Comments on: What About Audio on Apple TV?

By: Michael P.

Michael P. — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:21:05 +0000

Sorry, resync, not rsync.

By: Michael P.

Michael P. — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:06:30 +0000

@Bill G. – Regarding streaming, I believe you would have to rsync (recreate?) the playlist. Like I said, it is a crummy work around.

By: Bill G.

Bill G. — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:54:11 +0000

@Kris – another good point.

Take a look at this link: http://news.digitaltrends.com/feature/76/apple-tv-heat-test

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:39:29 +0000

Concerning Visualizers on AppleTV: I’ve heard from someone on the AppleTV team that running visualizers consumes a lot of power, in turn creating way more heat. There have been complaints that the ATV already runs too hot.

By: Bill G.

Bill G. — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:07:36 +0000

@Mikey R – doesn’t Apple TV do this – when you select an album there is shuffle option as the top option. Maybe streaming is different? Either way a needed feature.

@Galley – good point.

@Michael P – I tried this and it worked, once. What’s the key to keeping it working?

@davek – agreed.

@gordon – take a look at Last.FM app. While playing a song it tells you about the artist. Apple TV could have a Genius side bar which promotes other songs and artist info. If course, web surfing is available for a hacked Apple TV…

By: gordon

gordon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:24:48 +0000

How the Apple TV lacks visualizers is beyond me. Thanks for calling that out. I’d add SIRIUS XM radio to the list of support – shouldn’t be too difficult. Speaking of artist/band info on screen – any idea why there isn’t a web browser on Apple TV? With iPhone as a solid input device, the Apple TV could be the ultimate couch web surfing device. Yes I know the Mac Mini can handle, but it just seems that for the “price” of a download to the Apple TV and taking up hard drive space, it should be able to handle it (I kinda want to watch hulu and other on-demand web video)

By: davek

davek — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:50:42 +0000

there needs to be a way to shuttle songs within playlists while u are already playing your music instead of that one option to begin with “random” before u choose what so g u begin with

By: Michael P.

Michael P. — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:52:28 +0000

If you create an iTunes playlist that contains radio stations, then sync it to the appletv, you can stream them directly from the device. It’s a crummy workaround, but it works.

By: Galley

Galley — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:00:03 +0000

How about the ability to separate similarly-titled albums? If the iPhone Remote app can do it, why not Apple TV? I just happen to have 44 albums titled “Gold” and 45 titled “Greatest Hits”.

By: Mikey R.

Mikey R. — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:05:11 +0000

The ability to shuffle by album.

I find myself constantly streaming my music to the Apple TV (even though I have more than enough storage to keep it all) simply because iTunes has the capability to shuffle by album.

My old iPod did this. iTunes does this. Why can’t Apple TV and the new iPod / iPhones do this?