How can I make a mixed audio/video playlist?

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How can I make a mixed audio/video playlist?

I would like to make a playlist of music videos. iTunes seems to consider "music videos" as a separate type than video files. The problem is that some of my music videos are detected by iTunes as formal "music videos" while others are detected as "movies". While I can add them all to the same playlist, I can only play the playlist as one of the two types, and it will ignore the files of the other type. For example, if I access the playlist through my music playlists on my iPhone, it will only play the music videos that iTunes thinks are actual "music videos" and will not play the ones that iTunes thinks are "movies". Same problem in the opposite direction if I play the playlist through the movie/video interface.

How can I get them all to play together? They are ALL videos, and all in the same format (.mp4), so I'm not sure why iTunes is so confused.

iPhone 4, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Dec 4, 2012 3:02 PM

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bobthe Author

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Dec 6, 2012 8:51 AM in response to bobthe

Well, good news and bad news. I found out how to tell iTunes that all my music videos are, in fact, actual "music videos" and categorize them as such. In the "Get Info" screen for a track, there is a dropdown selector where you can pick the "meta" type, such as "Music Video", "Home Video", "Movie", "TV Show", etc. This allows iTunes and iOS to think they are all music videos and play them in the same list.

Unfortunately, this is not compatable with my third party device, which is now refusing to play my music videos in a playlist and will only play them one at a time (in a single-track infinite loop no less). Very frustrating!

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