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How to Change the TV Library Name in the MacOS TV.app?

In iTunes, it was Settings > General > Library Name… not anymore. Have they really removed this?


(macOS Monterey)


TIA,

Apple TV 4K, tvOS 16

Posted on Oct 19, 2022 5:27 AM

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Posted on Oct 19, 2022 8:19 AM

On macOS 10.15 or later, the Home Sharing settings, including library name, are now set in System Preferences﹥Sharing﹥☑︎ Media Sharing﹥☑︎ Home Sharing﹥.


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Oct 19, 2022 8:19 AM in response to TimDanaher

On macOS 10.15 or later, the Home Sharing settings, including library name, are now set in System Preferences﹥Sharing﹥☑︎ Media Sharing﹥☑︎ Home Sharing﹥.


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Oct 20, 2022 7:31 AM in response to Urquhart1244

I created two TV libraries by option-launching the TV app: the first I changed the name using Sharing preferences to ‘Onboard’ (on the internal SSD of the Mac Studio) and then I created one called ‘Outboard’ on an external disk. I option-relaunch the TV app, and choose the ‘Onboard’ library and, when I go back into Sharing preferences, it’s still saying that ‘Outboard’ is the currently selected library…


surely it should have updated to the name of the currently selected library?

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Oct 22, 2022 3:06 AM in response to Urquhart1244

I created two libraries because I wanted to test the responsiveness of having my TV library on a larger, external disk. Although that’s all really rather academic now, seeing as I spent a day reinstalling Monterey onto my Mac Studio, because of the problems I was having with it and now it won’t boot…

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Oct 22, 2022 5:39 AM in response to TimDanaher

[…] now it won’t boot…

I’m sorry to hear that. Get that fixed first, then come back to home sharing, if you want to continue with that.


[…] test the responsiveness of having my TV library on a larger, external disk.

You wouldn’t need a new library for external files. Just set the app preferences to not consolidate (new) library files to the internal disk. In my experience, responsiveness is fine, unless the external disk has to wake from sleep mode.

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How to Change the TV Library Name in the MacOS TV.app?

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