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Let me start off by saying I love (well, loved) using Front Row to browse and use my media. I have over 1 TB of movies and TV shows on an external hard drive, converted to mp4 through VisualHub, and loaded on to iTunes on my Mac Mini. It is hooked up to my TV in the living room and is the main media source for me. I am running OS X 10.5.8 and iTunes 9.0.2.
My process is thus: I convert the .avi to .mp4, and VisualHub automatically loads in to iTunes. I then manually change the metadata depending on if it is a movie or TV show. For a movie, I clean up the title, add synopsis and artwork. For a TV show, I title it, add synopsis, add show name and episode number (under video tab- everything is season one with a running episode number to keep from having multiple entries for shows with several seasons), under the options tab I change media kind to TV show. Here is where the problem has arisen as of late.
Before, until I changed the media type to tv show, the file would reside under the movies section of both iTunes and Front Row. Once I changed it to TV show, then it would move to the corresponding show's list. It still does that, but any show list that I add a file to changes to either "Untitled" or "Various" even though the artwork I have applied for the series remains, and all the episodes are correctly named and ordered inside. They just aren't called "30 Rock" any more, they're called "Various" I have several "Various's" and "Untitled's" now, and it is frustrating.
The other issue is that once I change the name of the file from, for example, 30rock.s04e02.avi to "Into the Crevasse", as I mentioned earlier, inside of iTunes everything is organized perfectly. But inside FrontRow, in the Movies section (even though I have changed media type to TV Show) is a file called Into the Crevasse that will play just fine. So what this means is the 10 or 12 TV shows that I add one episode per week to my collection and change their names are now cloggin up my Movies list. I still have all the Movie files in there, but I have to weed through all of the named episodes of shows to get to them.
It has gotten so cluttered that I don't use Front Row anymore. I am still labeling and sorting and metadata-ing everything the same way because I'm type A like that, and I'm hoping that maybe a future update of either iTunes or FrontRow will fix this and I can go back to using it. It seems to me that it is a communication error between iTunes 9 and FrontRow. I don't want to revert back to iTunes 8, since I have an iTouch which (I believe) requires iTunes 9. Either way, I can't say for certain if the problems arose when I upgraded to 9... I don't recall.
So has anyone else had this issue, or am I the only lame-o still using Front Row? Most other forums have recommended using such-and-such media organizer program instead. Anyone know of a way to fix this?
Thanks
Hismikeness
My process is thus: I convert the .avi to .mp4, and VisualHub automatically loads in to iTunes. I then manually change the metadata depending on if it is a movie or TV show. For a movie, I clean up the title, add synopsis and artwork. For a TV show, I title it, add synopsis, add show name and episode number (under video tab- everything is season one with a running episode number to keep from having multiple entries for shows with several seasons), under the options tab I change media kind to TV show. Here is where the problem has arisen as of late.
Before, until I changed the media type to tv show, the file would reside under the movies section of both iTunes and Front Row. Once I changed it to TV show, then it would move to the corresponding show's list. It still does that, but any show list that I add a file to changes to either "Untitled" or "Various" even though the artwork I have applied for the series remains, and all the episodes are correctly named and ordered inside. They just aren't called "30 Rock" any more, they're called "Various" I have several "Various's" and "Untitled's" now, and it is frustrating.
The other issue is that once I change the name of the file from, for example, 30rock.s04e02.avi to "Into the Crevasse", as I mentioned earlier, inside of iTunes everything is organized perfectly. But inside FrontRow, in the Movies section (even though I have changed media type to TV Show) is a file called Into the Crevasse that will play just fine. So what this means is the 10 or 12 TV shows that I add one episode per week to my collection and change their names are now cloggin up my Movies list. I still have all the Movie files in there, but I have to weed through all of the named episodes of shows to get to them.
It has gotten so cluttered that I don't use Front Row anymore. I am still labeling and sorting and metadata-ing everything the same way because I'm type A like that, and I'm hoping that maybe a future update of either iTunes or FrontRow will fix this and I can go back to using it. It seems to me that it is a communication error between iTunes 9 and FrontRow. I don't want to revert back to iTunes 8, since I have an iTouch which (I believe) requires iTunes 9. Either way, I can't say for certain if the problems arose when I upgraded to 9... I don't recall.
So has anyone else had this issue, or am I the only lame-o still using Front Row? Most other forums have recommended using such-and-such media organizer program instead. Anyone know of a way to fix this?
Thanks
Hismikeness