Cornelius Fichtner, PMP
posted this on January 09, 2010 12:31
After you download the episodes with iTunes and then synchronize them to your iPod/iPhone, you will notice that they are either ordered backwards from Z-A or that they are randomly ordered.
This is quite normal for iTunes/iPod/iPhone and there is unfortunately nothing that we can do... we consider this to be a "feature"...
Here is a partial solution for this problem:
However, iTunes playlists will NOT play the video. They only play audio. Apple calls this a "battery saving feature" for your iPod and iPhone. Creating a playlist can be helpful if you are just interested in listening to the audio (for when you are driving a car) and you don't want to watch the video. If you want to watch the video as well, then there is unfortunately no way to change the order.
Note: Some new versions of iPod / iPhone / iPad will show the video even in a playlist.
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Good news! Using this approach, if you have a later generation iPod (not sure beginning when), from your main iPod menu, under Videos | Video playlists, when you select the title of your Smart Playlist (as you named it according to the instructions above), the videos will be in episode order.