[Fusion]

Has anyone heard or come up with a hack yet that will allow you to tag your own TV Shows in iTunes yet under the "Video Type" option tab? Right now it will only let you select Movie and Music Video.

Cheers

[Diggory Laycock]

hmm - perhaps you can set the meta-data via the shell instead - if iTunes doesn't let you.

Have you got any 'official' TV shows? if so what is listed if you mdls them?

edit - hmm never mind - I just tried setting one of my own videos to music video - and mdls found nothing - so it looks like that data is not set in the file itself - only in the iTunes DB.

it can be seen in the xml version of the DB.

e.g.

Code:
		<key>751</key>
		<dict>
....
			<key>Music Video</key><true/>
.....
		</dict>

and alas iTunes's AppleScript doesn't seem to expose that property:

- off topic edit

hmm - even more weird -- iTunes won't respond to AppleScript commands while its 'get info' window is open...

[Gordon Werner]

I tried copying all of the season information from an episode of Lost that I purchased ... into an episode of Firefly that I MP4'd ... and then when I reloaded iTunes ... none of the new information was present.

Changing the file to .m4v didn't work either ... but I might have missed something (it isn't easy editing a 27MB xml file

[Diggory Laycock]

No, no, the XML file is not read as data by iTunes - it's exported by iTunes as an open store of data for other apps.

iTunes reads its data from the binary 'iTunes Library' file.

[Fusion]

Hmm, so does that mean it is possible to set the data as a TV Show or not? I guess I didn't understand much of that.

[Philip J. Fry]

Probably not. I have all 4 seasons of Futurama and 3 seasons of Family Guy on the computer and they all have the 'Movie' tag.

[ignus_graius]

Originally Posted by Fusion

Has anyone heard or come up with a hack yet that will allow you to tag your own TV Shows in iTunes yet under the "Video Type" option tab? Right now it will only let you select Movie and Music Video.

Cheers

I found information concerning this topic here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=164710


If you add the "stik" atom and set the value to 0x0A, iTunes will let you change the type to TV Show.

I did this by tagging the video in iTunes as part of a compliation. This adds a "cpil" atom to the .m4v file, with a value of 0x01. I used a hex editor to change "cpil" to "stik" and the "01" to "0A". Once I did this I could set the type as "TV Show"

The only thing is that you also have to set the tv show name as well as the season and episode number. The tv show atom is tvsh and the season is tvsn. I can elaborate on what I've discovered if anyone's interested.

[shirre]

Hi,

I've been googling all over the place to find out how to do this. You are the first one I've come across who actually managed to do it. If you wouldn't mind walking me through the process I'd appreciate it greatly!

[izmirchu]

For those that don't want to jump through every hoop in the world, the command line tool AtomicParsley:

http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/

can set it a lot easier than in hex (which the author of AP put a warning about ignus's method). Even lets you clear a lyrics advisory.

[ignus_graius]

Definitely go with AP if you can. It involves a LOT less hassle. I was only using the hex editor method because I'm on a Windoze computer and didn't have the Atomic Parsely option.

[- - e r i k - -]

Couldn't all this information be used to create a super-simple tagging tool?

[ignus_graius]

You'd think so.

I've used Tag&Rename in the past for tagging songs, but iTunes videos weren't available then.

[Diggory Laycock]

For those who want a GUI to AtomicParsley - try Lositfy:

http://home.comcast.net/~lowellstewart/lostify/

Via this hint:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...&lsrc=osxh