Art La Flamme

I’m looking for some brain power help on this one.

I’ve added a number of video files to my iTunes collection, mainly through this little trick of importing YouTube videos in Quicktime format via RSS.

Some of the videos, though, are ones that I have downloaded (via Firefox) and converted with iSquint.

iTunes recognizes them. They play just fine in iTunes.

After getting them into iTunes, I got into their properties (Get Information) and change the video from Movie to Music Video.

These files then filter through my integrated Smart Playlists just fine, and show up in my playlists just fine.

Only, they get skipped. The audio files play, but the video ones always get skipped.

There’s a related observation that I’ve had. It does this with podcast files – even audio. My first thought was that it was because I was pulling this music video files in via RSS in the podcast part of iTunes, but even the ones that I am manually load into iTunes get skipped.

And this does not happen with non-smart playlists. I can manually make a playlist that mixes audio and video files, and the video files play just fine. It’s the smart playlists that seems to gag on the video files.

Anyone know why? I’m searching the whole worldwide web for an answer, and not finding much.

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