Bugzilla – Bug 10501
Option to ignore Movies/TV Shows/videos
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:14:12 UTC
Add an iTunes settings allowing to ignore Movies and TV Shows (or generally video files) during import. The current situation, where video playlists are dutifully imported, is perfectible.
QA to reproduce and see if there's any clear solution. Fred, I don't understand your comment about playlists. Does this only happen with files in playlists? Thanks!
No, it happens with all files. But those not in a playlist are assigned to "No Album" and "No Artist" and are not too visible. The playlists however show up in the list of playlists, which is a lot smaller. (I have 10k songs but maybe 30 or so playlists); it makes the useless-ness of it a lot more visible. Video playlists are becoming more common now that AppleTV can make use of them.
What is the extension of your movies/TV shows and video podcasts that show up under "No Album" and "No Artist" -- MOV or M4V or another extention
These extensions do show up: m4v, mov, mp4, but I have not performed an extensive check. DRM'd stuff does not seem to be there.
There is an existing setting that allows you to specify extensions to ignore during scan. This would work for m4v, mp4, etc but mov may be a problem as I believe this can contain audio only (I could be wrong there). If there is a flag in itunes that gives us some sort of type info that we don't get from just the extension, then SC could check this fairly easily. The playlists might disappear from the list if they get scanned as empty (due to being fully populated with files of blocked extensions). If not, it may be possible to flag empty playlists and block them from being stored in the db (logged as to why, of course)
Forgot about this option and that it applied to iTunes. I will try to add "mp4, m4v, mov" to the list and check it does indeed remove most of the video files. In iTunes itself, the "Media Kind" for video files are Movies or TV Shows or Music videos, so such a "video" flag is there (and would probably be a cleaner fix that relying on the extension). Options for audio are Music and Audiobook. Podcasts are Media Kind=Podcast but then there are audio and video podcasts. I don't know what these translate into in the XML, that should be investigated. I agree, just ignoring empty itunes playlists would do the trick.
Brandon: Please consider adding Media Type to new schema. We could then set filters for various 'types' of media to show them or hide them based on the attached player Anything with a Video (Format) Flag in the ID3 should be hidden no matter the codec type. This would cover MP4, MOV, etc.
(In reply to comment #7) > Brandon: Please consider adding Media Type to new schema. We could then set > filters for various 'types' of media to show them or hide them based on the > attached player > > Anything with a Video (Format) Flag in the ID3 should be hidden no matter the > codec type. This would cover MP4, MOV, etc. > I've always assumed the way people would use this would be to organize libraries by media type anyways, as it allows for more-specific metadata, although a schema which encompasses all media types is certainly going to be possible. Probably the takeaway from this is to ensure that the code for a given filetype in a schema has the option to drop a track based on tag data.
I have added mp4, m4v and mov in the field but the videos are still there. I am unsure if these are taken into account for iTunes scanning. This probably needs clarifying.