Sort tags ignored on Shared libraries

Question

Is this ever going to be fixed? Why have ONE inconsistant thing in the AppleTV-iTunes relationship?
I have a main iTunes library that has 25,000+ audio files, several hundred TV show episodes and almost 200 movies in it. I have content, TV shows, automatically added to this library on a regular basis so I can't be there to manually hit the Sync button for a Custom Sync, to disable the actual copying of data, for the Apple TV. I also don't want to do an automatic sync because with a library this large, and some content on a network drive, iTunes is constantly trying to re-sync some things.
All I want is for a "Shared" library on the AppleTV to respect the "Sort" fields in iTunes. This worked in previous versions of AppleTV OS, ie 2.X, but is broken in 3.X versions. PLEASE FIX THIS.

Answer 1

cawpin wrote:
.........so I can't be there to manually hit the Sync button for a Custom Sync, to disable the actual copying of data, for the Apple T V
You don't need to be there for iTunes to sync new content, hitting the sync button won't disable the copying either.
I also don't want to do an automatic sync because with a library this large, and some content on a network drive, iTunes is constantly trying to re-sync some things.
There are two areas where the term automatic sync is applied, firstly as an alternative to custom syncing and secondly when new content is added which is included in one of your synced sets or options. The size of your library has no relevance to how much content is synced or how often this takes place. Only content that is new/changed and is included in your sync options are synced.
All I want is for a "Shared" library on the AppleTV to respect the "Sort" fields in iTunes. This worked in previous versions of AppleTV OS, ie 2.X, but is broken in 3.X versions. PLEASE FIX THIS.
My shared libraries obey the sort field in iTunes, in what way don't yours.