finermac: iTunes 9 finally organizes TV shows into separate folders by season iTunes 9 gained a new top-level “iTunes Media” folder that separates your content into folders like “Music,” “Movies,” and “Podcasts.” If you have an existing library and, for whatever reason, want iTunes to sort everything into this new system, go to File > Library > Organize Library…, and give iTunes some time to work its magic. Note, however, that this process can take a while depending on the size of your library, and some non-music/video files (specifically the PDF booklets that come with some albums) may be left outside the iTunes Media folder. Along with this new top-level system, iTunes 9 finally organizes TV shows into sub-folders by season. In previous versions, all episodes across multiple seasons of a show were lumped alongside each other in the same folder, prefixed by a season-level episode number. This made it difficult to glance at the folder and manually track down a specific episode or three for, say, manually copying to another computer or a device. Organizing TV episodes by season is simply good behavior that keeps one’s media directory tidy and easy to navigate. Now how do we go about turning the podcast community onto the concept of seasons? Housekeeping Update: After running this, I discovered a bunch of mp3’s which had become unlinked in my itunes library and my time machine had to re-backup my entire library.
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iTunes 9 finally organizes TV shows into separate folders by season

iTunes 9 gained a new top-level “iTunes Media” folder that separates your content into folders like “Music,” “Movies,” and “Podcasts.” If you have an existing library and, for whatever reason, want iTunes to sort everything into this new system, go to File > Library > Organize Library…, and give iTunes some time to work its magic. Note, however, that this process can take a while depending on the size of your library, and some non-music/video files (specifically the PDF booklets that come with some albums) may be left outside the iTunes Media folder.

Along with this new top-level system, iTunes 9 finally organizes TV shows into sub-folders by season. In previous versions, all episodes across multiple seasons of a show were lumped alongside each other in the same folder, prefixed by a season-level episode number. This made it difficult to glance at the folder and manually track down a specific episode or three for, say, manually copying to another computer or a device.

Organizing TV episodes by season is simply good behavior that keeps one’s media directory tidy and easy to navigate. Now how do we go about turning the podcast community onto the concept of seasons?

Housekeeping

Update: After running this, I discovered a bunch of mp3’s which had become unlinked in my itunes library and my time machine had to re-backup my entire library.