Duplicate TV Shows on iOS 5 devices

Hi,

I am having the same problem. Films are fine, no duplicates - however, TV Shows when browsing from an iOS 5 device are a complete mess. Duplicates shown everywhere, and many series missing. From my PC or AppleTV, the series are fine, no duplicates, all showing, all in order. A fix to this would be amazing. I also hate how they have went mad with artwork on Videos and Music. I miss the old fashioned iPod lists that were simple and quick to browse through. I think apple messed up here 😟

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks

Same Problem here. Iphone4 iOS5. Tv-shows are sorted without any sense, only 1/3 ist displayed the rest is missing and the once which are shown are duplicated many times.

I have an issue too. In itunes, all my album covers are as they should be and were ok on iphone 4 before iOS5 update. Now, on my iphone, I have the same album cover for say 7 different albums/artists and the "cover flow" (if that's what its still called) is messed up. The music is all still ok but I now can be listening to a Coldplay album with a Counting Crows cover, the same cover which is also displayed for say Kings of Leon and other artists. Any Ideas please?

Just sorted my issue, unchecked "sync entire music library" and with nothing checked, did a sync to strip all music off the iphone. Then went back to check "sync entire music library" and repeated a sync and the issue is resolved. Hope this helps others.

I don't think this is the same problem. We are not syncing our library to the iPad, we are sharing it, and therefore there is no sync and there is no option to check or uncheck songs.

I am suffering from the same problem described in the OP. The really irritating bit is that I have been using homesharing on the iPad for over a year with no problems. Since updating to iOS5 on release day, tv show sharing has been broken. As described above, multiple instances of the same show/season (upwards of 5 duplicates) Each instance works in it's own right as a link to those episodes. More importantly, only some of my TV Shows are showing. In my case, it only gets to the very first shows in 'B'.

I have been using Homesharing for a long time, on iPad, iPhone, iTV(1) and for all the various members of my family on their respective computers. In most of these situations it still works fine. Even on the iPhone on iOS5 it works as well (possibly even better) as it ever did. This problem is isolated to the iPad, and I would guess, large librarys.

Come on Apple, Fix it! In most other respects a great update, but the removal of multitouch gestures, and breaking homeshare are a huge step backwards for the iPad.

just to update, the problem seems to be spreading - my Films library has been hit with another problem. Artwork is duplicating itself across multiple films. unlike the TV Shows, the artwork doesnt actually depict what film it is representing. for example, the artwork for the first film in my library is Due Date, but when i open the video, it plays Angels and Demons, the first video in my library (as it should). this is beoynd a joke now

I have the same problem with Home Sharing. TV shows grouped correctly into seasons within iTunes show up grouped within ATV, but kind of un-grouped within iPad and iPhone (iOS5), with repeat names and artwork. For example season X with 10 episodes within it within iTunes, shows up on my iPad as season X, but 10 times - and each time I can select the folder/season and then see the 10 episodes ! A complete mess. Even worse, half my TV shows don't even show up at all on the iPad. Same problem to a lesser extent with iPhone 4 - lots of duplicates, but at least I get all the seasons for different shows actually being listed.

Confirming this; there's another thread describing the exact same problem as well. I'm running a first gen iPad (updated to iOS5 on release day) and have the main library on a Windows 7 PC.

The other threads seem to imply this is a 'sorting' issue based on the Episode ID's - however I dont feel like running through all my TV shows and changing the ID's just to half-fix this.

Confirmed that this is an issue on both iPad and iPhones with different level of disorganization - itunes and ATV2 work fine

Just a +1 to say I am also experiencing this problem. Likewise it only started after updating my ipad2 to ios5.

Same happening here. Tried replacing my iTunes Library file and it seemed to work at first, but after I synced, same issue. Stream to me is working fine, why not Videos app?

Many of the suggestions in my article on Grouping tracks into albums apply to TV Shows. In particular setting common Album and Album Artist values may help. Season No. should be left blank if you want multiple seasons under one cover and Episode IDs should be alphabetically ordered using a pattern like s01e01 or s01e001. Ideally use overall Episode numbers rather than starting again at one for each new season. Disc # should correspond to Season # and Track # can match Episode #.

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