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Why? That's a terrible user experience. It is not surprising that Apple doesn't allow that.

You're just revealing your own ignorance and sense of entitlement, in pretending that what actually matters...doesn't, so that it can work out in your own mind.

Why is it a terrible idea? All my content in iTunes have a name, it is catorgaized by media type. That's more that enough information to get started on an index that Siri voice search can utilize. let's say I imported non standard content into iTunes, I as the content owner would know the non-standard naming convention to recall my content by. There is lots of meta data to pull from to form a search, i.e. Date, name, media type, phonics, last played, recently imported or added, the fact that content search will be limited to My Computer will also help narrow down the search query. So the say this is a terrible idea is ill informed. Voice search of my local content on my new Apple TV is way over due. If I can think of these indexable items, I'm sure the geniuses at Apple can think of way more to get the ball rolling and have users enjoying their Apple tvs to the maximum. Scrolling down a long list of videos in from your iTunes library with that sensitive remote is not a fun experience. Just saying.

 

[JRobinsonJr]

Why? That's a terrible user experience. It is not surprising that Apple doesn't allow that.

You're just revealing your own ignorance and sense of entitlement, in pretending that what actually matters...doesn't, so that it can work out in your own mind.

Wow. Isn't that a bit harsh?

Indexing and playing local content may not be important for you, but for many of us it is. I have lots of local content based on home movies that is fully tagged. Having that searching would be very nice for me and many others.

 

[TurboPGT!]

Wow. Isn't that a bit harsh?

Indexing and playing local content may not be important for you, but for many of us it is. I have lots of local content based on home movies that is fully tagged. Having that searching would be very nice for me and many others.

It's important to me too. But given the depth of the experience Apple has cooked into Siri (which is far more than finding a title by name), I can see them not wanting to include content that is not as deeply searchable as the rest.

e.g. Apple would not consider it a good user experience if the following query "Caddyshack" returned results from your library, as well as others, but the query "Movies with Ted Knight" only showed the others.

 

[heathen3017]

Why? That's a terrible user experience. It is not surprising that Apple doesn't allow that.

You're just revealing your own ignorance and sense of entitlement, in pretending that what actually matters...doesn't, so that it can work out in your own mind.

You're kidding, right? You obviously can't be that short-sighted. There is NO REASON why I can't say "Play Terminator 2", and it finds in MY OWN LIBRARY the filmed named Terminator 2 and plays it. Also, "Play Doug's Fifth Birthday Party", "Play Wedding Video", etc...

For you to think that would be a "terrible experience" is ludicrous at best.

 

[GIZBUG]

So, how is it running for people?

 

[GIZBUG]

Must not be that stable as no answers...

 

[JRobinsonJr]

It's important to me too. But given the depth of the experience Apple has cooked into Siri (which is far more than finding a title by name), I can see them not wanting to include content that is not as deeply searchable as the rest.

e.g. Apple would not consider it a good user experience if the following query "Caddyshack" returned results from your library, as well as others, but the query "Movies with Ted Knight" only showed the others.

Perhaps not - and that could indeed be a use case - but there are far more use cases that COULD be a good experience.

1. What about my own movies? No, I'm not referring to rips. I'm talking about movies of family events, kids plays, etc. We've all got them. I could give them a name and it shouldn't be too much for Siri to find them by name / date / etc. based on whatever meta-data is available.

2. I sorta agree with commercial movies, but again it should be based on meta-data. I do have rips... and have gone to great lengths to make sure there is a lot of meta-data available.

In addition, one use case that is not discussed (so far except by me) is the notion of using my local iTunes like a network cache for streaming content. Movies could be downloaded (streaming) to the local library THEN to my AppleTV. After that the devices should be smart enough to play the local instance rather than re-streaming from the internet.

Just my 2-cents