Lostify: The Best Answer for iTunes Video Tagging

Lostify

If you are an educator trying to build a media library, a frustrating task can be batch changing the tags of a large number of videos that you have ripped from your DVD collection (for example, setting the information for title, video kind, genre, season, etc.). DougScripts has an AppleScript solution, currently called "Set Video Kind of Selected (v3.1)" or the more complete "Make Video Tags" (URLs may change). While these can work well, if painfully slowly, they periodically start timing out with a error messages. This may be function of a huge iTunes library, or some other issue with your Mac configuration, or user error, or... Just be warned: your mileage may vary.

The interface is simple and access is iTunes integrated in the Scripts menu item. Given its great price-point - namely free with donations accepted - it's definitely worth the first shot.

If this solution fails, another option is "Lostify" - as suggested by Doug Adams (of Dougsripts.com, not of Hitchhiker's fame) - written by Lowell Stewart. This option has yet to hang on an error message, and is highly recommended. It is also free.

Tags able to be modified:

Options for modifying the file, and adding to iTunes:

Simply launch Lostify, go to the File menu, and open the file(s) you need to modify.

One day, Apple will likely "adopt" these great ideas into iTunes itself. Until then, many thanks to Doug Adams and Lowell Stewart, who deserve many a round on the house from grateful iTunes users.