There is this curious thing that happens when you are dealing with movies, music videos and TV shows from iTunes: the bulk update can't edit all of the video dependent fields, like video type, show name, season number, etc.
This is not that big a deal unless you love your AppleTV so much that you decide to rip all of your legally owned DVDs into a huge hard disk so you can watch them from your AppleTV. Try editing a network season of 24 shows, one episode at a time. Apple will probably catch up on this before iTunes 8 is out, after all they are fanatic about UI consistency, but for now we are screwed by having to do it by hand.
Hence, mah hero: Doug Adams.
Not only did Doug fix this with a simple Applescript, he put it on his website for free (he does take donations). The damn thing even has an installer! I find this amazing because adding an Applescript to iTunes involves grabbing a file and copying it to a folder in the library. Yet he went through the extra step of providing an installer script.
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