Podcasters - Please use consistent tags

Okay, this is driving me nuts.  Many podcasters don't use consistent tags.  Their various episodes all have different tags for Artist, Album, and Genre.  If I find a pocast I like and download the past year's worth of podcasts, they are all scattered throughout my MP3 player and I have a terrible time finding them all buried among my 5000 tracks of music.

Eweek is particularly bad at this.  They have a variety of podcasts, such as Cyber Cynic and Testrun.  No two podcasts seem to have the same tags.  One Testrun podcast has an analyst's name as the artist, the next has EWeek, and the next has Testrun.  Again, the genre is set different for each.

And Genre's - oh what a mess this is for almost every podcaster.  In an ideal world, all podcasts would use some Genre standards.  I vote for something like:

  • Talk
  • Talk:Sports
  • Talk:Comedy
  • Talk:News
  • Talk:Science and Nature
  • Talk:Technology

And so on.  This way, I know to go to the "Talk" group of Genre's to find my podcasts.