So I finally broke down and bought an ATV, the $69 version about a month ago. I just got around to setting it up this past week and I'm impressed with some aspects of the user interface. Signing in uses the same lame array of letters scrolling around one letter at a time most other devices such as Tivo use, but the rest of the ATV interface is beautiful, except...
I decided to play songs from one of my iTunes playlist. I was enjoying it but decided I wanted to listen to iTunes Radio and hear something new. This wouldn't be a problem except when I started listening to the classical channel by picking it with the select button on my remote, my jazz resumed playing at the same time. The only way I could stop it was by hitting the play/pause button on the remote. This lead to some silly situations. For instance, if I wanted to sign in to iCloud, for every. single. letter. in my username and password for which I hit select, my playlist play would alternately resume and pause. This has to be some sort of bug. Should I restart the ATV? I've searched mroogle and can't find this issue.
On Apple communities someone reported that to solve this they had to turn off the infrared receiver on their laptop. Only one problem. I don't have a laptop in the room, it's at the other end of the house on a different floor. In the same room as the ATV, I have a Mac mini buried under a desk that I'm pretty sure can't "see" my ATV remote. Besides, isn't ATV supposed to play my playlist from iTunes in the cloud rather than rely on a nearby Mac anyway?
I decided to play songs from one of my iTunes playlist. I was enjoying it but decided I wanted to listen to iTunes Radio and hear something new. This wouldn't be a problem except when I started listening to the classical channel by picking it with the select button on my remote, my jazz resumed playing at the same time. The only way I could stop it was by hitting the play/pause button on the remote. This lead to some silly situations. For instance, if I wanted to sign in to iCloud, for every. single. letter. in my username and password for which I hit select, my playlist play would alternately resume and pause. This has to be some sort of bug. Should I restart the ATV? I've searched mroogle and can't find this issue.
On Apple communities someone reported that to solve this they had to turn off the infrared receiver on their laptop. Only one problem. I don't have a laptop in the room, it's at the other end of the house on a different floor. In the same room as the ATV, I have a Mac mini buried under a desk that I'm pretty sure can't "see" my ATV remote. Besides, isn't ATV supposed to play my playlist from iTunes in the cloud rather than rely on a nearby Mac anyway?
