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July 01, 2006

newTunes for iTunes (Podcast Category Changes)

Apple has launched a streamlined new categorization scheme for podcasts listed in the iTunes Music Store. Somebody wasn't paying attention to our "don't launch changes on a Friday before a holiday" policy, but we'll let it slide this time. We've carved out some room between sleeping and World Cup viewing this US holiday weekend to update our trusty SmartCast service in support of these changes. Below are the set of old --> new category mappings based on the updated category scheme defined by Apple. We have auto-updated all the podcasts in FeedBurner to validate to the new category scheme (and validate through the already updated Feed Validator). If you want to tweak these adjustments to your podcast categories, simply log into your FeedBurner account and visit the "Optimize" tab to access the SmartCast feature.

Any questions about the new categorization scheme? Those should go to Apple. These changes were rolled into production and publicly announced by Apple on Friday; we have tried to react to the change as quickly as possible for our podcasters.

Any compliments about our SmartCast feature? Direct those to our Support Forums or email feedback at feedburner dot com.

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Posted by Dick at 10:59 PM
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Unless I'm missing something, each time you say "Technology|Tech News", you mean "Technology|IT News"?

Off topic, but for autodiscovery aware tools, this blog presents users with a choice of two feeds, both of them the same. Not just two feeds in different formats with the same data, but the very same URL. It is probably worth removing one of the links.

Posted by: Sam Ruby | July 2, 2006 07:29 AM

Hey Sam, thanks for the heads up on both issues. We'll nail down the Tech/IT News issue, and should have now fixed the redundant auto-discovery issue. Appreciate the comment.

Posted by: Dick Costolo | July 2, 2006 02:34 PM

Are the international sections still divided up among languages? or are they all lumped together now?

Posted by: Samuel | July 3, 2006 03:26 PM

Samuel, the international/language categories have been removed from the new iTunes categorization scheme.

Posted by: Dick Costolo | July 3, 2006 03:48 PM

Thanks so much for being so on the ball on this one. I knew I could count on you guys to make this 'enhancement' go smoothly!!!!

Posted by: rdolishny | July 4, 2006 02:53 PM

The old categories had "Religion & Spirituality|Philosophy", but it does not exist in the new list. Any idea where that should be converted to?

[Editor's note: good question mr. Jim. There's not an obvious mapping for that, so you'll have to pick whatever looks best to you]

Posted by: Mr. Jim | July 8, 2006 02:36 PM

Thank you. I was worried but once again FeedBurner takes care of my problems. What's next?

Posted by: GuyInATie.com | July 8, 2006 03:32 PM

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July 01, 2006

newTunes for iTunes (Podcast Category Changes)

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