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   Ian Nalepa
   Member
   Posted 11 years ago

   Hello,

   We noticed that the category set in the overall podcasts is not included for each item in the podcast. This can result in a generic category being applied to the individual items. For example, publishing an iTunesU podcast of category "Business" will list the podcast itself under business but each episode will be assigned a category of "iTunesU" since it is not explicitly specified.

   Two solutions would be to either repeat the podcast category for each item, which is what we've done as a temporary fix, or add a podcast category drop-down to the new media form which shows up if an item is selected in the "Add to Podcast" drop-down.
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   Ian Nalepa
   Member
   Posted 11 years ago

   Further research shows that more work would be needed depending on whether or not a podcast is being published to iTunes or iTunesU. It appears the method may change depending on namespace...

   http://sitemanager.itunes.apple.com/help/AboutTheFeedEditor/chapter_10_section_10.html

   So, maybe not such a simple enhancement, but it would be nice to pursue in a future version. I'm not sure to what degree the categories overlap between iTunes and iTunesU, but possibly selecting a category in the editor could add all of the appropriate tags for each deployment method to the XML...

   For now, it seems easiest for us to hard code the XML template to include exactly what we need and to hide the category drop down in the podcast form.

   Thanks for listening... =)

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