iPod Movie sorting issues

You can re-name them with a prefix to look like;

am1_american_pie
am2
am3

I have my starwars like this SW1, SW2, SW3...
and hanibal lector like; han1, han2, han3...

Yea, That's how it shows up on the ipod, frontrow, etc.

American Pie 1
American Pie 2
American Pie 3: The Wedding
American Pie 4: Band Camp
American Pie 5: The Naked Mile
American Pie 6: Beta House
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If your using a program like MetaX to tag all your movies with poster art, actors, genre etc there is also a sort field.

Keep the name of all the movies as they are are meant to be.
Example:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In iTunes its going to put them like this
Chamber, Goblet, Order, Prisoner, Sorcerer's

In MetaX under the sort field tag each movie with Harry Potter 1, 2, 3... and the name of the movie will be displayed correctly and in the order you specified.

iTunes has its own built in sort area but it doesn't write the data to the file and if you use the AppleTV the sort field in iTunes does not work when viewing your collection.

mrat93 said:

So you're saying there's no way to have it the way I want?
Is my best solution the following?:

1. American Pie 1
2. American Pie 2
3. American Pie 3: The Wedding
4. American Pie 4: Band Camp
5. American Pie 5: The Naked Mile
6. American Pie 6: Beta House

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Just open up your "get info" window on the movie and go to sorting. Type in the names you have there and it will sort based on the information in the sort field rather than the title of the movie.