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What to do when your TV shows thinkare tagged they'reas movies


TV shows that think they're movies

My Apple TV has an annoying habit of categorizing all my ripped DVDs and bittorrents as "movies". See picture ->

This means when I want to load up an actual movie, I need to sift through dozens of TV shows to get to it. But it turns out this is an easy problem to fix:

1. Get info on a file by selecting it and pressing control-I
2. Select the video tab
3. Change "Video Kind" to "TV Show"



How to change movies to tv shows







This works great for a small number of files. If you have more files you need to convert, dougscripts.com has a great applescript that will work (Mac only):
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts01.php?page=1#setvideokindofselected

If there are ways to batch this in Windows, please post here:

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