Re: [Banshee-List] Can't see podcasts on my android

[Nick Dokos <ndokos gmail com>]

John Gregg <johnrgregg comcast net> writes:

> I am running banshee 2.6.1 on a laptop running Ubuntu 13.04
>
> When I buy music from Amazon, it takes the form of mp3 files, that I
> can import into my music library using banshee. When I then sync to my
> ipod or android phone, it shows up just fine. In particular, when I go
> to my phone and run the "Music" app that came with it, I see my music
> and can play it to my heart's content.
>
> However, when I go to a web site that contains mp3 files that happen
> to consist not of music, but of guys talking, the same process
> fails. I download the mp3, and import it into my main music library
> using banshee as always. It shows up there, and I can play it on my
> laptop by clicking the green "play" arrow with the "song" (actually
> guys talking) highlighted. So far, so good. However, when I drag the
> "song" from my main music library to the "32 GB Volume" that is my
> android phone, banshee puts it not in the "Music" folder like all the
> other mp3s, but in a "Podcasts" folder. I can see it on the phone from
> within banshee, and even play it on my laptop from the phone within
> banshee with the phone hooked up through the USB cable, but I can't
> see the "song" on the phone itself. The "Music" app does not show it
> in any of its many menus, and the podcast app (beyondpod) seems to
> know nothing about it.
>
> What is the real difference to a digital device between an mp3 file
> that is a song and one that is a "podcast"? As far as I can tell, the
> word "podcast" only means "audio file I will sadistically refuse to
> let you hear". Why does banshee treat this mp3 file differently from
> actual songs that are mp3 files? If the guys in my podcast had been
> talking slightly more melodically, would banshee have thought of it as
> music and put it in the right place on my phone and thus let me hear
> it?

My entirely uneducated guess would be that the mp3 file is tagged
somehow, and banshee interprets the tag to figure out that this is
a podcast and not a music track in order to put it in the "right"
category. If this is true, you can probably edit the tags with an
editor like ``easytag'' and make it look like music.

-- 
Nick