Q: Home Sharing TV Show folders/seasons mixed up after update to tvOS 9.2
After updating my Apple TV 4th generation box to 9.2, I discovered that TV Show folders have been added to the Home Sharing "My Computers" function. Love it! Been waiting a long time for it! However, the sorting criteria has changed and it is no longer sorting by Show Title, Season and Episode. There is some other metadata considerations being use and it is completely jumbling up my show collections:
Admittedly, I have about half of my TV collections have been ripped from DVDs purchased and metadata painstakingly added manually by myself. And as upsetting as it is for this effort to be thrown out, it would be helpful to know what metadata fields (existing or new) that the Apple TV engineers are drawing from to build their pages. Also, there is garbage metadata directly from the iTunes purchases of mine that are causing sorting issues as well. So it seems that I will have to clean that up in order to view content in a consistent order - at least through my home sharing. It doesn't seem unreasonable to utilize iTunes as a content management system for items not purchased through Apple. Any other "home brewers" and iTunes TV Show watchers having similar issues with the latest update and Home Sharing?
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Posted on Apr 10, 2016 9:29 AM
After some further investigation, here's what seems to have fixed it for me....
So I switched to the column browser and added a whole bunch of the fields that weren't there by default. (View, show by episode, then View again and select Column Browser).
The fields I found that corrected my problem were Album and for good measure, Artist. Just compare to those that are working correctly for you. Of course, these fields don't show up as a tag you can enter under a TV Show normally, so just switch the "Media Kind", under Options, to Music Video, add the missing tag data and then switch it back to TV Show and save.
By adding in the name of the Show, e.g. "The Big Bang Theory" as a bulk edit for the items appearing incorrectly, these were then shown as expected, when viewed on the ATV4.
I think this is the resurrection of an old issue. or perhaps just an old solution. If the ATV4 TVOS needs the Album tag to sort correctly, perhaps it ought to be available by default as an editable tag for TV Shows?
Hope that helps
Posted on Apr 11, 2016 7:32 AM

