There are a few issues here. The first is the physical locations of the podcasts and the second is the display/sort in iTunes.
The physical placement is easy to fix if you wish but I'm going to assume based on your email that that is not what you are interested in.
iTunes sorts podcasts within a given 'series' by release date. This is the primary sort.
If your podcasts are not yet in iTunes, we'll have to add them. As you're concerned about the sorting I'm going to assume they are already in. I'm going to forget about linking for now.
First off make sure you have the following settings enabled in Yate:
- Preferences - File List
- Do not enforce formatting of the Year field (should be checked) (only required if you podcasts are MPEG-4 files...m4a, etc.).
- Preferences - iTunes - Auto Export
- Media Kind (should be checked). This is not mandatory but will eliminate the need to export manually to iTunes.
Set the Yate Open Mode (File menu) to: PlayList Mode, Add to the File List, Do not process Sub folders, Do not auto link to iTunes
In iTunes drag all the items in a single podcast to Yate's main File List area. You can do this with successive drags if you so desire. When all the files are in, select them all.
- On Yate's Info editing panel:
- set the Album field to the name of the podcast.
- It is a good idea to set the Genre to Podcast. This is not mandatory but iTunes seems to like it.
- on Yate's Audio editing panel:
- set the Media Type field to Podcast
- on Yate's URLs editing panel:
- set the Podcast URL field to the desired URL.
Now here's the tricky one. If your podcasts are MPEG-4 files (m4a, mp4, etc) iTunes will read the Release Date from the Year field on the Info editing panel. If the files are mp3s, iTunes reads the metadata from the Release Time field on the More Info editing panel.
If you save the files in Yate, iTunes will be updated. The files should all be grouped under the same 'Album' name. The display order depends on the effective release date metadata. That is the primary sort. It seems that iTunes uses the Track number as a secondary sort (however iTunes does not let you change the sort order based on it). In theory an empty release time should trigger the track sort.
You can make yourself a Custom podcast editing panel which groups all of the relevant fields on a single panel so that you do not have to keep changing the editing panels.
Hopefully this makes sense and helps.
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