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Sam3 wrote:
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As an FYI, I noticed that if you do change the categories from, say, Movies to Home Videos, iTunes actually moves the original media files from iTunes:iTunes Music:Movies to iTunes:iTunes Music:Home Videos. It's not just a metafile change.

Yes, it does, when you have iTunes set to keep things organized for you (which is smart.) In the Finder, rename your "iTunes Music" folder to "iTunes Media" and it'll make even more sense.

Within the "iTunes Media" folder (that was a name change Apple did awhile back by default) you'd then have folders for each "kind" of media file:

Audiobooks
Automatically Add to iTunes
Books
Home Videos
iTunes U
Mobile Applications
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Tones
TV Shows
Voice Memos

[deckeda]

davemchine wrote:
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I don't understand how the grouping feature works. Could you explain that further? Thanks.

Whatever you put in a file's Grouping field will show in the Groupings column if you enable the Groupings column in List or (for music) Song view. Try it.

I'm not saying it's better, but different, and it might be better. Groupings is a catch-all way of organizing broad categories when Genre isn't enough or is really meant to be something else.

[In iTunes 11 they removed the separate Music Videos category from appearing in the left-hand side LIBRARY section. Now those files tagged as Music Videos appear within the Music category. I'd forgotten about that change.]

- select Music
- select Songs (this nets you a list view)
- View > Show Column Browser (if not already showing)
- View > Column Browser > Groupings

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Normally, in iTunes 11 after selecting Music you'd click the Videos tab to see things tagged as Music Videos but you then lose the ability to sort by Grouping, which only displays when browsing via "Songs".

In a nutshell, what you see and how you access it depends on how you make iTunes's window look.