kind to Movie, so they would be removed from the Smart Playlist. From the Movie category, I deleted them, and they are gone for good! They don't appear in any Smart Playlist marked with Media Kind as Podcast or Movie.
Thanks for sharing the Smart Playlist trick because this helped me resolve my dead-end asset issue.

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I have an Ipod Touch 4th gen 32gb. I am running Itunes with windows XP.

Have you tried:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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I realize that the way I do things is unorthodox, but I fail to see why itunes can't manage something that seems as simple as switching the media kind back and forth. I had this problem with my old 160gb ipod classic and older versions of itunes, but I thought that this bug would be fixed by now with itunes 11.
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iTunes is looking for your music in the default directory. Since everything was moved, re-direct it with the instructions I gave you:
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iTunes Match seems to have a mind of its own.
Here's my problem. I recorded a programme from the radio purely to listen to at a later time. It is a mixture of interview and classical music. Recorded as an AAC file at 320kbps. File size 161mb. So I do not want this to upload to iTunes match (it is one of a series of 5 related programmes).
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This for Mac only (sorry).
'Subler' offers a nice 'clean' way of adding the requisite tags to m4a files, also for iTunes U.
It's free at http://code.google.com/p/subler/
This works only for m4a files. I have not found a solution for mp3s.
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I have downloaded some free podcasts from Soundcloud but they are not going into my podcast tab in iTunes. I have clicked
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