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Genius Feature for Movies and TV Shows Activated in iTunes 8.1
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IIRC, Genius for music was pretty poor at first but improved as more people's data was accumulated. Maybe this works the same way?
iTunes manages with user added music, but I guess that has more metadata to identify the song with in the first place.
Sounds like it could be handy having a utility that adds the cnID for all movies in iTunes that are also in the iTunes movie store.
Cheers, Ed.
With some codecs, yes its terrible. Same with Quicktime vs. VLC.
Embarrassing that free VLC is 10X better than Quicktime.
Yet where are VLC's encoding abilities? Sigh.
Why is it embarrassing that vlc is 'better' than quicktime? Can't think of anyone more knowledgeable about av than people at projects like ffmpeg etc - embarrassing that they bother producing their own software and not embracing oss maybe? Imagine how great and happy and flowery the (IT) world would be if companies like apple always did the right thing, chose the right software and contributed back to the right places.
Sensicle
ps. vlc can encode videos just fine btw. If you want a simple gui (for the same software) you could try handbrake as suggested earlier.
Yeah, I was hoping it would use the metadata stored in the mp4 files... it's one of the reasons I've been adding actors/directors and ensuring all of my tags are accurate. Oh well.
Except the "genius" is recommending utterly random crap based on nothing in particular.
Workin' for me... but,
It's been updated and works pretty good on my TV Shows, but as far as the movies go, it only recognizes what I've actually purchased or rented in iTunes, not any of the movies that I've legally backed up onto my hard drive for digital viewing. Any one have any suggestions.
It's been updated and works pretty good on my TV Shows, but as far as the movies go, it only recognizes what I've actually purchased or rented in iTunes, not any of the movies that I've legally backed up onto my hard drive for digital viewing.
Any one have any suggestions.Forget Genius, how about season passes?
There is a large contingent of Season Pass subscribers that would like to be able to download the content that they've already purchased. The 8.1 update broke Season Passes for a lot of users, and here is the response from support:
" Unfortunately, this has been brought to Apple's attention as an iTunes Application problem. It can be fixed by going to an earlier version of iTunes.
Apple is currently working toward a resolution for the issue you have reported. You will receive an email after the matter has been investigated and further information is available."
There is a large contingent of Season Pass subscribers that would like to be able to download the content that they've already purchased. The 8.1 update broke Season Passes for a lot of users, and here is the response from support:
" Unfortunately, this has been brought to Apple's attention as an iTunes Application problem. It can be fixed by going to an earlier version of iTunes.
Apple is currently working toward a resolution for the issue you have reported. You will receive an email after the matter has been investigated and further information is available."
I'd be curious to see a poll here on how many people actually use the Genius feature in iTunes. It's been there for a while now, and I've never yet had reason to use it. I try to shut it off as soon as possible as it just takes up space I'd rather use for other things.
I use it to create playlists and I think it works well. I don't use it for purchase recommendations.
Mine seem to be working. My iTunes downloaded the latest episode of a Season Pass purchase this morning. Hope it gets worked out for others...
kinda useless atm
so the store works more and more like Amazon ( which is a good thing ). Genius is really useful for music, especially when you have 10,000+ songs but most people don't really need even a search engine for finding a particular video in their library. It'll be interesting if Apple starts offering indie videos or shorts for little or no cost. Then I might actually use genius for videos.
so the store works more and more like Amazon ( which is a good thing ). Genius is really useful for music, especially when you have 10,000+ songs but most people don't really need even a search engine for finding a particular video in their library. It'll be interesting if Apple starts offering indie videos or shorts for little or no cost. Then I might actually use genius for videos.
With some codecs, yes its terrible. Same with Quicktime vs. VLC.
Embarrassing that free VLC is 10X better than Quicktime.
Yet where are VLC's encoding abilities? Sigh.
I like VLC but it still seems very buggy. Sometimes when I skip a video it takes a second or 2 before the image shows up, sometimes happens when I first play a vid too. And sometimes theres some crazy green mesh that shows up (OSX and XP version on all my computers!). I find VLC best for loading a vid and pressing play. But for anything I need precise control with QT is required.
I don't think they ever said that. I think that was just wishful thinking from all of us 1st gen classic owners.
I love Genius for songs. And I like the Netflix "recommends" feature. Maybe this would be just as nice, I just can't say. But I know I never once felt like I this was something that was really "missing".
I tried out Boxee for a bit (ultimately since I couldn't access Hulu - living in Canada - or stream any of the other video services, I ended up just using my own library and I prefered the Apple TV interface) and loved the social networking aspect of it. Not only the recommendations part, but I really enjoyed being able to add friends and see what they've watched recently (movies and TV shows). I don't know how, but I'd love to see Apple somehow integrate something similar to social networking with Apple TV (or even iTunes) so I could see what my friends are watching and what recommendations they have.
I agree that Genius is great for songs, but I think the video use of Genius is different in that you can go through 10-20 songs in under and hour, whereas with TV shows that would be several hours. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but for the music it's great to put together a playlist on-the-go, I would probably use the Genius feature more to learn about new TV shows that I would be considered in but wouldn't be watching right away.
What does this have to do with the Genius feature being enabled for movies and TV shows?