Q: Apple TV television shows out of order?

Phoenixhiker wrote:

 

A similar problem on the iPad has been going on for a year where tv shows under shared iTunes libraries are out of order.

That is a slightly different (and just as annoying!) problem. But there is a work around, after a kind soul spent time in investigating the issue. Not ideal, especially if you have a large library, but it's something:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/16858079#16858079

Beggars belief why they can't get simple things like this working...

Once you have created a smartgroup as Phoenixhiker suggests, how do you get to the playlist from appleTV?

I was having the same sorting problems with my TV Shows after updating iTunes to 10.6 and my AppleTV.  I was able to fix the problems using the following steps:

1) Download iTune 10.5.3 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1426?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US). 

2) Installed the iTunes 10.5.3

3) Use TimeMachine to go back a couple days to restore the file: iTunes Library.itl

4) Launch iTunes and sort by "Show"

5) Go to your AppleTV

Problem fixed.  Hope this helps you all.

Todd in Plano, TX

A smart playlist, sorted on Episode ID, should do it. Once sorted right/option click on the playlist name and click Copy to Play Order.

(Not actually tested due to lack of relevant hardware)

tt2

"I actually prefer the older pre Apple TV OS 4 behavior, where you'd see something like this:

Show > Season > Episode

The "Show, Season # > Episode" behavior is what we've all been living with, and now it's all wrong."

Oh my god! You mean the device actually used to work like this and THEY DID AWAY WITH IT !!!! What idiot thought that was a good idea! I actually submitted a suggestion that they implement indexing by Show, Season not knowing it used to be there!

Given the latest update has just thrown out the sort order of everything I'm amazed at how low this product can go. I'm still waiting for a fix, sorry acknowledgement, of the home-sharing issue !

Apple TV has certainly changed my perception of the so called high quality Apple brand name.

Phoenixhiker wrote:

 

It will be interesting if this all works correctly with the new hardware coming out.

I suspect it won't. It runs the same software as the ATV2.

Ramma wrote:

 

Oh my god! You mean the device actually used to work like this and THEY DID AWAY WITH IT !!!! What idiot thought that was a good idea! I actually submitted a suggestion that they implement indexing by Show, Season not knowing it used to be there!

The Apple TV 2 has never worked like that. The original Apple TV did, but they basically rewrote the OS from scratch when the new one came out and never implemented this feature.

Having the same issue with shows being out of order.  Tried erasing my library from iTunes and re-adding all my shows.  It put everything in alphabetical order, but still orders the seasons in a stupid way.  For example

Season 1

Season 10

Season 2

Season 3 and so on.

Seriously, how does this kind of crap happen?  Is there no quality control at the apple corporation anymore?

Yes, that happens when you do this.

It's because it shows them in the order added and it adds them alphabetically. 10 therefore comes before 2.

Still, if it's anything like mine then I'm sure it's a lot better than before and when they release an update the. It should be back to normal.

Yes, this is painful.  Fail Apple- sad to say- you failed on this one. 

I also downgraded to 10.5.3 by exporting my library, uninstalling 10.6, installing 10.5.3, and importing my library.

You are incorrect.  You must be an apple employee.  First of all, if you delete the files and put them back in, it may or may not find the files. Apparently itunes puts tv files in different places. Sometimes in music, sometimes in tv shows, sometimes in movies.  Trying to find the 2000 tv shows I have and repopulating Itunes would be a Herculean task.  Quit covering for apple.  I for one am going to buy a ROKU.

Go buy a ROKU or GoogleTV