Organizing MP4 Files

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Organizing MP4 Files

I have a bunch of MP4 files on my computer that I tried to add to my iTunes. They are video files of a TV show that I really like, however when I add them to my library they get filed under Movies rather than TV shows so I can't organize them like I want. I went on google to search this and people seemed to say that I could change the video type under the Video tab in Get Info, but I have downloaded the most recent version of iTunes and have not found that there is a panel to do that. I also tried dragging them into the TV shows section but that didn't work either. Does anyone know how I can change the location/type of these files? It'd make it possible to organize them, which I can't do right now

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Dell Inspiron 1720, Windows 7

Posted on Mar 19, 2011 6:42 AM

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turingtest2

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Mar 19, 2011 7:16 AM in response to elenoff

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.

Select one or more files you want to change, *Get Info.* then on the Options tab change the *Media Kind* to *TV Show*.

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elenoff Author

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Mar 19, 2011 7:34 AM in response to turingtest2

Thanks! That worked perfectly!

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elenoff Author

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Mar 19, 2011 8:32 AM in response to elenoff

I came up with a follow up question I was curious about and given how helpful people were on my first question, I wanted to open my thread back up.

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Mar 19, 2011 8:36 AM in response to elenoff

I had another question that I was curious about, and you were so helpful before that I was hoping maybe I could get some more help.

Now that I have my files under TV Shows and I have put them on my iPod, when I go to play them on my iPod it shows the title of each episode and underneath it says "Unknown Release Date"

Is there any way I can go into iTunes and enter the release date for each episode? I added the release date of the season as a whole as being 2010 but I know the date for each episode and could add that, or could I possibly get my iPod to not show that line that says unknown release date?

Thanks again

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turingtest2

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Mar 19, 2011 8:48 AM in response to elenoff

The Release Date can't be configured from iTunes, either using Get Info. or via the scripting interface. I believe it might be possible using an mp4 aware tag editor but I don't have one to recommend offhand.

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elenoff Author

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Mar 19, 2011 8:54 AM in response to turingtest2

so is there a way to make the release date unknown not appear on my ipod, to your knowledge?

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turingtest2

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Mar 19, 2011 9:01 AM in response to elenoff

Nope. The iPod interface isn't customizable.

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