Sort order on TV Show episodes

Here is what I found.

1. All my TV Show episodes have the Episode and Episode # properly populated on my iTunes Library. Ordered properly by Episode Number.
2. Open up the Videos app on the iPad (iOS 7) <-- Don't close it, keep looking at the behavior as you delete and transfer the episodes back to the iPad
3. All the episodes display scrambled. All episodes are displayed as Episode 0
4. Deleted all the episodes from the iPad. Video app show no episodes.
5. Transferred the episodes to the iPad again
6. All the episodes show the correct episode number and ordered correctly by episode number <-- Everything looks right
7. Reboot the iPad
8. Open up the Videos app on the iPad
9. All the episodes display scrambled AGAIN. All episodes are displayed as Episode 0

Conclusion - There must be a run time bug that prevents the Video App of reading the correct Episode number. How can the same App behave differently when you have just recently transferred your content to the iPad and after a device restart. Haven't tried to close the Video App only, without restarting the iPad.

I hope this helps Apple to investigate this issue, SO ANNOYING.

I deleted the tv shows i purchased then downloaded them again but they are still arranged alphabetically and not by episode. This problem is just for my ipad mini. I just recently bought the ipad4 and when i downloaded same tv shows on my new ipad4 they are arranged by episode and by volume which is really great. I tried everything for my ipad mini bit the problem persists- wont arrange by episode.

I have the same issue on my iPad 3. Doesn't matter how much metadata I put in my Archer episodes are all mixed up. I checked the episode number, track number and even the dates when they were released and nothing makes a difference. On iTunes and Apple TV, they are perfect, it's just on iPad.

Found a solution, at least for now. After using all sorts of Metadata apps, if I bulk select all episodes in the season and Get Info, then add the details to all the fields in the Sort By tab, this seems at least for now to make the episodes appear in order on the iPad.

That solution worked fine, until the next time I synced the iPad. Now, all the episodes are back out of order in my TVS how's on the iPad only. All are fine in iTunes, on the Apple TV and even my iPod.

Back to the drawing board.

I was having the same issue and frustration. After doing some experimenting, I figured out something that is working for me at least. The video player on the iPad appears to be sorting in the order episodes were downloaded. I had an entire season of shows (23 in all) that I downloaded all at once in iTunes from my purchase history. When I hit the download all icon in the season header, I noticed that iTunes queued the episodes up in alphabetical order. They were also sorted this way once I synced them onto my iPad. I then wiped the season from both the iPad and iTunes and downloaded shows again, this time individually in ordery by episode. When i synced this time to the iPad the episodes were in the correct order.

So, for me at least the iPad appears to be listing shows in whatever order they were downloaded. I hope this helps anyone else experiencing this issue.

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I have the same issue. I've also noticed that the episode number shows on the iPad immediately after sync, but later disappears (and then the order, not surprisingly, goes wrong). This seems to be affecting the iPad but now (so I've noticed) iTunes or Apple TV.

I added my track number to all the episodes on the info pad and they sort on iTunes properly, but on the iPad they are still out of sequence?

Did you delete them on the iPad and resync them?

They are actually not on the iPad but viewing them thru the shared library mode in iTunes.

Displays in proper sequence on iTunes but out of sequence in iPad.

Sorry about the predictive text on that previous post, **** iPad.

Basically everything on in iTunes and Apple TVs but iPad now back out of order after syncing with iTunes.