Podcast to regular mp3 conversion

MengerSponge

I have a podcast that's essentially a series of songs; each episode is a single track. However, to play them, I have to go into the "podcast" area on iTunes, I can't mix them in with regular mp3's. Now, they're already in mp3 format, and Songbird will treat them as regular song files, but I can't see an easy way to mix them in with my iTunes collection, or transfer them to my iPod (again, without having to separately search through the podcast menu). A quick Goggle search suggests that there's a part of the ID3 tag that marks it as a podcast, which you can't edit through iTunes.

Anyone know of a program that strips this out, or some other way to make it treat them like a regular song file (I'm using OS X)? I'd like to avoid resorting to burning them to a CD, then re-ripping them, because of the obvious quality loss.

Rysca

Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to do it in OS X; if you use boot camp or have access to a PC you can use ephpod though to edit the tag information.

It would be a bit laborious, but you could: burn a data cd (or use a USB thumb drive) with these mp3's on them, switch over to a windows machine and windows format your ipod (or use a different ipod that is windows formatted), and then lastly open up ephpod on said windows machine and pull the files from the CD onto the ipod. Once transfered you can edit the ID tag from within ephpod. You then save the files off the ipod using ephpod and burn them onto a data cd (or USB thumb drive) to transfer them back to your mac. Reformat the ipod back to mac, and upload the songs off the cd (or thumb drive) into itunes and theoretically the tag is gone.

I've got to believe there's an easier way, and I've never had to do this exact scenario before, but I have used ephpod to edit the tag information on my own mp3's and it's pretty easy. Not the best, but it's one solution if you can't find a better one.

Cheers,

Rysca