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Apple Releases iTunes 12.6 With Cross-Device Movie Rental Access

Mackinjosh said:
Why would any intelligent person rent movies from iTunes? They're still the only one of the major digital rental services that limits every single rental to 24 hours once a movie has been started. Google, Sony, and Amazon all give you 48-72 hours for most rentals. Save me the Apple fanboy responses.
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I get 48 hrs
[doublepost=1490218392][/doublepost]Has anyone tried this yet? It doesn't seem to work. I've just tried renting a movie and have switched half way through from iMac to MacBookAir and it says "to continue watching the movie stop watching it on your other device", so I quit iTunes on the iMac but I still keep getting the same message on the Air…
 
jorgk said:
Just updated and indeed the MiniPlayer window got larger/bigger. Stupid change for no good reason.
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Another reason for me not to update, I used the mini player all the time on my Mac mini set up. Why can't they get something that's suppose to be so easy and intuitive to use and muk it up.
 
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Sheza said:
Holy crap, they actually did it.

Apple Music is usable on Windows again. After my carrier's 6 months free deal is over I may very well stay with Apple Music in this case...
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Same i just resubed to Google Play Music last week however after that period ends i'm going back to Apple Music.
 
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You can now open your playlists in a window again.
 

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Te0SX said:
What do you mean. It works fine. If you click X button you close the mini and go to the full app. If you press cmd+0 you go to the full app and back.

btw I really like the new mini app . Play with its size, you can hide the bar or do things.
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Wait! How do I hide the bar??? I think that would solve my problem of the miniplayer being bigger than before...
 
New build of iTunes 12.6 just show up on Mac App Store (now it´s 12.6.100, previously was 12.6.98). Probably to fix home sharing.
 
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Home sharing (as, play my ripped iTunes Movies on my Apple TV), worked great for me on iTunes 12.5
 
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I don´t understand, local music doesn't´work anymore ? (do homesharing with apple tv)
 
B/D said:
New build of iTunes 12.6 just show up on Mac App Store (now it´s 12.6.100, previously was 12.6.98). Probably to fix home sharing.
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I'm not willing to test it... yet.. I just did a Time Machine restore to get back to 12.5 so it would work again :)
 
SteveW928 said:
Oh, I see. I thought you were talking about music. I use Plex for that.
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If Apple has plans on any kind of video service... they would definitely want to limit users ability to use non-itunes-purchased or non-streamed media. (with the argument being that use can just use airplay instead)
 
B/D said:
I don´t understand, local music doesn't´work anymore ? (do homesharing with apple tv)
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No, not like it used to. You used to be able to turn on Home Sharing (or Family Sharing.... forget what it's called), and see the remote library and playlists on any device.... AND then either stream or download the track/playlist to your local device. You can still see the library and stream, but not download the tracks locally.

We have a central Mac that has our whole music library on it, and it used to be easy to just manage the local music library on an iPhone or iPad, pulling various tracks or playlists local for when on the go. Apple ruined all that a while back by removing the ability to download locally. Now, you have to subscribe to Apple Music to get that kind of functionality.

Since no one in my family currently cares much about Apple Music (we already own a pretty big collection and we're trying to lower expenses), that's a lot of money each month just to get back functionality we've had for quite a long time.
 
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RobFog said:
I'm running iOS 10 on my phone and iTunes 12.4.x on my Mac though…
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Might have been 12.3 to 12.4 then; I don't recall the specific versions, but it did force an update to iTunes 12.x before I could use it apply the iOS update.

Never had to do that with previous versions of iTunes, which would still apply iOS updates even if the combo was unsupported.
 
kevo0822 said:
Wait! How do I hide the bar??? I think that would solve my problem of the miniplayer being bigger than before...
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Sorry for late reply, like when you scroll to make it smaller, now move your mouse to the top or if you want to make the bar appear with the "next tracks" etc move your mouse to the bottom.

*Sorry for my English
 
mic j said:
They didn't. Still there. You have to bring your cursor over the miniplayer and it shows up.
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I just had mine disappear for a bit until I resized the MiniPlayer a bit, then it reappeared. I've already trained myself to hit Cmd-Shift-M to toggle between main window and MP since the last versions of iTunes had the confusing artwork/toggle button setup that always messed with me. Cmd-Shift-M still works.

The more I get used to it, it's not horrible when it works, but it is buggy. Mostly weird snapping/resizing issues. However if you don't mess with it much, it's fine. I like that you can make it a narrow column with artwork, player, and Up Next below it. That view is not compatible with split full screen apps, but should be. Hopefully they refine it a bit more before letting it sit 'til the next major revision.

EDIT: just figured out another thing I thought was a "snapping" bug where only part of the artwork would show up, but that's at a height where the player only appears on mouseover of the artwork, on mouse out you just see the artwork alone. Raising the height slightly makes it so you have the full artwork and the player also persistent. Starts making more sense the more you mess with it... :)
 
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