TV Shows Appearing in Music App

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TV Shows Appearing in Music App

On my Mac (OS Ventura 13.2) I opened mp4 files of TV shows that I had imported from an external hard drive.

When I opened each mp4 file, it appeared in the Apple TV app as a "Home Video".

As each file is an episode of a TV show, I right clicked on each one, selected "Get Info" and changed the media type for each file to "TV Show".

I subsequently synced my iPad (7th gen.) with my Mac and the TV shows then appeared in my Music app!

I have since tried to find the affected shows in the TV app on the Mac, but each one has vanished.

I also checked in the Music app on the Mac and they're not listed there either.

Where have the shows held on my Mac moved to and why are they appearing on my iPad in the Music app?

If I delete each episode from my iPad's Library, will I lose each one completely as I can no longer locate them in the TV app on my Mac?

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Posted on Feb 3, 2023 5:32 AM

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Answer 1

Rigo_O86

Community Specialist

Feb 7, 2023 8:05 AM in response to Dusty_Bin

Hi Dusty_Bin,

Thanks for checking through that.

You're going to remove content and sync with Finder to control what's on your iPad:

Use the Finder to sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod with your computer

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities.

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Answer 2

K_Faith

Community Specialist

Feb 5, 2023 3:10 PM in response to Dusty_Bin

Hello Dusty_Bin,

Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with imported TV shows on your Mac. If you still have the files on an external drive, then you have a backup for those files. If you remove them from your iPad, you can import them on your Mac again if they go missing.

We hope this helps.

Cheers!

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Answer 3

Dusty_Bin Author

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Feb 7, 2023 6:31 AM in response to K_Faith

Just an update to the above, as K_Faith suggested, I successfully removed the TV shows that were appearing in Music from my iPad as I had a backup of each on an external drive.

However, when I next synced my iPad with my Mac, annoyingly they all reappeared on the iPad!

How can I find these offending TV shows on my Mac, delete them, and hopefully stop them from transferring back on to my iPad?

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Answer 4

Dusty_Bin Author

Level 1

13 points

Feb 7, 2023 1:08 PM in response to Rigo_O86

Thanks for your response, Rigo_O86

I have already used the Finder to sync my iPad with my Mac.

Until now I have been unable to remove the unwanted items using this method as the content I want to remove from the iPad does not appear on my Mac, only on my iPad and I don't want it on the latter!

I'd love to know where the content is hiding on my Mac so I can remove it from my iPad permanently. Any ideas, please?

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