Put iPod TV Shows Under TV Shows Menu

Posted on December 5th, 2005 by Brian


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When I first got my video capable 5G iPod, I took the time to convert all of my favorite TV shows for the iPod. I got done with the process and was just amazed at how great the shows looked on the screen.

However, one of the things that reall bothered me is that I was unable to put the TV shows under the “TV Shows” menu. They were just in “Movies”.

It looks like this may be possible now with a program mrTVPod. (Mac and Win version) I just saw this today and plan to try it when I get the chance. If any of you have success with the program, please feel free to write about it and we’ll post it to FreeMacWare.com with credit to you.

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7 Responses to “Put iPod TV Shows Under TV Shows Menu”

  1. Ryan Says:
    January 16th, 2006 at 11:00 am

    Did you ever get this to work? Let us know!

  2. Key Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    you dont need a program to do that. all you do is right click the TV Show in itunes. The eddit window thing apears and it says “video type” select tv show and it moves it to your tv shows

  3. Brian Says:
    February 5th, 2007 at 6:08 am

    Key, this post was written over a year ago. In an earlier version of iTunes, i was just not that easy.

    We’re all glad to see Apple change it though.

  4. MIchael Says:
    February 14th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    It is actually still a problem. Though the TV is catagorized in iTunes as a TV Show it will not appear as such on the iPod. You still need to hack the tags to have it appear correctly. Curently, only TV Show purchased on iTunes Store appear as TV Shows on the iPod.

  5. Brian Says:
    February 14th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    Michael, have you tried out Lostify?

    http://www.freemacware.com/lostify

  6. Rick Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    He Guys,

    I’ve solved the problem with tv show menu. You have to edit the episode id. Try using the same episode id used in the I-tunes store.

    good luck

  7. Rajhi Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Guys its actually easier than you think. All you guys need to do is right click on the video in Movies, click Get Info. go to video and change the setting for video type from movies to tv shows. then put in all the info like season number episode etc if you want

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