Messed up seasons!

Specifically, the TV show Deadliest Catch seasons are all screwed up! I had several episodes from seasons 5, 6, and 7. Now, it looks like iTunes changed the season numbers and all the newest shows coming out are being called season 6. What's worse is that all the season numbers seemed to have been bumped down.
Now, when I download episodes, they're all getting mixed up so I can't tell what shows are for what season anymore. This isn't acceptable. I need a way to fix this mess that iTunes created. Any ideas?

Update***
I could not get iTunes 11 fixed. I reverted back to 10.7. I had to re-install the app, then I had to re-scan the folders, manually import items downloaded with iTunes v11. However, my Home Sharing now is working perfectly. So this was definitely a v11 issue.
Apple if you are listening, which I hope you are, iTunes v11 is DUD!

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TV Show's Season and Episode numbers are all messed up

Because of a misunderstanding, Apple iTunes Store caused all of my past purchases to be downloaded to my itunes again.
The support folks gave me directions on how to go through and delete all the duplicates in my iTunes, which I did. It took a bit of time, and I followed their instructions to only delete the most recently downloaded version. Everything is OK except many of my TV shows. Somehow all the Season Numbers and Episode Numbers got all screwed up.
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ITunes TV Show Season Pass Issues - How is it working for you?

I love iTunes Season passes. I love letting a show accumulate without worrying about storms, sports messing up recording times, power outages, storage of my DVR, etc... The shows are always going to be there to watch. However for well over a year ago Apple removed the new TV Show episodes from coming via the Check Available Downloads option. Since then we have had a plethera of options presented to us. However I continue to have mixed results. I have tried using my Apple Care to get support. But since its more like a cloud or iTunes issue, they send me to the web which is nothing but email support. Email support suggests these 4 methods. 3 out of the 4 rarely work for me in a reliable or timely way. I am looking for those who have the same issues/challenges and understand if you have found a better way or even a root cause why I am getting these results.
First method is using the email notifications you can turn on when you manage your season pases via iTunes Account inside the iTunes application. You click the email link, it launches Safari, Safari launches iTunes, in a few seconds you get a "Cancel" or "Download" pop up in iTunes. You click download and it will download the show. You must repeat this for each email notification/show... daily. It can be hap hazard as the notifications sometimes come at 2am and others throughout the next day.
Second method is going to iTunes store in iTunes, click on TV Shows, Click on Purchased... and there you can select "not on this computer" to see what episodes are new and not downloaded yet. This is actually fairly straight forward and easier than the email links. However I am having an issue where even though I have the notification, the show does not show up in my purchases. If I switch over to "shows" vs "seasons" I see the episodes from all my email notifications. But generally only the behind the scense have the icloud download icon. (see attached screen shot) The work around is to go to the TV show page itself for that season, scroll and use the download button there for each new epiosde you have not downloaded. This is probably now less optimal than the email.
Third method is to enable "show iTunes in the Cloud purchases" via iTunes Preferences. I dread it evertime its suggested I try this. When I enable this option, all shows and movies marked as "unwatched" get marked as "watched." Right now, I have a large number of episodes unwatched right now. So it would be ALOT to clean up to try it again. When I have used this, its by far the easiest to use (besides the former retired "check for available downloads" option. You just go to your TV Shows in your library, unwatched tab, and just click the download icons. You dont even have to leave your library. However there seems to be a bug. I suspect it has something to do with my machine sleeping and the internet connection dropping and not re-establishing before iTunes is trying to reconnect. The end result is the iTunes in the cloud preference disappears or gets completely reset.... and it totally messes with your unwatched and watched shows. I have showed it to an Apple Care rep as they were connected to my machine. They couldnt believe it. So I would REALLY love to know if anyone has tried this method recently and NOT had these issues. Its a good hour of work if it does not work cleaning up the after math. So feedback would be welcome.
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I am doing my best to keep this to a civil request for feedback from fellow users and fans of the TV Show Season Passes. I would even welcome an Apple response. I am currently trying to get iTunes support to look into these again. But I keep getting looped into one of the four options with each email exchange.... even though I have already explain, provided screen shots, etc... Its sort of exhausting when you are stuck with email as your only path to explain and help. Especially when you spent the money on Apple Care. Perhaps I need to just make an apppointment at my Apple store so I can SHOW them what happens. But that is a pain to lug in a 27" iMac and a 6TB thunderbolt drive. FEEDBACK welcome!

Hi,
I'm having the same problem on Windows and Mac, neither automatically download episodes from any of my season passes, nor do they find it when I select "Check for available downloads," it informs me all episodes have been downloaded for my Apple ID, which in fact they have not.
I have to find the episode in my Library(which shows all available episodes on my computer and in the iTunes Store) and from there I have to manually click to download. I tried deauthorizing all my computers and reauthorizing just one computer, and that didn't work either. I also deleted my other device(iPad) from the "iTunes in the Cloud" just in case there was some issue associated with that, and that didn't work either.
It’s sad that the iTunes rep didn't really "listen" to what you said. I find this happens at many other companies too. They often are trying to fit your problem into some prepared script or solution, or they are distracted or in a hurry and don't actually read or listen fully to an even well defined account of the problem.
Best of luck to us all! Hope they fixed it soon.

Why does iTunes make a mess out of my TV Shows library?

I'm not really sure where to post this, as it doesn't seem like Apple pays much attention to the official Apple Support Forums, but I'll give it a go nontheless.
The thing is, as most Apple TV owners I have to rely on iTunes for handling my media library in order to get it working towards my Apple TV (currently an Apple TV 3rd Generation, Rev A) which is perfectly fine. I find iTunes to be very well organised and owning several OS X systems, only using iOS devices and everything my music library already consists of only ALAC (Apple Lossless) music tracks and I like to keep all my audio books in M4B (AAC) simply because it’s much better organized this way. As long as all the metadata is done right one can’t really complain about how iTunes is doing things other than the Windows version being rather slow when you start filling it up with content, the OS X version is vastly superior in terms of performance and overall stability but I guess that is to be expected.
I have absolutely no problems with my ALAC (Apple Lossless) music library, no matter how many tracks I add they are all there, with the correct metadata and everything. Same goes for my audio book library, the only ones being somewhat troublesome are those I’ve got in MP3 format instead of M4B (AAC) as they get automatically listed as music instead of audio books, but that’s fixed within a matter of seconds just marking them as audio book in iTunes metadata. My movie library, which used to consists of loads of self-ripped Blu-Rays encoded to MKV’s with either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 is now repacked into M4V / MP4 containing Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC-3) and with the help of metadata downloaded from IMDB they are all listed correctly with the correct metadata, so all is good and dandy.
But when it comes to TV-Shows things starts to get messy. We are still talking about only M4V / MP4 files containing mostly Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC-3) audio tracks, and a few containing 2.0 AAC audio tracks. The problem is iTunes is making a complete mess out of things, no matter what I do.
Some TV-shows are added and shown correctly in my iTunes library, others are just not working out at all! Take my six seasons of LOST for instance.
I tried to redo the metadata on the first six episodes of season 06, but they just won’t show no matter what I do. The weirdest thing with these episodes is that when I manually play the M4V files using iTunes, iTunes recognise them as LOST Season 02 episodes and not Season 03 episodes. So LOST Season 03 - Episode 01 which is "01. A Tale of Two Cities" is shown as LOST Season 02 - Episode 10 which is "10. The 23rd Psalm". That's quite odd, which was the reason why I went ahead and rework the metadata of these episodes just to be sure.
But still it won’t show in the iTunes library and when manually opening the M4V files with iTunes it still shown as being "10. The 23rd Psalm" instead of "01. A Tale of Two Cities". If I open the file with QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player or Media Player Classic Home Cinema they all list it as "01. A Tale of Two Cities" and not "10. The 23rd Psalm" as iTunes does. Watching the playback is making quite clear it's indeed playing back A Tale of Two Cities and not The 23rd Pslam episodes, even in iTunes.
I have no clues why iTunes is making a mess out of the first six episodes of LOST Season 03, it really doesn't make much sense as there is nothing with the M4V files, their contains or their metadata that points towards iTunes recognising it as a LOST Season 2 episode at all.
Just to confirm the metadata in iTunes I tried to remove the whole LOST series from my library and went ahead and added ONLY the first six episodes of Season 03 and nothing else. Then they are showing correctly, with the correct metadata for each and every episode.
But upon adding the rest of the bunch they disappear and suddenly iTunes starts mixing the first six episodes of Season 03 as Season 02 episodes...
As soon as I add any episode of LOST Season 02, 10-15 they seem to replace LOST Season 03, 1-6. So Season 03 is working perfectly, having all the right metadata and everything but as soon as I add LOST Season 02, Episode 10, LOST Season 03, Episode 01 starts playing as LOST Season 02, Episode 10 and then disappears from the library. Upon adding and playing back LOST Season 02, Episode 11 it replaces LOST Season 03, Episode 02 which then disappears from the library and this goes on for episode 10-15 of Season 02 which for some reason replaces episode 01-06 of Season 03.
This isn’t isolated to only LOST, same goes for a few of my House M.D season whereas iTunes is starting make a mess of things mixing metadata of Season 3 with metadata of Season 4 for no obvious reason. This is quite frustrating as this renders my Apple TV quite useless when iTunes is not capable of handling my media library correctly.
Several episodes are missing in quite a few of my various TV Shows as well, some requires me to manually open the M4V / MP4 while browsing my library for it to get listed as it’s not being added while adding the folder to my library.
This has been going on ever since iTunes 10.X, and it’s behaving like this on all my system it being Windows 7, Windows 8, OS X Mountain Lion or OS X Mavericks. Surely something has to be done in order to solve this? There is nothing wrong with my M4V / MP4 files as I’ve re-ripped them, re-encoded them, re-done their metadata and everything without any luck and consider it only happens with various TV shows and not with my music, audio book nor my movie library I see nothing pointing at it being a problem with my content but rather iTunes making it all fuzzy for no apparent reason.

Seems like I actually figured out what was going on.. When I re-do my MKV's into MP4 / M4V's applications like Subler, MKVtoMP4 and other toolkits are grabbing metadata from servers like IMDB.
Upon retrieving metadata they also grab something called "XID" which is supposedly Apple's very own iTunes specific ID or serial if you like for each specific TV show available through the iTunes Store. This seems to be causing the problems with missing episodes and episodes starting to playback as a different episode from another season.
I always wondered why House Season 04 - Episode 01 - "Alone" always got played back as House Season 03 - Episode 11 - "Words of Deeds". It was always the exact same mix-up each and every time. iTunes never seems to mix-up anything other than the same specific episodes each and every time, and all the missing episodes are always the same ones, from the same TV show, from the very same season. I always found that a bit strange as I would expect library mix-ups from iTunes to be somewhat random and not consistent like this.
So I tried to simply tried something completely random, renaming House Season 04 - Episode 01 - "Alone" into "RARW Season 11 - Episode 42 - "Come at me bro"" and House Season 03 - Episode 11 - "Words of Deeds" into "TESTING Season 04 - Episode 05 - "Testing this"" and it will still do the same, now my randomly generated metadata of "RARW Season 11 - Episode 42 - "Come at me bro"" was played back as "TESTING Season 04 - Episode 05 - "Testing this"". So it clearly had nothing to do with whatever metadata I added to the video within iTunes, it would continuously mix-up the very same episode no matter what.
So then I grab my toolkit to see what kind of information was garter from IMDB's database to see if I could spot anything weird going on? I didn't really see anything, but I noticed the XID with it's "Apple:vendor_id:2003-tt0367279" input, so even though these two episodes had different XIDs I tried to simply input my very own like "House Season 03" and "House Season 04" and then all of sudden everything worked out perfectly.
I'm not entirely sure whos to blame here. As the XID was indeed different I see no reason why iTunes should confuse one for the other in the first place, perhaps there is something fuzzy with the iTunes database or something. I don't really care though, I see no value in having the "correct" XID as long as my iTunes library is showing and playing back everything correctly so now I have just went ahead and re-done ALL my XID's of every TV Show to have their very own for each season just to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.

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How to view by show and not Seasons

This is probably more an itunes questions but since apple tv users use itunes I thought I'd try here. Is there a way to organize the library so that when you are in TV shows you view just the shows. Say I have lost and theres 4 seasons of it. Can't I just view lost TV show, click it then I see my 4 seasons with the art work. Cause other wise I have all these shows but I have to scroll through so much just to get the right season. I hope this makes sense but if I have 10 shows and they all have 4 seasons I have 40 listings. Seems kinda crazy. I have tried to organize my library but can't seem to get this one figured out. Maybe there isn't a way and itunes wants it that way. Hope to hear form someone.

I should have been clear though. Its not the view in itunes that bothers me, its in apple tv.
Yes, that would have helped.
Is there a way to say make a grid view with apple tv?
No, not a "Grid" view, but you can achieve the same "List" results on an TV2 device by including/excluding the "Season" entry.
So the only thing I can do is change the season. However, won't that make a mess cause if I have say 4 seasons. I would then have 4 episode 1's etc.
No, not if you are really entering the "Episode Number" correctly. For instance, I am currently working on season 2 of Bones. Since there were 22 show episodes in season 1, they were numbered 1 thru 22. Season 2 contains 21 show episodes which are numbered 23 thru 43. (If you need a list of episode numbers for a particular series, you can visit a site like http://www.tv.com and search for the TV series by name and, once you find it, jump the the "Episode Guide" for that series.
In any case, if you remove the season number from all of your "Lost" episode entries, then all of the shows will be displayed in a single continuous list which you can access via the single "Lost" TV Show Name entry. You can remove all of the season numbers in a single action by selecting all of the Lost episodes and entering a "nul" Season entry. If your Episodes Numbers are correct, then the Episode titles will be listed in the order in which they were aired on TV.
To me it just seems kinda crazy that using apple tv you would have to view multiple seasons of multiple shows instead of just the show name, then choose your season, then episode.
As previously noted, these devices only allow two organizational levels and your statement implies you want three separate tiers--Show Name, Season Number (by Show), and Episode Name (by Season). If you look at the display of your current TV Show list on an TV1 device, you would see only a single entry for each TV Show and when you select the TV Show Name, you would see a list of episodes divided by "Season Number" headers. In other words, removing the "Season Number" entry for an TV2 device will allow it to display in the same manner as the TV1 device but without the "Season Number" headers in the "Episode" list.
I dunno, maybe i mis understood or am missing something.
Basically, you have the option of displaying all episodes under a single TV Show Name or single Season Episodes under a TV Show + Season Name. How you choose to view them is up to you.

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It's been awhile since using iTunes, but I needed to purchase a bunch of new songs. After purchasing the roughly 12 songs, I plugged in my iPhone 5 to sync the updated playlist. There was still plenty of room on my phone for these few new songs. I left the computer to do it's work and when I returned, I noticed my phone said 30-some items could not be synced. I went to re-sync my phone and noted that some Battlestar Galactica episodes were adding. Since the episodes being added should have already been present on my phone (watching the whole thing all over again), I found this odd.
I checked out my TV show sync settings and noticed there were a bunch of missing episodes in the iTunes list as well as a bunch of others duplicated. It's really all messed up and mixed up. At this point I'm pretty freaked out as I paid a lot for these seasons. I went into my iTunes media folder and found everything to be right as rain. The shows are all present and accounted for - also within their correct season folders. I am pretty confused at this point.
I checked my other TV shows to see if the problem repeated in other places. I'm not a good test bed since I don't have a whole lot of TV shows on iTunes.
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The first time I opened a VI and looked at its block diagram on the new computer, I was floored by how lousy it looked. Icons wereoverlapping, constants and controls were misaligned, the font sizes had changed, and, in general, the whole diagram was a mess. I though it just might have been that one, so I opened others and they all look like they were put together by 5-year olds. (No, I can't drink at work.)
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Solved!
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Hey, RavensFan!
Thanks for the quick reply. I was afraid it was something like that, but with nothing to compare it to, it was more of a shot-in-the-dark guess.
I've changed a bunch of my VIs already, but I'm thinking that I'll mess with the .ini file and see if it'll reset them, too.
I don't know if you remember, but you wrote to me last year and said that, if the Ravens went 15-1 and lost only to the Texans, that would be fine with you, as long as they got into the playoffs again. Well, you were just slightly off with the season record, but it turns out that you were aiming pretty modestly about the playoffs! Congrats, etc.!
They've been making a big stink here in Houston these days about Ed Reed's not being honest about his injury situation. Nothing is ever easy...
Thanks again for the quick reply (as usual!) --
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HT4743 My copy of Hide (Doctor Who, Season 7 part 2, has bad audio and I cannot delete and re-download. How do I fix this?

I have the season pass to Doctor Who season 7 part 2 and just downloaded Hide, but the audio is VERY messed up. How can this be fixed?

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Is there a way to sort the TV Shows by season after you go into the TV Show's name? As an example, on my iTouch I bought and got Futurama Seasons 1-5, when going to videos a huge list appears, but at the bottom the Show's name shows up, when I tap it, it brings up a list of all the episodes throughout Futurama, which is sorted by episode number, rather than season, then episode number. Is there a way to fix this, or will I have to wait for a future update for this to be fixed.

I'd love to see Apple bring back this feature. Apple vastly underestimates how many hours of video can fit in 64GB. With my encoding settings (which make use of the newer iPod's support for more advanced H.264 encoding settings, namely B-frames), I can fit about 250 hours of video on my iPod (if I got rid of my music and apps).
Hopefully Apple will do something about this. It's hard to find specific episodes when they don't sort by season. To make matters worse, because there's no Season grouping, the sorting order for episodes gets messed up. All episode 1's from the various seasons get put together, then the episode 2's, etc.
There are several other threads on these forums discussing this issue. I called Apple's tech support line, where I was assured that the issue would get fixed in future firmware. But, at the same time, it doesn't sound like the tech support guys really have a good way of communicating with the firmware developers, so I'm not holding my breath. In the meantime, I recommend going to Apple's feedback at www.apple.com/feedback/ and asking them to bring back this feature.

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My tv shows appear very haphazardly on the iPad when using Home Sharing. I have multiple seasons of some shows. On some of the shows I will get multiple instances of the same season while other seasons will not appear at all. Also some shows appear and others dont. My movies appear perfectly. All of my tv shows have the necessary metadata. I don't understand why my tv shows list perfectly on my Apple TV yet show up all messed up on my iPad?

I have all of my movies & tv shows on my imac and share them to the iPad & Apple TV. The really weird part is that I get music and movies showing up inthe TV shows section on my iPad. I tried your suggestion and it solved the issue of there being music & movies appearing in the TV Shows section. It seems that I am getting all of my TV Shows now, but I'm still getting the multple instances of the same season. Thanks for the tip! I can watch TV shows again on my iPad!

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