Movie Genres

I have never used iTunes for movies, but if genre icons are anything like Album Artwork, then you should be able to load your own images into the appropriate tag in the Get Info dialogue.

iTunes contains images for the following movie genres:

Action
Classics
Comedy
Documentary
Drama
Holiday
Horror
Independent
Kids
Music
Romance
SciFi
ShortFilms
Sports
Thriller
Western

I don't know how to add others.

To see them, control-click on iTunes in your applications folder. Select "Show Package Contents".
Look in the resources folder in the contents folder to view the genre jpg images used by iTunes.

you can't add new 'genre' images. I'm tried it before. Not saying it won't change in the future though. 😉

Message was edited by: Peter Miller

with a bit of work in the iTunes directory you may be able to add 'new' genres (and corrosponding images), not recommended though; unless you know what you're doing in there.

If you really want to look into it though here's a tutorial.

http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/09/custom-genre-artwork-for-itune.htm l

Find the artwork you want in the proper shape. Label it "genre-xxxxM.jpg". (Replace xxxxx with the genre name you want. Drag it into the resources folder I mentioned above.

Click on the genres.plist file in the same folder. It will open in Text Edit.

Add the following for each genre you want to add:

<dict>
<key>matchString</key><string>xxxxx</string>
<key>resourceFile</key><string>genre-xxxxx.jpg</string>
<key>kind</key><string>movie</string>
</dict>

Use the tab key to align the new entry with the others, and save the file. You can insert the new entry between any of the original entries.

If you want an image for music genres, do the same thing, but do not put the "M" in the image title and do not add the "<key>kind</key><string>movie</string>" line in the .plist file entry.

Restart iTunes and enjoy your new images. Keep in mind that an iTunes update will replace all your hard work, save a copy of the new "resources" folder separate from your iTunes application.

Thanks for your question. Gave me a couple hours of work this afternoon. I found some good .jpg
files using Google Image Search.

FYI, David. I upgraded to iTunes 8.2 today. The .jpg images I had added to the resources folder remained there. All I had to to was update the genres.plist file since the one I had modified was replaced by the update.

Hi,

Does anyone know how to set a genre to a movie that I made?