iTunes 12 will not allow movies to be added

you're not alone it's happening to me toowhat the h**l is going on apple I don't know and you can't roll back iOS that's stupid used be able to drag and drop videos in to iTunes now you can't even do that what the h**l Apple are you doing 😠 ever since they opened this up for developers and third-party apps has been so buggy I'm very disappointed in apple

running Windows 10 using new version of iTunes for my iPhone 7 plus there's a flaw in the new version of iTunes

come on Apple get your stuff together

Same issue here...I've been adding tv shows and movies (encoded using Handbrake) to iTunes for the past few days. It worked fine until I upgraded to Yosemite and iTunes 12. Drag and drop doesn't work, Add To Library doesn't work either. Nothing shows up.

This is fu****g B.S. they better change/fix this or there's going to be TONS of unhappy people, there is no reason to not let people add MP4's to iTunes, i bought the iPhone 6+ to watch my shows on.........i am ******

Having the same problem!

Before the update I have been adding all my .mp4 and .m4v files in iTunes. Now some of them do not get added!!! VERY FRUSTRATING!

Also some of my movies won't take artwork that I am trying to add! Ive tried everything I know to get it to work, but still won't work. Ive made copies of the artwork on my desktop and then tried adding by "add artwork" - doesnt work - copy and paste - doesn't work - only on some of the files

others accept just fine!

Im not liking this! Ive tried re-converting to .mp4 and still nothing! Its getting old!!!

I'd like to get these movies in iTunes so I can watch on my AppleTV without having to airplay - cuz that lags like crazy!

HELP!!!

Same problem, all my movies used to import into the Home movies section, but it's gone now and every time I try to add a new one it just doesn't go anywhere now. If they don't fix this it's going to be a deal breaker for me. I'l find some other way to stream my media to my TV.

Fixed my problem it was a file issue that wasn't jiving with itunes

can you please let us know what you did to solve your problem?

Thanks - It would be nice to have an apple worker help us out

If any of us want Apple to respond, I would suggest going to the Contact Us link, navigate to the iTunes icon and submit a bug report on iTunes 12.

I have no solution at this time, the problem still exists for me.

I actually found my .mp4 - it was added to Movies > Home Videos

Used the drag and drop method

I am not sure if this will work for anyone else...but mine just started working. I have a shared disk on my network that I was sharing them from - but nothing after the upgrade same as you all - suddenly quicktime player wanted to open them and iTunes having the same symptoms as posted here. Anyway, I opened a movie.m4v in Quicktime Player and then did File>Export>IPad,iPhone,iPod Touch and the whole shebang.... as soon as this started processing, iTunes refreshed, and suddenly my entire library - that I had been repeatedly trying to import - shows up...good to go works everywhere. Hope this works for someone...

I believe the issue has now been solved - Apple released iTunes 12.0.1.26 yesterday.

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Now all appears to be working as they had, with the only exception being the user interface changes.

So, new imported movies will mostly end up in Home Videos unless their info regarding iTunes had been previously changed. No more Unknown Genre then make changes.

I sat on the phone with Apple for about an hour figured out the problem, it's a corrupt file or bug in iOS, we backed my phone up and set the phone as new.....and put everything back on from the computer works fine again

Is Apple f***ing kidding or what? Has QA died along with Steve Jobs?

How can you release a new iTunes version and not check if adding songs and movies works properly? I use iTunes as a library for all my music and movies and play them via two Apple TV's. I have spent a fortune buying Apple products and now I can't even expand my library anymore.

I have upgraded all my software to the latest versions (IOS 8.1, iTunes 12.0.1.26 and OS X Yosemite) and it is simply impossible to add movies to my library.

I just can't believe this s**t. Thank you Apple, a job well done.

I discovered this to be my problem as well. iTunes appears to add all of my movies ripped from DVDs as Home Movies by default. What is the drag and drop method? I'm planning to use an Apple Script from Doug's Apple Scripts to change the file kind to Movie. If there's and easier way, I'd love to hear it. One thing I have noticed, in spite of changing the kind to Movie, and having the movie appear in the Movies section of iTunes the movie file itself remains in the Home Movies folder in the Finder. There is no Movies folder at all.

Yes, I found the same thing...iTunes 12 is adding movies and tv shows to the Home Movies section. The process for adding tv shows and movies is pretty ridiculous compared to what it used to be. I had to find the tv shows/movies in the Home Movies section, then highlight them all and use the Get Info command to change them to a TV SHOW...now, you used to have the option of also adding the shows name and season here, but alas, Apple has removed that option. Now you must first wait for iTunes to update all the items, THEN go back and highlight them again and add the tv show name and the season number....kind of a pain in the ***.

I also noticed that using the OPTION+Drop method now makes iTunes copy every item into a new folder, instead of just adding the alias and using the current location of the file. Now you simply drag and drop the items and it creates an alias. Gotta love Apple for changing things just for the fact of changing them...