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Holy ****... Apple actually updated the Computers App

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ajiuo

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Million times better. Now it just need Siri support...
 
It’s a Default app that comes on the Apple TV... it’s the app that connects to iTunes via home sharing... it use to be on the Apple TV 2&3 but it wasn’t called Comuputers... but the 4 still had the same horrible UI from the Apple TV 2&3
 
ajiuo said:
It’s a Default app that comes on the Apple TV... it’s the app that connects to iTunes via home sharing... it use to be on the Apple TV 2&3 but it wasn’t called Comuputers... but the 4 still had the same horrible UI from the Apple TV 2&3
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Ah... apologies.
 
Chundles said:
They ruined the “Unwatched” section though.
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Yes, you now need to dig into your playlists for that. But then again, the recently added section compensates a little.
I really like that the layout matches that of a movies app and iTunes Store.
The best part - you get a list of cast as in the store, you can see your own movies in library featuring the same actor or director. If you've provided the metadata, of course.
 
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Since these are my personal videos I haven't put any metadata in because it wasn't displayed like this before. Looks like I'll need to get a program to sort that out. But it looks SOOOO much better even like this, and with the appropriate metadata it would look even better.
 
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I’ll get some screen shots of mine later... when I was ripping my dvd collections I did include all metadata.... I even added the iTunes ID
 
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Is there an "easy" way for me to add metadata to my collection? I looked at a few programs but they all required considerable effort at this point (200+ movies all in iTunes, ugh).
 
Here what mine looks like with everything tagged
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Even shows why is HD... like how it color matches the background.

The watched feature is indeed gone. I never used that myself. I had about 700 dvds and 100 blue rays... I think I managed to rip about 300-400 before I gave up... I’ve slowly been buying stuff on iTunes... I’ve even deleted a bunch of the ones if riped because of this.
 
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cynics said:
Is there an "easy" way for me to add metadata to my collection? I looked at a few programs but they all required considerable effort at this point (200+ movies all in iTunes, ugh).
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I like iVI myself. It looks up TV shows and movies via a couple different databases, tags the original file appropriately with description and cover art, and adds it to iTunes. It also transcodes/repacks video files if they're in formats iTunes doesn't understand. There may well be other apps that fit the bill too, but I've been using this one for a few years and it's always been solid for me.

If you were gonna use this program, and your movies are already in iTunes, you might have to pull them out onto your desktop or somewhere, delete them from iTunes, and then re-add them all via iVI. You won't have to do any transcoding since your files are all iTunes-ready and just need to be tagged. Probably iVI could go through it in like a minute per title max depending on whether your iTunes media is on an external and how fast that connection is.

Aside from the file copy part, I can't see this all taking more than a couple hours? And most of that would be unattended "waiting for it to finish" time.
 
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ignatius345 said:
I like iVI myself. It looks up TV shows and movies via a couple different databases, tags the original file appropriately with description and cover art, and adds it to iTunes. It also transcodes/repacks video files if they're in formats iTunes doesn't understand (.mkv and the like). There may well be other apps that fit the bill too, but I've been using this one for a few years and it's always been solid for me.

If you were gonna use this program, and your movies are already in iTunes, you might have to pull them out onto your desktop or somewhere, delete them from iTunes, and then re-add them all via iVI. You won't have to do any transcoding since your files are all iTunes-ready and just need to be tagged. Probably iVI could go through it in like a minute per title max depending on whether your iTunes media is on an external and how fast that connection is.

Aside from the file copy part, I can't see this all taking more than a couple hours? And most of that would be unattended "waiting for it to finish" time.
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Thanks for help. I'll look into iVI. That was kind of the same conditions I was running into with other programs.

I can't believe I spent the time transcoding movies to near perfection (sometimes multiple times to get it right) and then skipped this crucial step.
 
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Looks really nice.

We always used to use the computer app to watch our ripped dvds-we’ve always bought then ripped, and the original iTunes interface wasn’t very nice.

We finally got tired of itunes, though, because even though it was playing local rips, it would always authenticate to Apple. Which stopped everything from working when our internet went out.

We went to plex, and this looks exactly the same. Nice upgrade! And thanks for the tip on iVI.
 
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Since these are my personal videos I haven't put any metadata in because it wasn't displayed like this before. Looks like I'll need to get a program to sort that out. But it looks SOOOO much better even like this, and with the appropriate metadata it would look even better.
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I recommend iflicks
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cynics said:
Is there an "easy" way for me to add metadata to my collection? I looked at a few programs but they all required considerable effort at this point (200+ movies all in iTunes, ugh).
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Been using iflicks a few years
If the file is mkv mp4 and your not converting video or audio , it shouldn’t take more than a minute to add metadata to a movie
[doublepost=1507768977][/doublepost]This update is nice but I ain’t going back after using plex
 
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priitv8 said:
The best part - you get a list of cast as in the store, you can see your own movies in library featuring the same actor or director. If you've provided the metadata, of course.
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All those years of tagging movies is finally paying off!
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cynics said:
Is there an "easy" way for me to add metadata to my collection? I looked at a few programs but they all required considerable effort at this point (200+ movies all in iTunes, ugh).
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I use Subler, which is fantastically easy, but 200+ movies is still going to take time. Subler pulls data from iTunes or IMDB - I prefer iTunes as it'll pull the IDs so that you can have two different versions of the same movie - one HD and one for iDevices - and they'll be shown as one entry in iTunes with the "HD-SD" tag.

Subler pulls the iTunes poster art too, so it looks good when up on your home theater screen, and it's devoid of all the usual movie poster crap.

It's really quick to tag and save - once you get familiar with it you can do a movie in less than a minute. Once you've tagged a movie, just "Get Info" for it in iTunes and that'll prompt iTunes to pull down all that lovely new metadata.

Subler is free.
 
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This has forced me to move to Plex - I cannot find unplayed episodes across multiple TV series and seasons - it's a UX nightmare.
 
lol.. I almost fell off my chair, literally ...

Siri would be good, particularly the "tick" (watched TV show) does not always appear. My only hope if Siri as implement its would be smarter to know which episode has actually been watched then just look at what's been ticked or not (which would be useless)

This could just be due to content.. but i've noticed it does automatically tick watched TV seasons (all shows) but not other content.
 
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