George Hrab, in his Geologic Podcast, recently released a track through the mechanism of his podcast. Converting this to a music file in my iTunes was not an obvious process.
This problem is also discussed here, and a solution is given. I found a slightly different mechanism that worked for me.
After upgrading to iTunes 8 (currently 8.0.2), I found a menu item entitled Create AAC version when I right clicked on the item. Sure enough, selecting this menu option creates an AAC media file in the iTunes music category. Problem solved!
You should, however, be aware of the fact that there can be a loss of quality when you convert an iTunes track from one compressed format to another. There is more about this problem here. I didn’t notice any sound degradation, but the podcasted MP3 format was not exceptional to start with.
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