iTunes - Won't Let Me Classify Something as a TV Show?

[astrostu]

I'm one of the iPod Touch orderers who's trying to convert lots of DVDs over to a Touch-compatable format while waiting for it to be shipped. I've done several movies and imported them into iTunes perfectly fine, they show up in my "MOVIES" category. But I did some TV shows today and they also will only go in my "MOVIES" category - I can't drag them over to the "TV SHOWS."

What gives? Is there a way around this? Or is this Apple's way of saying, "Only TV shows that we have blessed and were downloaded through our service are worthy of being in this category?"

 

[siurpeeman]

get the song info, and you can select what type of video file (tv show, movie, etc.) under the video pane.

 

[Wolfpup]

Thanks for that info siurpeeman. I had no idea you could change that, just assumed anything you create yourself ended up in movies.

 

[iJawn108]

Thanks for that info siurpeeman. I had no idea you could change that, just assumed anything you create yourself ended up in movies.

wow i didnt know that either thank you so much slurpeeman

 

[astrostu]

Thanks, that did it! It's still annoying there's an extra step, but at least there's a way around it.

 

[rockstarjoe]

Doug's Applescripts has a fantastic iTunes script that does this automatically for large batches of TV shows. It is called something like Set Video Kind. It lets your choose a batch of videos and make them tv shows or movies, add season number and episode number and show name, all in one swoop!