TV Show Tagging

[momoaz]

Sorry to bother. I've tried to find a better process for months. I've used filebot for 3 years on Mac and paid for it as soon as it was on the app store. Love it. Anyone who uses iTunes (because of apple tvs) is familiar with this issue. I take my file use filebot for the default naming "TV Show - 1x01 - Episode Name.mp4...perfect. No art now subtitles nothing don't care. Then when added to iTunes say 30 files for a series in a group they all have to be selected afterwards as on group, cmd I get info, add the series name to get them in single folder viewable on the apple tv, then a tab over to option and change the type to "tv show". This get them out of apples curse'ed home videos folder. All is well even if you add the folder of shows to another iTunes library the show name remains intact for all 30 episodes and keeps them grouped. You do however have to go AGAIN to option and change the type to TV show. Ive tried a few different metadata editors identify, subtler etc all have too many setting to tweak and end up breaking the files in some way. Keep in mind with the two menu deep structure of the apple tv its better to have one menu with "Dexter" or whatever and 6 seasons of episodes in the next menu than 6 "Dexter" Season Menu items with 13 episodes in each sub menu. Faster to scroll through your list when you have 6000+ tv shows then having 500% more entries in the first level of tv shows menu that take forever to scroll through. If you purchased these shows from Apple instead of transfer them from your Tivo, Dvds etc, Apple would have your Dexter broke into 6 separate folders which isnt convenient on the apple tvs limited menu. Yes theres better Plex etc but lets not go there I've digressed enough.

So forgetting art, seasons, actors all that stuff and using filebot in its perfect default naming scheme is there a way to tag the files as "tv show" when renaming? If not what program do you recommend and I know the program would need a lot of setup to disable all the stuff that would break the storage structure when added to iTunes. A simplest answer would be a batch tagger that changes only one tag media type and leaves everything alone including filebots name.

thanks for listening

[rednoah]

If you can find some docs on how iTunes tags files, then maybe some support could be added.

If iTunes can use normal Finder tags this script might be helpful:
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[momoaz]

Here is what I found last night. After hours of playing I tired 4 different programs, none of them worked. I found VideoMonkey for Mac. After naming with Filebot I dropped them in Video Monkey, changed the pulldown menu from "Encode & write metadata" to "Write metadat to input file only", push the info button, add "Show (Series Title)" put in the shows proper name as you want the folder to appear in ATV "Magnum PI" for instance and change the "Media Kind" pulldown to TV Show. Dont add name or anything else. Close the window and hit start. It doesn't molest the file names as shown in iTunes, and it groups them all in the correct folder as well as tags them in iTunes as Tv Shows when adding. No more changing afterwards from Home Video and the Apple TV shows the perfect Filebot name in the title. They also list view correctly in iTunes. Its best not do do multiple shows of different series' at one time then when your in the info box of Video Monkey you can copy the Series Title, paste hit next below and then paste again changing each one to TV Show before hitting next. Is sound complicated but after doing it the other way for 3 years this is much easier and faster and no select all in iTunes, get info, add show name, change type to tv show, close and wait 2 hours for iTunes to update the metadata to their iTunes.xml (not the file) has to happen. I appreciate the response and wanted to make sure I want missing a feature built in to Filbebot. I have had to do this many times when converting users DVD, rips, and other sources into their idiot proof video systems using ATV. A point worth making this was never a problem with movies since MetzaZ would add the Movie tag when adding the art and saving the files. MetaZ rewrites the whole file though and programs like Video Monkey, identify etc seem to just quickly append the file and not rewrite the whole thing.