new "home videos" on appletv

chenks · Dec 15, 2012, 06:24 AM

i have some content in iTunes 11 and have set it to the new "home videos" category.

how do i see this on the appletv? doesn't appear to be an option to see them.

chambord · Dec 15, 2012, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by chenks

i have some content in iTunes 11 and have set it to the new "home videos" category.

how do i see this on the appletv? doesn't appear to be an option to see them.

You can thank Apple for just completely neglecting AppleTV. AppleTV still can't sort TV shows just by show. Sure, iTunes does it great now. But AppleTV still has to list each season individually, which makes it suck for browsing shows

QWERTYMac7 · Dec 15, 2012, 06:56 AM

You should be able to find your 'home movies' on the AppleTV by scrolling to the top and sliding over to Genre.

Best of luck!

chenks · Dec 15, 2012, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by QWERTYMac7

You should be able to find your 'home movies' on the AppleTV by scrolling to the top and sliding over to Genre.

Best of luck!

that's a workaround though, not a positive solution.

what if the "genre" is comedy, it's going to be in amongst all the movies that also have comedy as the genre.

mic j · Dec 15, 2012, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by chenks

that's a workaround though, not a positive solution.

what if the "genre" is comedy, it's going to be in amongst all the movies that also have comedy as the genre.

You make "home videos" that are comedies, drama's, horror, etc? Most of mine are the kid laying on the floor slobbering.

chenks · Dec 15, 2012, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by mic j

You make "home videos" that are comedies, drama's, horror, etc? Most of mine are the kid laying on the floor slobbering.

so which genre would that fall into then? "kids & family"? as i have various proper movies that fall into that genre too.

as i said, accessing them via the genre listing is a workaround, it can't be deemed a proper way of accessing them.

it seems the appletv engineers forgot to liase with itunes engineers (as usual).

mic j · Dec 15, 2012, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by chenks

so which genre would that fall into then? "kids & family"? as i have various proper movies that fall into that genre too.

as i said, accessing them via the genre listing is a workaround, it can't be deemed a proper way of accessing them.

it seems the appletv engineers forgot to liase with itunes engineers (as usual).

It's just that all my "Home Movies" are truly that "Home Movies", and so the "Home Movies" genre fits. I don't have Home Movies-Comedy, Home Movies-Drama, etc. However, to your point, I would love to see the aTV menu reflect the same categories Music, Movies, Home Movies, TV Shows as iTunes provides. It's just demonstrates good integration between the 2 systems.

From A Buick 8 · Dec 15, 2012, 10:23 AM

My work around for all of this is playlist and play list folders. I have created a playlist folder for each TV show and inside that a smart playlist for each season. I also create a folder for home moves and a smart playlist for each event or year etc...

I would like apple to update the ATV to better match the new iTunes 11 but for now this method works for me.

slothrob · Dec 15, 2012, 11:11 AM

Putting Home Movies in their own Genre seems like an appropriate solution to me...but then I always browse movies on my aTV through the Genre listing. Otherwise it would take 5 minutes to scroll through the whole list.

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Originally Posted by mic j

It's just that all my "Home Movies" are truly that "Home Movies", and so the "Home Movies" genre fits. I don't have Home Movies-Comedy, Home Movies-Drama, etc.

If it really was the case that someone felt they had multiple Genres of Home Movies, though, there is nothing that would keep them from creating Genres called "Home Movies - Comedy", etc., if that is what they want.

chenks · Dec 15, 2012, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by slothrob

Putting Home Movies in their own Genre seems like an appropriate solution to me...but then I always browse movies on my aTV through the Genre listing. Otherwise it would take 5 minutes to scroll through the whole list.

the appropriate solution would be for "home videos" to be listed on the appletv like all the other content.

they would still be listed within genres even with the above method of accessing them be supported.

Michael CM1 · Dec 15, 2012, 08:13 PM

Home movies are not a genre, they are a video type like movies and TV shows.

What I had done previously is created a Home Videos genre for that type stuff. Then I created a smart playlist for them. That's probably the best solution until an ATav update to address it.

Chundles · Dec 15, 2012, 08:14 PM

It will need to be added to the next software update.

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chenks macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: UK	new "home videos" on appletv i have some content in iTunes 11 and have set it to the new "home videos" category. how do i see this on the appletv? doesn't appear to be an option to see them.
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From A Buick 8 macrumors 68020 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Ky Close to CinCinnati	My work around for all of this is playlist and play list folders. I have created a playlist folder for each TV show and inside that a smart playlist for each season. I also create a folder for home moves and a smart playlist for each event or year etc... I would like apple to update the ATV to better match the new iTunes 11 but for now this method works for me. __________________ Homemade Interocitor,iPhone 5 32GB Black & Slate, iPod Touch 4th and 5th Gen, iPad 1st gen, iPhone 4, Two Apple TV's, -- 21.5-inch: 3.2GHz Intel Core i3 iMac.
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Michael CM1 macrumors 601 Join Date: Feb 2008	Home movies are not a genre, they are a video type like movies and TV shows. What I had done previously is created a Home Videos genre for that type stuff. Then I created a smart playlist for them. That's probably the best solution until an ATav update to address it. __________________ 21.5" iMac 3.06 Ghz, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD; iPhone 4S 16GB; third-gen iPad WiFi black 32 GB; third-gen TV
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Chundles macrumors G4 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: The Gong, Australia	It will need to be added to the next software update. __________________ This is going straight to the Pool Room
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QWERTYMac7 macrumors member Join Date: Nov 2012	You should be able to find your 'home movies' on the AppleTV by scrolling to the top and sliding over to Genre. Best of luck!
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