Podcast Tagging and MM

[caffeine]

New MM user here. All my music resides under /data/mp3, and all my podcasts reside under /data/mp3/other-3/podcasts.

I noticed that MM correctly identifies many of my podcast mp3 files as podcasts and lists them under the podcast node. However, some are listed under the music node.

How does MM determine what mp3 file is a podcast (to be displayed under the Podcasts node) and what mp3 file is a music file (to be displayed under the Music node)?

What is the best practice for tagging podcasts? We have many fields to play with and I've never given podcast tagging much thought before. I'd like to know what other people do to organize their podcasts effectively and optimally under MM.

Thanks!

[Peke]

Simplest way is to add genre "Podcast" to files that are podcasts and remove from those that are not.

[caffeine]

Thanks Peke. Doesn't seem to work as expected. Screenshot showing songs retagged with "Podcast" still showing up in Music node:



Additionally, these podcasts don't seem to show up in the Podcasts node (they have an empty Artist field, so they should display at the top, but from the screenshot, they're missing) :



Is it *only* the Genre that determines whether a file shows up in Music or Podcasts?

[Lowlander]

It only works if you tag Genre with Podcast prior to their first scan into the Library. Afterwards you should be able to achieve the same by changing Type in the Properties window to Podcast.

[caffeine]

That worked, thank you.

One last question. When you change the "Type", do you modify a field in the mp3's metadata? Or is this strictly a property kept tack of in MM's library database?

[Lowlander]

This is only a MediaMonkey database value. It is set on first scan and after that can be changed by the user.