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Originally Posted by jgudema
Based on the original positing, I was able to add audio books to my zune as podcasts to have the bookmarking feature. It took some trial and error - I am not even sure how I did it but every time I download something new, I change the genre to Podcast immediately (before it is added to my collection), and drag and drop it in. This works.
But, now i am trying to put the same audiobooks/lectures into my regular collection for future listening. A big challenge. Once it is listened to as a podcast, it is automatically deleted. Now, even after changing the Genre back to something else than Podcast, and trying to drop in it, or sync it - zune software still won't recognize the file.
The only solution I came up with is to change the name of the file and then drop it in. This didn't get it back into my collection - at actually appears as a podcast again.
This is a really frustrating stuff!
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I had the exact same problem and stumbled on the solution. The zune application added a tag to the MP3 file, so renaming will do you no good. If you examine the file with "mp3tag" and look at the "Extended Tags", you'll see that the zune software added a tag to the mp3 file called (get this) ITUNESPODCAST which is set to a value of 1. Delete the tag (or set it to 0) and you'll be good to go. I couldn't find a way to see the tag with the Zune software or WMP11.
To keep your zune from deleting the podcast (if you don't really want to put it in your music collection), in the Zune software, set the "series settings" to "keep all episodes" and "Sync all episodes". Hopefully, that will solve your other problem.