Making video show as TV shows in iTunes

LastLine · Feb 10, 2007, 07:54 AM

So I remember doing this in the past but I can't think for the life of me how.

I've got iSquint to convert my AVI's through to the appropriate video format, but I think it just sets them as movies. I remember having another piece of software in the past that made them into "TV Shows" in iTunes, can anyone help a guy out here? Don't necessarily need a link so much as a name.

Axegrinder · Feb 10, 2007, 08:13 AM

All I do is open iTunes, select the "movies" heading under "library", then drag my mp4 file from finder onto the window in iTunes. When it's finished copying the file in to iTunes, you get a liitle preview of the movie. Right-click, Get Info. Under the video tab change video from movie to TV Show. Now it appears under TV Shows and is available from Front-Row.

net26 · Feb 10, 2007, 08:14 AM

lostify

mkrishnan · Feb 10, 2007, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Axegrinder

All I do is open iTunes, select the "movies" heading under "library", then drag my mp4 file from finder onto the window in iTunes. When it's finished copying the file in to iTunes, you get a liitle preview of the movie. Right-click, Get Info. Under the video tab change video from movie to TV Show. Now it appears under TV Shows and is available from Front-Row.

I do the same... the only irritating thing about this process is that fields like the name of the TV show are not auto-complete, which is already in most places in iTunes and shouldn't be hard to implement. Not every field, but at least the show name, which repeats a lot. But otherwise, it just takes a few seconds to make this change after iSquint has dumped the video in iTunes.

LastLine · Feb 10, 2007, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by net26

lostify

Actually that might just be the one I had in mind....

*googles the link and goes to check*

GanjaManja · Mar 15, 2007, 11:43 PM

This Script sets the video type to whatever you want. You can select multiple videos too!
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/script...kindofselected

Put it in your [Home]/Library/iTunes/Scripts folder.

Krevnik · Mar 16, 2007, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by LastLine

Actually that might just be the one I had in mind....

*googles the link and goes to check*

I also vote for Lostify. iTunes only 'temporarily' sets the flag in its own database, so if you have to restore your library from a backup, you lose a lot of these flags. This is not the case if you tagged it using Lostify.

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LastLine macrumors 65816 Join Date: Aug 2005	Making video show as TV shows in iTunes So I remember doing this in the past but I can't think for the life of me how. I've got iSquint to convert my AVI's through to the appropriate video format, but I think it just sets them as movies. I remember having another piece of software in the past that made them into "TV Shows" in iTunes, can anyone help a guy out here? Don't necessarily need a link so much as a name.
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Axegrinder macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Preston	All I do is open iTunes, select the "movies" heading under "library", then drag my mp4 file from finder onto the window in iTunes. When it's finished copying the file in to iTunes, you get a liitle preview of the movie. Right-click, Get Info. Under the video tab change video from movie to TV Show. Now it appears under TV Shows and is available from Front-Row. __________________ "How'd you know I was looking at you, if you weren't looking at me?" - Mr Bungle
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net26 macrumors member Join Date: Aug 2006	lostify __________________ *in varietate concordia
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Mar 15, 2007, 11:43 PM	#6
GanjaManja macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2007	Doug's Applescript This Script sets the video type to whatever you want. You can select multiple videos too! http://dougscripts.com/itunes/script...kindofselected Put it in your [Home]/Library/iTunes/Scripts folder.
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