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iPod Tip #14
This tip is for the iPod with video.
When you buy Music Videos, TV Shows, and Movies from the iTunes Music Store the purchased videos will download into iTunes special Videos playlist.
When you sync your iPod with video and look inside the Videos menu on your iPod you will see the following choices:
Video Playlists
Movies
Music Videos
TV Shows
Video Podcasts
Video Settings
You can easily add your own videos to iTunes. You may find that Music Videos you get from the Internet and add to your iTunes Library, will probably just show up in the “Movies” list on your iPod. Here is how you get “Music Videos” to show up in the “Music Videos” list on your iPod.
Add your “Music Video” you converted to your iTunes Library, File -> Add to Library
Your video should now show up in the special playlist in iTunes called “Videos”.
ID3 Tags
Next, add the ID3 tags so you will have Title, Album, etc. Using iTunes to do this is easy. Highlight the audio file in the iTunes Library, and Control + mouse click (right click for you multi-buton mouse users) and choose Get Info. Fill out the information adding the title, artist, genre, etc.
Under the Options tab in the ID3 Tag you will find a field for Video Kind. Just change it from Movie to Music Video.
iTunes 6.02 now allows you to also change the Video Kind located under the Option Menu to include TV Shows. Before this release you where only allowed to change it to either Movie or Music Video. Only TV Shows bought from iTunes Music Store came with the Video Kind set to TV Shows.
Now when you sync your iPod video the Music Videos you added to iTunes will show up in the correct place.
The advantage of getting all your Music Videos to show up in the correct list is when playing them back you can have a random playback of all your Music Videos. When playing videos back on your iPod video from the “Movies” menu, you do not get continuous play. It is a one at a time action.
Note: You can not change this setting on videos purchased from the iTunes Music Store.
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What do you do for “TV Shows” that option doesn’t even appear in video kind.
Rich,
This is true. TV Shows purchased from iTMS has this “locked” down. I have not figured out how to edit this yet. I bet there may be a way. But I would want not to break anything in iTunes ID3 tags doing it.
Anyone else have any ideas?
Stephen Antonucci
u can just get the new version of itunes (6.02) and it lets u have the option to organize videos into tv shows section too