iPhone’s Video Management Sucks

There is a wide gap between the storage abilities of my old 30GB Video iPod and 8GB iPhone…basically, I could dump as many TV shows and movies on top of my music as I wanted in my iPod. But the iPhone requires a bit more strategy when loading it up for a trip.

Unfortunately, iTunes isn’t exactly cooperative when it comes to choosing individual TV episodes. Movies, Sure, no problem. But iTunes doesn’t allow selection of individual episodes. Ironically (as can be seen from the photo), they do offer a plethora of ways to choose which episodes DO load onto the iPhone. But no way to pick and choose - like you can with Movies.

So, what to do? Luckily, iTunes allows you to label what type of Video each file is. Selecting “Movie” drops them into the “Movies” area of iTune’s iPhone management and you can go from there. But it would certainly be easier if TV Shows offered a manual way to choose which episodes load onto the iPhone. That would allow a much cleaner way to browse shows on phone.

So…fingers crossed for this feature to be implemented in a future iTunes upgrade.