Video Sorting

On my iPod Touch I have 14 episodes of the same TV Show from a bunch of seasons. When I click on the TV Show, I get all of my choices but they are in alphabetical order instead of by season. Is there a setting i can change or something to order the episodes correctly? This gets pretty annoying.

I don't know about the 1G iPod Touch firmware, but I have a 64GB iPod Touch and I'm having similar problems with sorting. If you tag videos correctly, by putting in episode numbers, season numbers, titles, etc., things aren't exactly sorted alphabetically. The iPod groups all episodes from a show together, instead of breaking them out by season. Then it sorts them by episode number. When the episode number matches another, it breaks the tie using the episode title. So, if you have several seasons together, it groups all the first episodes together, then the second episodes of each season, etc.
I find it pretty annoying too. Please go to Apple's feedback page at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ and ask them to fix this problem.

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Apple,
Please fix the alphabetical sort order of tv shows within the videos application in ios 6.x.
Apparently tv shows bought from itunes store will sort by episode but manually added videos do not.
This should be a relatively simple fix considering it worked correctly in ios 5...
I don't know how you guys managed to screw it up AGAIN in ios 6...
Just thought you could include this in your 6.1.2 update which will hopefully patch the exchange bug and lockscreen passcode bypass exploit.
You might as well kill two birds with one stone, in other words, fix this stupid video sort order problem and patch your os with ONE, not multiple, OTA upda
You advertise your products as user friendly and whatnot but can't even get something as simple as logically ordering tv shows in order of episode right?
Seriously Apple, get your stuff together and fix the alphabetical sort ordering of tv shows.

This is a user-to-user technical help forum hosted by Apple. There are only other users here. You aren't talking to Apple here and they don't read these forums for bug reports.
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ITunes Video Sorting Issue

I recently purchased a MacBook Pro and am in the process of moving all of my music and videos from my PC to an external hard drive that I purchased. When I import some of the video into iTunes they are completely out of order.
The videos in question are TV Shows purchased directly from the iTunes Store. Most of the videos are not effected, however some are and I can't seem to figure out how to resolve it.
For example, I have the first 3 seasons of Lost. The first 2 seasons, sort fine. Looking at Season 3, the sort order is completely messed up even though the shows are tagged correctly (as they should be because I purchased them from iTunes). Yet, they are sorted like this: Episodes 1,3,2 etc.
This is also the case for Prison Break Seasons 1 and 2 and South Park Season 10.
Anyone that can shed some light on this, I would greatly appreciate it.
I would like to add that these same files sort just fine on my PC with iTunes 7, the Mac has the newly released 7.1

Hi Paul,
I had a similar problem about a month ago with some files I had tagged with incorrect episode numbers. (in the Track field under Info) With no "of ##" value, tagging an incorrect episode number and correcting resulting in my fix.
Try this...
Make sure you have backup copies of the entire season's videos (if possible) in a folder that is NOT in your iTunes library folder. If you are short on hard drive space, find the actual files in the iTunes library folder and move them into a new folder on the Desktop.
Once you've copied these, go back into iTunes, and under Preferences -> Advanced -> General, uncheck the option that says "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library".
Remember - at this point you have backup copies of the videos, safe in a folder on the Desktop... from the iTunes window, delete all of the videos for that particular season from the library. (again, let me re-emphasize the importance of backing up these video files)
At this point, if the original files are still in the iTunes Library folder (if you made copies of the files), iTunes will ask whether you wish to move the files to the Trash - click "Yes". If you simply moved the originals out of the iTunes Library folder and into a new folder, this option shouldn't appear - you are now just removing the library references to the files.
Now, re-drag the backup files into the iTunes library window, where it should process them and add them to its library. If all is successful, the sort order should be restored. (provided that the correct Track number was populated into the ID3 tag)
If so, create a folder in <user> -> Music -> iTunes -> iTunes Library (something like that... I can't remember the actual path offhand, am at work at the moment away from my Mac) and copy the formerly-backup files here. iTunes should recognize the change in directory; use Apple-I to "Get Info" and check the bottom of the Summary tab for the file's path, it should be associating the video file with the new directory.
Restore all of your original options ("Copy files to iTunes Music Folder...") as they were for future imports, and you should be good to go.
Hope this helps... again, I am at work at the moment, and am recreating my problem/remedy in my head step by step.
Steve
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Don't steal music !! Just a statement, not an accusation

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Hi,
When importing video as TV Shows from my iTunes onto my iPad. The video shows in iTunes as being sorted by TV Show then season. But for some reason on my iPad it gets sorted by season only.
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All appears fine in iTunes, but on my iPad.
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Any ideas on how to fix this or what to change in the metdata to avoid this issue.
As it seems to work with purchased videos from the iTunes store but ones imported from my computer have this problem.

You can re-download content purchased from the iTunes store (availability varies depending on location) using the purchased option from the Quick Links section in the top right corner of the iTunes homepage in your iTunes application on your computer.
You can re-download content purchased from the iTunes store (availability varies depending on location) using the purchased option which is revealed in the iTunes app on your iOS device by tapping the more button at the bottom of the screen.

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thank you

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So the problem is basically that my TV episodes are sorting alphabetically instead of by episode number. I had an iPhone 3GS and this was not at all a problem, they sorted by episode as I wanted. Then when I got my iPhone 5 and added more television shows to my phone it started sorting alphabetically. So basically, as soon as I got the new phone it started doing this. The episodes are all set as TV shows, they all have episode numbers attached, I have made all of the info on them the same except for the episode number, id and the season number. The episodes are sorted by episode number in my itunes as well, but when I sync it it will not sort by anything but alphabetically. Help please!

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i hav a couple of videos that are not music...and a couple that are...i put the artist name thinkin that would do it but it doesnt when i turn on ipod and go to videos i want the music videos in that section and random videos in the Movies section
plz help

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