Can I edit the “Release Date” field of podcasts in iTunes? My workaround for iTunes automatically assigning hollow star ratings to new podcast episodes has an unfortunate side-effect: after dragging the podcast files back into iTunes, they not longer have their “Release Date” field populated, meaning they can’t be sorted in release date order. (Which gives my tiny little mind the heebie-jeebies.)

I can figure out what the release date was for these podcasts, but iTunes won’t let me amend this field via the UI.

Is there any way I can edit the value of this field?
Best I can tell, the answer is a resounding “no” — at least without deleting your iTunes Library .itl file.