Tip Stash: iTunes 8 Brings Mass Media Type Tagging

Before the arrival of iTunes 8, tagging multiple videos and songs as a TV show, Movie or Music Video had to be done one by one for each individual file which made it a daunting task. Sure Apple Scripts and dedicated Apps came to the rescue but in the end it was a job that iTunes should have handled. Luckily version 8 brings mass tagging support for different types of Media and a few more goodies.

You’re already familiar with the ‘Get Info’ pane, if you aren’t (and shame on you) then please get off this Blog post and Right Click or Control Click the heck out of your screen. Had fun? Good, give it a shot in iTunes to a batch of Battlestar Galatica episodes that were wrongly tagged as Movies (even though it’s really your favorites from season 3). Under ‘Options’ you’ll see a get info bar for ‘Media Kind’ and it’ll give you the usual 3 suspects; Movie, TV Show and Music Video. If you’ve selected more than one (Shift + select) item, this will be applied to all of those, something that was severely lacking in iTunes 7.