I stream all my tv shows/movies from my mac to my apple tv via the computers app and home sharing, since the update yesterday, all my tv shows series numbers appear in the wrong order, they finally condensed the tv shows so you dont have a seperate line for every series, which is great, but my shows are appearing like season 4, 6, 2, 3, 1, 7 etc
anybody else having this problem??
Apple TV (4th generation), tvOS 9.2
I had the exact same problem, but I was able to fix it. It is your release dates. I don't know if you are dealing with shows that you have ripped from your DVD collection or ones that you have purchased from iTunes. I'll tell you what I did to mine to fix it. In my instance, the show was Star Trek Voyager. Two of the seasons had bonus features on the DVD. When I ripped them and edited them in Subler before adding them to iTunes, I put in the original air dates for all of the episodes in all seven seasons. But since the bonus features never aired, I put their release date as the release date of the DVD set. So when I went into the Apple TV, those two seasons were at the top, because the bonus features in those seasons had a more recent release date then even the last show of the last season. I hope that makes sense. When you figure out which shows are messing you up, you can edit them in Subler, which is a free program for Windows or Mac, or you can just edit the release dates in iTunes. Let me know if this works out for you.
By the way, it only takes one episode in that season to make the entire season out of order in the season list. I made the bonus features release date the same as the last episode of the seasons.
Not tested this aspect yet but grouping of TV Shows will return functionality lost since AppleTV 2, a shame if it's been implemented badly.
There was also an iTunes update - have you all done that? Probably won't be the cause but you never know.
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I Am also having the same issue but I am on the original tvos9.0.1
also my Apple TV 3 when using computers would open to the first unwatched episode, this is not the case with my new Apple TV 4, it just opens to the top of the list.
now I am noticing the wrong order on several shows I am unsure why. I have deleted the shows and added them again, restarting the computer, restarting iTunes, restarting the Apple TV ... Changed from wireless to wired connection...
this is annoying I like my shows and items i have added for streaming to be in the correct order and I don't like to have to search through all items to find the episode I haven't watched, when it use to just take me to it.
so it is not just the new tvOS 9.2 it has been there since 9.0.1....
I installed the latest iTunes and OSX updates last night, restarted, and still had the same problem. I noticed my Apple TV 3 does not have this issue, so it does not seem to be a iTunes/OSX issue, although who knows.
I like the grouping functionality, should have always been that way. Just wish it put the seasons in the right order, or in the seasons at all.
Yeah, everything was so perfect when i saw they had finally grouped the series, but when i click onto the show, its like, season 7, season 3, season 1, season 4 etc etc 😟 run out of ideas on how to fix it, starting to think the only fix would be to do away with seasons and just have episode numbers, but then il have shows with like, episode 3000 etc 😟
Yes! thanks you, this worked, only problem is that like in music app on iphone, it lists the newest ones first, so, ive got series 10,9,8,7 etc, but its still 100x better than it was, thanks so much, but if you know how to list by older dates first let me know 🙂
I'm pretty sure that's by design, I don't think you can change it. I thought it was terrible at first too, but then I realized that the majority of the time I'm watching the newest episode, so it actually makes it easier to get to.
Or you could just change one episode to 2016 for season 1, one in season 2 to 2015, and so on. I wouldn't do it though because I'm just a stickler for authenticity. I went through almost 1000 cartoons from the 20s to the 60s just to add release dates. Lol
Quckdraw08 This worked for me! Glad to see Apple put the grouping back in but the seasons were out of order so I put release dates in iTunes for each season (1998, 1999, 2000 etc) and now they’re in order, thanks quickdraw08!
Im a box set binge watcher, so i always start from the top, but now i guess il be starting from the bottom 🙂 , got thousands of episodes to date when i get home from work now 😁i could easily just give each series a date but my ocd wouldnt allow that 😁
Im ridiculously anal when it comes to these things 😁 playlist just wouldnt be the same lol, i did consider just doing away with seasons and have huge numbers of episodes but im going with the realease date thing, although its taking forever because of the 'updating tags' that we all love so much, so im just listing entire seasons by the date of the first ep of that season
I am having the exact same issue. I posted about it here: Tvos 9.2 Home Sharing - Tv Shows.
I have had no response. I don't know if this is an unintended consequence of 9.2 or some other bug.
Exact same issue here. Hoping for a fix soon, because adjusting metadata doesn't seem to help, and it's affecting both iTunes-purchased tv shows as well as others.
Been waiting so long for it to be grouped, takes forever to scroll when you have alot of tv shows, just a shame it wasnt implemented well without fixing this bug
So your TV shows are sorted alphabetically but when you open one, the seasons are not in order? Is that right?
Tv shows appearing in wrong order
