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iPad is not showing TV Show titles in Video

This is a new one for me.

I've imported some MP4 files into iTunes that I want to be seen in iTunes and iPad as TV Shows. For all the MP4 entries in question I have set in Get Info:
- Options | Media Kind: TV Show
- Video | Show, Season Number, Episode Number
- Info | Name, Artist, Album Artist, Album

The videos play fine and show up in a playlist I have (via the iPod app). However, in Videos, I only see a thumbnail and no Text of any kind. If I click the thumbnail, I see a list of episodes but I only see the "Info | Name" - never any of the other information I've entered... to get around that I gave each of the Episodes their own name (i.e. Show Name 01, Show Name 02) but otherwise, I'd never know which episode was which.

I'm at a loss and the only two web pages I've seen on this involve iTunes 7; I'm on iTunes 9.1 and I did everything I can think of to have the meta data show up.

Thanks!

Core 2 Duo, Windows 7, iPad 64GB with iTunes 9.1

Posted on Apr 7, 2010 10:28 PM

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Posted on Apr 7, 2010 11:53 PM

I'm having the exact same issue. I can't tell which show is which sometimes depending on how distinctive the thumbnail is.
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Jul 10, 2010 8:03 AM in response to randyrants

Ugh... This is driving me nuts now that I'm finally putting some shows on my ipad.

I've trie adding the show title just about everywhere I can & it made no difference. This must be a limitation (and seemingly easy to fix) of the Video app.

Hopefully it gets fixed sooner rather than later, and we don't have to wait for iOs4 this fall...

Aug 1, 2010 12:33 PM in response to pjb904

Having the same problem, and was hoping to find a solution on the forums, but have not had much luck. Spent far too much time trying to figure this out and actually thought I had a few times, but when I tired to repeat a step that appeared to work to an group of shows it didn't work.

I guess my work around will be creating photoshop files with show info on them and place them in the artwork field.

Love my iPad, but hate the video app. Hope iOS4 solves this issue.

iPad is not showing TV Show titles in Video

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