[gpodder-devel] Automatically Modifying id3 tags for Podcasts

  • From: hfwilke at gmail.com (Hal Wilke)
  • Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:56:25 -0600

I like this idea.  More than just adding a name to the podcast, I would 
also like to be able to control genre.  Some of the podcasts I get have 
odd genres, or no genres, which is how I locate them when I am playing 
them on my blackberry.

-hal

On 11/09/2010 08:51 AM, Eric Mesa wrote:
> Hello Wonderful gPodder Devs and other Subscribers to the list,
>
> Yesterday moved from an iPod shuffle to a Sandisk Sanza Fuze.  While 
> playing with the Sandisk, I realized that a large portion of  my 
> podcasts (specifically the non-tech ones) don't have an album id3 tag 
> and thus all get lumped into unknown.  I did a search on the gPodder 
> archives for id3 and didn't see anything on this specific topic.  I'd 
> like to solve this issue which, I'm sure would be beneficial for other 
> users.
>
> First of all, has someone developed a script for this?  Or is there 
> some kind of option in the advanced preferences option that I missed 
> that would deal with this?
>
> If not, I propose the following solution - have gPodder check the file 
> and if it doesn't have an album id3 tag - use the name of the podcast 
> (what displays in the left column of gPodder) as the album name.  Of 
> course, this would add some processing time (especially for someone 
> that has a lot of podcasts) so it would definitely be advisable to 
> make an option.  And of course there'd have to be a determination on 
> what is the best time to do it - immediately after d/l, before a 
> transfer, etc
>
>
> --
> Eric Mesa
> http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com
>
>
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