I recently downloaded iTunes 4.9 and got involved in the whole podcasting craze.
Soon after, I noticed that the mp3's that I got from the podcasts were exhibiting
the same 'bookmarking' feature that audiobooks have in iTunes. That is, if you select
another song while one is playing and then you go back to your original song, it starts
playing again where it was -- it remembers where it left off. I don't quite like this feature
for my normal songs, so I went looking for an answer and found one here:
![]() A new ID3 Frame ID tag was introduced: PCST (or PCS) This is completely undefined according to the ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 standards. It would seem that iTunes introduces it somewhere along the way with podcasts. The presence of the tag has these effects:
Moreover, with the use of the [user defined] WFED and TGID tags, information about the podcast and where the mp3 came from is stored in the header. I don't happen to like the 'bookmarking' feature in my normal mp3's, so I decided to write a small application to remove the tags that iTunes introduced. It just zero's out those tags, thus removing all references to it being from a podcast and iTunes no longer uses 'bookmarking' on the file. Source: Binary: CHANGES: Usage: Tested on OSX, Windows and Linux * Thanks to david and gary who pointed out that v1.0 sometimes made iTunes not recognize all the id3 tags after conversion. contact: fixid3tag@pixeltree.org |