Folders in iTunes movies

why does not Itunes not let you organise your tv series that you upload via handbrake on the mac. this would be a fantastic feature as when you are using plex or apple tv you have to scroll through the hundreds of eppisodes from a tv series, when you down load from itunes store tv series it piyts them in folders.

use e.g. this app to tag the files properly and iTunes will do what you want.

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I have an external server that stores all my movies and music, is there a way to stream it to my apple tv? If not is there a way I can link the folders to itunes (without downloading files to computer) and will that make them view-able for the apple TV?

I have an external server that stores all my movies and music, is there a way to stream it to my apple tv?
If not is there a way I can link the folders to itunes (without downloading files to computer) that will make them view-able for the apple TV?
If none of that works is there a way to get it working alternativly?
Additional Information:
Everything is linked via ethernet cable.
I'm using a PC to set it up.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask and I'll help where I can.
Thank you for any help

(I think the daughter got he better end of the deal!) I believe if you change the password and user id one of the devices it will stop that from occurring. But I'm not the one to tell you how to do it; someone like "Illaass" (Illaass seems to know how to correct / fix almost anything!) will know how if you don't. Just look for the "cat" icon.

Regarding Artwork and managing of iTunes Movie files on a NAS Drive

My Macbook hard drive was virtually full so like many other people in my situation I made space by moving my Movies and TV folders from iTunes media to a NAS networked hard drive connected to my network router at home. That's great, freed up loads of space and when I'm home my iTunes wirelessly finds it and can even stream the content via my Apple TV. My question now though is how do I add artwork to movie files that I have ripped from my DVD's? I've been going into the info pane and adding artwork as I normally do and clicking ok, but then nothing changes. It's as if iTunes cannot write the artwork image to the file on the NAS drive, or connect the thumbnail to it.
This has led me to question how do I now add a new movie file to my iTunes if the folder is located on a NAS drive now. I also normally add a movie file to my iTunes library and then amend it's metadata i.e. the video type (movie/TV Shows), add artwork etc. My concern is that I'm not sure how to add more files and also once I do I cannot seem to amend the metadata.
Does anyone have experience in this and can they explain how best to do it.

I have a similar setup with an iMac and media library on a TC and can add some converted movies but not all and changes to metadata don't save. Files aren't hidden somewhere in Home movies. I thought it was a format issue so switched to m4v Apple format and found that i can add some to the library but not others. Any that do add, don't take changes to the metadata - no error message, just doesn't process. Interestingly, I recently upgrades from a Windows pc to the Mac and under Windows it worked perfectly!

Can't left click on certain folders in iTunes

WIndows 7, iTunes 10.5, iOS 5, iPhone 4
I cannot left click on certain folders in iTunes, such as Music, Movies, any of my Playlists, etc. If I left-click on them I see a red circle with a diagonal line through it. I have to right-click on it first, dismiss the pop-up window and I can access it fine.
This behavior is not exclusive - I can left click on some folders, like Apps, Ringtones, etc. Also I can left click elsewhere in iTunes like the menus at the top (File, Edit, View, etc.). I can also left-click elsewhere in Windows just fine.
Any ideas

Having the same problem with a windows computer.I can only click with the right button on the top folders. The lower folders like playlist work perfectly. I uninstalled Itunes because it had gone through an update and thought that a line of code or directory was missing but the problem persisted.
I have had no poblems with any of my macs which are all new however, when I launched Itunes which had just been updated on those machines, my macbook pro froze.
Looking for a fix...please help

ITunes movies with no storage left on Macbook air

Where can I put my Itunes movies if i have no storage on my mac?
Itunes movies are taking up to much space, so can I move them somewhere? Or if i delete them, and get a Mac Desktop, will they be able to be redownloaded?
I need the space for other things,but do NOT want to have to repay for the movies I have bought.

auxi.trejos wrote:
Where can I put my Itunes movies
clear cut case
You need to change the premise of your SSD use.
see here:
Your Solid State Drive and having enough space inside your Macbook Air & Pro
Solid State Drive usage premise, or the “more space / upgrade SSD” question
There have been questions posed and positions taken by many people who are trying to use their Macbook Air or Pro’s solid state drive (SSD) as a mass media storage device, for either pictures, videos, massive music collections or all three combined; but this should not be the working premise of a ‘limited’ SSD and its use.
In which, it’s the case of those users with either 128GB, 256GB, or even 512GB of internal SSD space, that have or are running “out of space”, that questions are raised. The immediate premise of some users can sometimes be “(how to / if) upgrading my SSD” when in fact in nearly all instances another approach is the logical and sensible one that needs to be looked into and exercised.
Any Macbook containing a SSD should be idealized as a ‘working platform’ notebook containing all your applications, documents, and weekly or bi-weekly necessary files. All collections of media files such as pictures, music, and videos, unless directly needed should be kept off the notebook and on an external hard drive or likewise. While the ‘working platform’ premise is also the case with larger internal conventional hard drives of 1TB+, its implementation isn't as critical except in terms of data protection.
Realistically, you should at most coordinate roughly 20 to 25% of your total SSD space to all audio-video personal use media (picture / music / video collections), leaving the remaining amount on an external HD.
Nobody should consider any notebook a data storage device at any time under any circumstance, rather a data creation, sending, and manipulation device; and in the case of a SSD, this is more important for purposes of having sufficient working space on the SSD and reducing SSD ‘bloat’ in which cases someone is wrongly attempting to use the SSD space as a large media storage nexus.
The rare exception to the collective usage and premise of SSD use in which a much larger SSD is truly needed are for those in video and photography professions that require both the extremely fast speeds of the SSD and the onboard storage for large and or many video and photography files. However this also falls under the premise of a ‘working platform’ for such peoples rather than the intent of many who are using the SSD as passive and static data storage for media files very infrequently needed or accessed.
All on-notebook data collections should be logically approached as to necessity, and evaluated as to whether it is active or passive data that likely doesn’t need to be on the notebook, allocations of space-percentages to as-needed work and use, apportioning space for your entertainment media, and questioning whether it should it be on the notebook for more than short-term consumption.
Considerations should be made in the mind of any user in differentiating the necessary system data (System hub) comprising the Mac OSX, applications, necessary documents that both must and should be on your internal SSD, and that of the users personal data (Data hub) comprising created files, pictures, music, videos, PDF files, data created or being created and otherwise, that likely unless being used soon or often should be parked on an external hard drive for consumption, or temporarily loading onto the internal SSD.
You both can and should purchase whichever SSD size you need or see fit, but even in the case of the largest of SSD, unless use-considerations are made, and SSD spaces are allocated as should be the case indicated above, one can easily and immediately run into this quandary of “needing more internal SSD space”, in which instance a different approach in usage must then be implemented.
However it is almost always the case, that such large media files are wanted to be stored internally rather than actually needed, in which case the external HD is both prudent as well as necessary. Additionally costs per MB are infinitely less on an external HD than an internal SSD in any consideration of data expansion needs.
A Professional Example
In the case of a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Retina with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace.
You should also never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your Macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’. This is especially what your external HD is for.
Professionals who create and import very large amounts of data have almost no change in the available space on their notebooks internal SSD because they are constantly archiving data to arrays of external or networked HD.
Or in the case of the consumer this means you keep folders for large imported or created data and you ritually offload and archive this data for safekeeping, not only to safeguard the data in case your Macbook has a SSD crash, or gets stolen, but importantly in keeping the ‘breathing room’ open for your notebook to operate, expand, create files, add applications, for your APPS to create temp files, and for general operation.
Slim USB3 1TB external hard drive
External Hard Drives
External hard drives are both extremely cheap and regardless of the size of your internal SSD (or even internal hard drive if the case), you need an external hard drive with your SSD equipped Macbook for several reasons:
1. Data backup and protection.
2. Redundancy for important data.
3. Necessitated ideal space for large media files for collections of pictures, videos, and music etc.
While ever changing in price, typical portable 2.5” external hard drives in USB3 run roughly $65 for 1TB or $120 for 2TB small portable USB3 hard drives. Such drives range in thickness between 5mm and 15mm, with recent improvements in storage of 500GB drives in 5mm profiles.
There is almost no premise in which a small 12mm thick 1 Terabyte USB hard drive cannot be taken along with any Macbook as an external large storage extension inside any Macbook carry case or pouch. Typically such external HD profiles are not much bigger than a deck of cards.
External hard drives are a foregone necessity for purchase with any Macbook for at the very least Time Machine backups, data redundancies, and ideally for large media storage.
Parking it
75% of the data that's stored on someone’s notebook from countless studies has not been accessed for more than one year. Keeping this ‘dusty’ data on your notebook SSD is bad due to:
1. Internal SSD/HD bloat.
2. Encourages the hazardous and lazy practice of pivoting important data on your SSD, which can fail, be stolen, lost, destroyed, and which would result in serious data loss.
3. Such data needs to be parked into passive external HD archives.
On any SSD drive, unless you are using the data at least every month or so, or more accurately on a regular basis every couple of weeks, it is extremely unlikely that data needs to be or should be on your internal SSD as static data and wasting space when it should be on an external hard drive instead.
The best use of large media files on external portable slim hard drives is to load the media when needed from your external HD to your Macbook, consume it, then delete it from your internal SSD, leaving it on your external for use again later at some point.

I want to make folders in Itunes on my desktop for books I have already read to cut down on the amount of book I must look thru before transferring to my Ipod.

How do I make folders in Itunes to move audiobooks that I have already read but want to keep to? I have been able to create one in playlists but I can't transfer anything into it. Up in the library section, I am unable to find a vehicle to generate a new folder. Anyone know anything about this?

I should also point out that when I connect my iPhone, it DOESN'T appear as a connected drive on the desktop. Not sure how this can be so, since the iPhone also has a drive and also functions as an iPod if I want it to. I must have changed some setting to achieve this non-appearance, but don't remember what I must have done.
What's the secret?

Folders in itunes

Is their a way to move the folders from itunes 5 to your black and white 4gen 20gb ipod playlist

Folders not supported on the iPod.
Only folders created by and for iPod/iTunes are on iPod. The ones you make in iTunes do not count.

HT1848 How can I save iTunes movies on an external HD?

I'm trying to transfer my iTunes movie library from my iPad2 to my external HD, because my PC's internal SSD doesn't have enough memory to hold all the movies. Any ideas?

Easy to do. First, tell iTunes where to store the movies on your computer by going to iTunes/preferences. In that wiindow, click the advanced tab and under iTunes media folder loaction, browse to the external drive where you want the movies stored. You can create a folder or iTunes will make one for you called Itunes.
I have keep iTunes media folder checked as well as copy files to iTunes media folder checked. This will copy all purchase to the drive and organize movies and TV shows into their own folders by show and season #.
Then sync your iPad and in iTunes on your computer, click File/Transfer purchases and iTunes will do t he rest.

Working with folders and iTunes

Trying to solve the problem that I can't use iTunes to manage my mp3 library because I've got other hardware and apps that use it. So I've got to do it manually...which then leads to iTunes being out of sync.
The mp3's are on my NAS device.
I've gotten so far with an AppleScript to do it but it falls over on a folder with an '&' in the name.
I'm fairly sure its related to posix and properly referencing the folder.
Any guides or tutorials on writing scripts that use network folders?

-- iTunes Folder Sync.applescript
-- iTunes Folder Sync
-- Created by Chris Beach on 28/06/2006.
-- Copyright 2006 All rights reserved.
-- addToLib v 1.1 - An AppleScipt application that adds all files in a given folder to the
-- iTunes Music Library and then (optionally) deletes the files from the source folder
-- Modified from the Add to iTunes Library Desktop Droplet Script by Apple Computer, Inc.
-- Copyright 2004 Ken Barnt <[email protected]>
-- Change Log
-- v 1.0 - original release
-- v 1.1 - fixed bug where sub directories would not be recursed
-- - added support for AAC and Protected AAC files
-- This software is distributed under the Apple Public Source Licence
property myFiletypes : {".mp3", ".aiff", ".aac", ".wav", ".mov"}
global counter, playlist_status, this_playlist
on run
-- set the following variable to the path to the folder whose contents
-- you want to add to the iTunes Music Library
set temp_folder to "MEDIA:Music"
display dialog "Import Folder is: " & temp_folder & " Continue?" buttons {"Cancel", "Ok"} default button 2 with icon 2
if the button returned of the result is "ok" then
processfolder(tempfolder)
--display dialog counter & " items added!"
end if
end run
-- this sub-routine processes folders
on processfolder(thisfolder)
display alert POSIX path of this_folder
set this_folder to the POSIX path of this_folder
set these_items to list folder this_folder without invisibles
repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
-- try
set myItem to ((this_folder as string) & ":" & (item i of these_items) as alias)
tell application "Finder" to set IsFolder to (kind of myItem = "Folder")
if IsFolder is true then
processfolder(thisfolder & ":" & (item i of these_items))
else
--check extension
tell application "Finder" to set myExtension to "." & (name extension of myItem) as string
if myFiletypes contains myExtension then
set this_item to myItem as alias
--display alert (myItem as string)
--processitem(thisitem, (path to myItem) as string)
end if
end if
-- end try
end repeat
end process_folder
-- this sub-routine processes files
on processitem(thisitem, item_folder)
try
tell application "iTunes"
launch
set this_track to add this_item to playlist "Library" of source "Library"
if "_Compilations" is in item_folder then set this_track's category to "Compilation"
if "_SoundTracks" is in item_folder then set this_track's category to "Soundtrack"
if "_Classical" is in item_folder then set this_tracks's category to "Classical"
if "_Games" is in item_folder then set this_track's category to "Game"
if "_Singles" is in item_folder then set this_tracks's category to "Single"
if the playlist_status is "OK" then
duplicate this_track to this_playlist
end if
end tell
set counter to counter + 1
end try
end process_item
you can see where i've been playing with posix!

ITunes Movies Disappearing

I am in the process of migrating all of my iTunes content to a new external device (it was previously on a smaller external device) when I noticed something.
Several of my purchased movies showed up as "in the cloud" (ie I hadn't downloaded them) when I had.
No big deal I go to my previous HD open the folders for those movies and they are empty.
Go back to my HD before that and open the folder only to find the same thing.
Even the external drive I used for my laptop which had copies of some of these movies was empty.
The next curious fact... every single one of the missing movies has iTunes extras attached to it.
Now I know what you are thinking I must have accidentally deleted these movies a long time ago and that is why they are gone but let me explain to you my file structure:
iTunes/Movie/The Other Guys/The Other Guys (acutal movie)
Now all the folders are still there but over 50 actual movie files are missing. I could see me accidentally deleting one or two but >50 all while leaving the folders they were in intact? I am not that energetic I would have just deleted the entire folder.
Has anyone ever heard of this happening before?
The movies are all still available so I am just downloading them again but that is a time consuming process as you can imagine and I don't want it to happen again if I can prevent it.

*UPDATE*
So I used my back-ups to re-populate the missing movies and then had the system add them to the library.
Then I checked the list for "movies in the cloud" and about 23 of them are gone again.
I go back to the folders I just put them in and sure enough they are empty, again.
Is there some glitch with iTunes extras and this version of iTunes (every single title is one that has extras) as was the previous listing.
I am going to try and add them individually using the add to library and copy to command built into iTunes to see if they stick that way.

Backing up ( movie folder and itune movie category)

I don't want to offend anyone. Please let me know if this post should be on itune or broken up for itune, iphoto and imovie.
Trying to to complete this backing up process, but get it lean and clean before the final back up.
As I looked closer at my almost full HD using "whatsize it", I notice that these files: movie ( movie folder and itune movie category) and music( itune and music folder ) and photos ( iphotos and picture folder ). Apparently as I was downloading from camera, making movie, or what ever to get or create the files they were being place in various places. I see now I am not using the full potential of organization on my imac.
It seems that I tune and iphotos are storage like libraries, with itunes having the capabilities to play back the music and movies. Question-should I transfer all the items into the storage application of itune and iphotos? Then erase the files from the others location?
Also what is the suggested format of transport into Itune for music and movies?
I noticed in Itunes and iphoto various folders with years and dates. Do I need these folder after transfer into itune and iphoto? What I'm trying to say do these Apps need to assess the dated folder to show or play the movie, music or display photos?
In my movie folder, I see many folders that my son made with final cut.The folders have a star in the middle and above the star is some type of black broad ➤➤➤➤➤➤. Inside of the folder is a quicktime movie and another folder titled " media", which contains a AIFF sound file. Can I transfer this QT movie into Itune? Do I need the audio file that in the media folder? Will he be able to use this movie for another project or to continue completion?
In the imovie project folder, there is one movie, but it does show up as QT. Is this the format format for Imovie? Do I need to export to itunes or QT for later transport into itune?
Austin

I received this from thomas. I also gave my response. I have a start.
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Re: video or photo's in backing up data
Posted: Jul 16, 2009 6:31 AM in response to: Austin Smith2
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If you're having trouble with organization of files, it's probably best to start using Time Machine and just let it back up everything on all your drives. The catch is that it needs a minimum of 2-3 times as much space as whatever it's backing up. If you currently have everything on the 250 GB internal drive, one of your 500 GB external drives would be an adequate backup, even if you move some files over to the other 500 GB drive. (You don't need 2-3 times more than the total drive capacity, just 2-3 times the size of the contents to be backed up.) But you said your 250 GB drive was almost full, so if your data grows much further, 500 GB won't be good enough, so you would need to buy a 1 TB drive at that point.
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Re: video or photo's in backing up data
Posted: Jul 16, 2009 6:38 AM in response to: Thomas A Reed
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Thanks, then I will back up with time machine and go today and get 2 Itb. I was given this suggestion for a new drive.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATAFW800_FW400USB
I give these other drive to my sons.
Thanks, Austin
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ITunes movie Artwork

I'm trying to add Artwork to some of my movies in iTunes. I've done this without issue in the past, but now it just won't work. I go to Get Info/Artwork/Add, the file displays properly in the Get Info window, but then, when I click OK, the window closes, but no Artwork is added, nothing displays in CoverFlow???
Any ideas???
THX!

Having same problem. I put a post up too... so I'll monitor yours and post results if anyone responds successfully to either.
This works fine in iTunes 7.5 with either a local or external iTunes folders.
Tagging information gets updated with the file just fine.
Oddly, after you "unsuccessfully" try to add artwork to the movie, going to Frontrow gets corrupt results (read: no movies or TV shows display). However, restarting iTunes will get Frontrow working again.
Another odd issue, if you attempt to delete the iTunes Movie entry, a dialog box will ask if you want to keep or delete the file... if you tell it to delete the file, it won't.
I'm guessing Apple mucked around with the Movie/Video stuff to some degree for all this rental functionality... and it typical (we release it - but don't really test it - apple fashion), broke the Movie artwork stuff.
Nice release Apple!

How can I get an itunes movie from macbook to apple tv via airplay, how can I get an itunes movie from macbook to apple tv via airplay

how can I get an itunes movie from macbook to apple tv via airplay?

You don't use Airplay. You set up Home Sharing on both and under the Computers section of AppleTV you'll then find it under Movies (or Rentals if rented), assuming it's in a compatible format.
AC

How can I restore my playlist folders in itunes? They are there but the individual song titles aren't listed. They are only listed by album. This makes it very difficult to find songs in my playlist. Also,when I click on music, it will not list options.

My itunes account is messed up. How can I restore my playlist folders in itunes? The list's are there but the individual song titles aren't. They are only listed by album. I can only see the song titles as they are played at the top of my itunes. This makes it very difficult to find songs in my playlist. Also when in the itunes store, I am not able to see music genre choices, or search for a song or group.
Thank you

Hi dones49,
It sounds like your issue here is that iTunes can not find the files for some of the songs you have brought into it. This happens occasionally even if the songs have not been moved from the location that iTunes places them on import or purchase. When you try to use the song, iTunes prompts you to find the file, as you have seen.
To find the file, use the information in this article to navigate through the iTunes media folders -
Locate and organize your iTunes files
If you are still unable to locate the files, you may need to download them from the iTunes store again, or rip them from your CDs. See this article for assistance with downloading your past purchases -
Download past purchases
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

My computer space is full and i want to remove some of my itunes movies from my computer but i dont want to loose them completely how do i make it so i can find them under my purchased on icloud?

My computer space is full and i want to remove some of my itunes movies/ t.v shows from my computer but i dont want to loose them completely how do i make it so i can find them under my purchased on icloud?

You can't do that. iCloud does function that way.
Allan

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