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40,000+ photo library takes forever to load.

My 40,000+ photo library takes about 5 minutes to load on my Apple TV. This is to be expected, because 40k photos is a lot! But surely the Apple TV could use the included 8GB NAND to store/cache the photo list and metadata so that it doesn't have to sync it every time? The lag makes it painful enough to sit through that I end up not even wanting to view photos with my Apple TV.

MacBookPro 15" / Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz / 4GB RAM / NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 6, 2010 5:33 PM

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HeyJP

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Posted on Oct 6, 2010 5:36 PM

Yeah, I've found the same thing. Takes a LONG time to load the images, then as soon as you navigate somewhere else, you gotta start over. Not usable.

On the other hand, I have my screensaver setup to show images from a 100 or so image MobileMe gallery. That loads quickly and works fine. In fact, I had my network down for reconfiguring, and my AppleTV started playing the MobileMe images without network access. So it must have cached that smaller set.

So it does SOME caching of images. Just don't know how much and when.

Jim

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Jan 1, 2011 8:52 PM in response to jsnod

Another me too post - I have about 35,000 photos in my Aperture Library, and I gave up after 5 minutes waiting for the photos to load. I have to select only one or two events for the photos to actually load in relatively quickly.

Big disappointment from an otherwise top-caliber device. Surely Apple could find a way to share just the album listing, then each event individually 'just in time' to the ATV, right?

Jan 3, 2011 11:49 PM in response to Jeff Geerling

hey
same problem here. I bought the new apple tv for a friend who is an avid photographer. get it setup and the music works great as well as the iTunes store. we go to do pictures however (he has a 20,000+ library) and it is poop slow.....

I've been pulling my hair out over the last week trying to troubleshoot thinking it was maybe anything else except the apple tv (we even ran out and got a faster and more powerful router)....

so disappointing....let's hope apple fixes this pronto

peace will

Jan 10, 2011 9:48 AM in response to jsnod

I bought the new AppleTV only for slideshow feature. And now I discover this unbelievable limit.
Also there is no way to filter the file formats (I keep NEF and JPEG files in the same folder).
Unuseful device.

jaredean

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Jan 14, 2011 11:30 AM in response to figiazziIta

it is doubtful the NEF files are being seen/read by the ATV because that is a RAW file format. I'm sure it is filtering out those by default - i doubt you are seeing doubles during slideshows, correct?

Jan 16, 2011 1:29 AM in response to jaredean

@jaredean

I suppose iTunes does a sort of transcoding of my D700 NEF files (supported natively by the Mac Os) and send them to AppleTV. The result is the duplicated slides.

Ciao,
F.

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jaredean

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Jan 17, 2011 10:16 AM in response to figiazziIta

Wow, that is surprising and a bit annoying - you should have more control over what files are streamed. I've moved all of my NEF files to a "digital negative" type of folder, but still have 35,000+ files and can't stand the way ATV2 streams...

MarioZ!

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Feb 13, 2011 12:23 PM in response to jsnod

I have just under 20K photos and just assumed some hiccup every time I saw the spinning ball. I can't believe some people have actually timed it for 2 hours or more. I've always gone to the time honoured Apple tradition of a reboot and that seems to work just fine. This may be an overly simple suggestion but try restarting your Apple TV2 and then load your library again--takes seconds the second time around...

LZCenter

Level 1

4 points

Feb 15, 2011 1:31 PM in response to MarioZ!

Has anyone seen a specific response from Apple? I contacted their hot line and got a very poor response that basically said, yep...it *****!

I am, right now, going on 10 minutes to load 25 pix. Plus I guess it has to be done all over again any time I navigate away from photos?

The bizarre thing is that I just came back from my son's house and his ATV2 works perfectly.

Apr 18, 2011 10:24 AM in response to jsnod

hey

anyone have an update on this? there has been an update released for the apple tv right?

thanks

will

Jan 27, 2013 4:19 AM in response to nojohnny101

I fear I have made a BIG mistake by buying an Apple TV - immedately it runs into the "downloading for ever" problem described here from years ago (and I am only trying at the moment with around 15000 out of a photo library of some 60000)

What really amazes me is that, on this the "official" forum for rasing and discussing problems, NO-ONE from Apple has even had the courtesy to address this problem and suggest ways round. I guess there aren't any - other than, perhaps, acquiring iPhoto. Well most of us need yet another photo management and updating tool like we need a hole in the head.

And it isn't just photos - Movies has a similar problem

I have a piddling £1.99 app which does a far better job of accessing my photos and movies on my NASD and delivering them to another device than Apple TV manages!

Please, can anyone suggest ways of overcoming this weakness in iTunes/Apple TV?

vazandrew

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Apr 3, 2014 7:05 PM in response to Solivageoust

This is a user forum, you are not addressing Apple nor should you expect a response from them here.

If you have something you need to direct to them you can use the form.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

40,000+ photo library takes forever to load.