Meta X is crap. Is there an alternative?

[Cave Man]

Are you accidentally looking at the old version of the movie in iTunes? By that I mean, once it is written you need to drop it in iTunes or let metaX do that. Then that's it, maybe you have to sync, but it will show up on apple tv.

That was the partial solution. On the ATV now, the image shows up as does the movie duration, but the description does not. For example, on movies I buy from iTunes, the movie photo displays for a couple of seconds, then shrinks to reveal the description and rating. But that does not occur with the MetaX movie. Do I need to select something specific for these to show up on the ATV?

 

[Jeff Hall]

My MetaX tagged files show the artwork, description, etc in my Apple TV.

I did notice that some of the movies did not show the tag info, nor the artwork when I first imported them into iTunes. I had my Apple TV set to stream, not sync those files. Once I synced them to the Apple TV (uploaded them), all the files displayed the tagging info.

I suspect there are some sync related bugs in the AppleTV or iTunes software.

 

[OlBlueHair]

That was the partial solution. On the ATV now, the image shows up as does the movie duration, but the description does not. For example, on movies I buy from iTunes, the movie photo displays for a couple of seconds, then shrinks to reveal the description and rating. But that does not occur with the MetaX movie. Do I need to select something specific for these to show up on the ATV?

I never sync movies, but I keep a very small amount of photos synched. I have noticed that sometimes I need to do a quick sync to "refresh" the atv.

As far as what you are saying above, as long as the description and rating appear in iTunes for me, it is also appearing on the atv. Perhaps you forgot to toggle the checkmark for that field in metax?

 

[bentoms]

I don't use MetaX but use Parlsey Is Automically Delicious might be worth having a look at it.

 

[Cave Man]

I never sync movies, but I keep a very small amount of photos synched. I have noticed that sometimes I need to do a quick sync to "refresh" the atv.

As far as what you are saying above, as long as the description and rating appear in iTunes for me, it is also appearing on the atv. Perhaps you forgot to toggle the checkmark for that field in metax?

Well, things have sorted themselves out. I didn't think it would be necessary to reimport the videos, but considering that MetaX rewrites the file that makes perfect sense. Bummer. That's a lot of videos to reimport...