You’ll find a list of all your purchases here, and you can download entire albums or individual songs. Sign in to your account, then click Music. Go to the iTunes store, and click on Purchased in the Quick Links section at the right of the window. Some of them are for movies, videos, podcasts, and audiobooks.Īs for redownloading your music, this has been possible for the past few years. First, these conditions and smart playlists are not only for music. Q: When you create a smart playlist, one of the fields you can use for a match is “Category.” However, when I bring up the info for my song tracks, I see no Category field that I can fill in to use in future playlist searches. As you add more podcast episodes to your iTunes library, the unlistened ones will automatically be added to this playlist. If you add Plays is 0, then once you’ve listened to a podcast, it will no longer show up in the playlist. I would also recommend adding a second condition after Media Kind is Podcast. Sync this playlist to your iPod classic and you’ll be able to play the podcasts in order. So you can choose to have the playlist display and play the podcast episodes in either chronological order or reverse chronological order. Click again to sort in the opposite direction. Click the column header above Date Added in the playlist’s window to sort by that date. Check Date Added, then close this window. Select the playlist in iTunes, then press Command-J to display the View Options window. If you rip your own discs, Subler (or a similar app) is a must-have.A smart playlist can help you sort your podcast episodes by the date they were added to your iTunes library. Subler isn't fancy, but it works, it works well, and it's completely free. But it's really not much work (three or four clicks) to process each file individually-and that way, I can verify everything looks good before saving the changes. I've only tried this a couple of times-it worked once and failed once. Subler can, in theory, process batches of files. Once that's done, I'm good to go-dragging the movie into the TV app (or iTunes) results in it being properly categorized, with its metadata intact: The final step-and one I've forgotten a couple of times-is to press Command-S to save the new metadata directly into the movie file. If, by chance, you'd rather use other artwork, you can select None, and then paste an image directly into the Artwork panel. Most of the time, that's the one I want, so I only need click "Set as artwork," and I'm (almost) done. Subler has searched its data sources, and returned a number of options for artwork, with one preselected. (That window doesn't show all of the metadata found by Subler- this image shows the full data set.)Īfter confirming that Subler has found the right data, I click Add, and the metadata is added to the file, and Subler then presents the artwork panel: Because I've used a filename format (show name - season and episode) that Subler understands, it runs the search as soon as I click that icon: But that changes when I click the magnifying lens in the upper right corner of Subler's window. Other than the ripping tool, there's nothing there. I then drag and drop the ripped file onto Subler's dock icon, and it opens a window, showing all the metadata associated with the file here's how the window looked after I ripped the first episode of Sports Night: When I rip a TV series, I'll give the files a filename based on its title and (for TV series) season and episode, like Wings S01E01, or Sports Night S02E04. There are probably other apps out there that do this, but Subler works quite well for me, especially for TV shows. If I try to add the movie to the TV app (or iTunes, as on my iMac), it will require some hand editing to wind up in the right category, and it still won't have any show information.Įnter Subler, a free app to help you "tag" (add metadata to) movies and TV shows. Once ripped, the problem is that I have a video file that will play, but that has no useful information about what the video is-no metadata about the cast, production year, or (for TV series) season and episode. So I rip the disc- this way for Blu-Rays, or just via HandBrake for DVDs-to create my own digital copy. I tend to prefer physical media and sometimes-especially when buying an older TV series or classic movie-the disc won't include a digital copy. Somewhat regularly, I write about ripping DVDs and Blu-Rays.
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