Hi all,

I have what might a weird problem. Hopefully, I can explain it properly...

I'm using iTunes for organzing  my podcasts. I subscribed to a public feed from a particular service, and received (and kept) a bunch of
podcasts from that. Then the service switched to a personalized option which has a customizable feed, and I subscribed to that too.

Now I have two podcast feeds which are updated with much of the same material. I would just quit subscribing to the older one, but I have
the old podcast files which I would like to keep; the newer feed sends me the newest podcasts and I can't get the  old ones.

What I would like to do is consolidate the files from the two feeds, and subscribe to just one. 

Is there a way to move the files from the old feed into the directory where the files from the newer feed are kept, and have iTunes
recognize the change and update its lists accordingly. Or is there something else I would have to do?

TIA,
	-Mark

In article <6k0ng3hd27ig76fop4rmlfg4ruddb1uevl@4ax.com>,
 Cueball <blah@blah.org> wrote:

> What I would like to do is consolidate the files from the two feeds, and 
> subscribe to just one. 
> 
> Is there a way to move the files from the old feed into the directory where 
> the files from the newer feed are kept, and have iTunes
> recognize the change and update its lists accordingly. Or is there something 
> else I would have to do?

There is of course a built-in way of moving (organizing, consolidating, 
re-organizing) files that's been on the Mac from day one; that's 
immediately available; that's simple and intuitive, and yet also 
powerful; and that all of us know and are semi-expert with.  It's called 
the Finder.

Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge (and questions similar to 
yours have been the subject of numerous earlier threads), you can't 
organize your iTunes files using that approach -- and if you try, you're 
like to screw things up in iTunes, create additional duplicates, and so 
on.

Apparently you can only do what you want using iTunes own idiosyncratic 
approach, which is, unfortunately, rigid, idiosyncratic, and (again, to 
the best of my knowledge) not well documented anywhere.

[P.S. -- If I'm wrong on the above, I'll be delighted to hear it -- or 
rather, not just to hear that I'm wrong, but be pointed to accessible 
sources of information that will help me learn otherwise.]