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How does an iPhone know which mp3s are podcasts?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20261512 views
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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 woul…

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I think that the way that iTunes separates out podcasts in the Library has to do with how podcasts are synced. Podcast are handled differently than Mp3s. I just dug into the iTunes Music Library.xml and saw that on podcasts, the following elements a…

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