How does an iPhone know which mp3s are podcasts?

How does an iPhone know which mp3s are podcasts?

I recently got an iPhone, and quickly found I would rather use the Zune software instead of iTunes. So I turned on the manual syncing, and I can just drag the mp3 files I want over to the iPhone in iTunes. The problem is that some podcast mp3s show up in the podcast section and some do not. It wouldn't really matter except that only podcasts save their play position.

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bert [Entry]

This is now easily solvable in iTunes9. If you right click on a file and click 'Get Info' you can change the file to a podcast under the options tab.

bert [Entry]

A quick look through my iTunes library shows that most Podcasts have the ID3 genre attribute set to... "Podcast"

bert [Entry]

"For MP3s at least, it isn't just one ID3 tag -- it's several -- but I have managed to convince iTunes that an MP3 is a podcast strictly by manipulating the ID3 tags. (I copied all the tags from an iTunes-downloaded podcast using MP3Tag, tweaked a couple of them to prevent the new file from colliding with the old one, and did a manual add-file-to-library in iTunes, after which the MP3 appeared in the podcast list alongside the original 'cast I pulled the tags from.)

Unfortunately I haven't had time to figure it out well enough to take arbitrary MP3s and tag them as podcasts from scratch. But it does seem to be possible, if far more arcane than it needs to be."
"For MP3s at least, it isn't just one ID3 tag -- it's several -- but I have managed to convince iTunes that an MP3 is a podcast strictly by manipulating the ID3 tags. (I copied all the tags from an iTunes-downloaded podcast using MP3Tag, tweaked a couple of them to prevent the new file from colliding with the old one, and did a manual add-file-to-library in iTunes, after which the MP3 appeared in the podcast list alongside the original 'cast I pulled the tags from.)

Unfortunately I haven't had time to figure it out well enough to take arbitrary MP3s and tag them as podcasts from scratch. But it does seem to be possible, if far more arcane than it needs to be."