Exporting a TV Series to another iTunes library - keeping all tag info?
Hi
I have a TV series that I ripped from my DVDs into iTunes.
There are 3 seasons. All artwork, episode numbers, and seasons are grouped nicely and appear in iTunes exactly how they should.
MY QUESTION IS: Does anyone know how to export and import this nicely grouped TV series to another iTunes library on another PC (i.e. from mine to my sisters library) without loosing all metadata/tags etc.
I did this a while ago with another TV series, but I remember that the movie files are automatically imported into the Movies section of iTunes.
I had to painfully go through all the episodes and seasons and re-group them all again and change them to the TV programmes section - took a good hour and half - do not want to do that again!
Any ideas would be greatful...
Hi,
All file formats are .m4v (mp4) which work fine with iTunes which does support tags and when I have imported to another PC, it still defaults to the Movie section, so the 'TV Show' tag doesn't seem to make a difference.
My only problem is that the meta tags (I'm guessing) are stored within the master iTunes Library.xml file and not the movie files them selves, hence the reason why all movie files default to the movie section.
I thought of creating a Playlist and adding all the seasons of the TV series, exporting that (to XML), then re-importing to other PC.
Of course, the only problem is file paths in the XML point to the real location of the mp4 on my PC, not on the PC I want to export to - meh.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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