on new apple tv can't get music with photo slideshow
How do I get music to play during photo slideshow on new apple tv.
iPhone 5, iOS 8.4
Yeah, I can't find that option either.
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For now at least you'll need to start music from the music app then start the slideshow.
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Since this was a standard feature on the previous version of Apple TV you would think that this was a mistake in the new version. On the old Apple TV the music selection was built in to the photo slideshow options and was easy to setup.
But the Apple TV 4 isn't built on the previous software, they've essentially started again, there is no logic in assuming things that were part of the old system will be part of the new one, either now or in the future.
Yep - this feels a bit like the FCP7 vs FCPX debacle. Major step change and reinvention leading to reduced functionality on the initial release.
Presumably the stuff that people scream most about will be reinstated, stuff that people don't notice won't be...
Photo slideshow has some other problems: If I select Shuffle off, Repeat photos off, it plays about 8-10 of the 76 and shuts the slideshow off and returns to the option list. If I make Shuffle off, Repeat photos on, it plays maybe 10-15 of the 76 then repeats photos it has already shown over and over before showing a new photo in the stream. I would think "Repeat Photos" would mean at the end of the album start at the beginning again, but the random repeats over and over in the middle is frustrating.
Also with the music and the photo slideshow initiated separately when you back up from an album slideshow to the photos starting screen it shuts the music off and you have to double start all the time.
Photo slideshow has some other problems: If I....
I'm unable to replicate that behaviour
Also with the music and the photo slideshow initiated separately when you back up from an album slideshow to the photos starting screen it shuts the music off and you have to double start all the time.
I'm unable to replicate that behaviour too.
It works fine for me it just has no option to start music from the slideshow settings.
Interesting, I have two new apple tv's and they both act the same. The most disturbing problem is playback of the photos in sequence without duplicates to the end of an album and then repeat or not back from the beginning does not happen on my two. That's the way the previous version worked. I can deal with the music being separate. As I stated earlier one situation is definitely a bug is that when running a photo slideshow with shuffle off and repeat off after a dozen or so photos, it varies, the slideshow stops and goes back to the slideshow options screen and stops. Of course the music keeps playing, ha, that's one good thing from initiating from the slideshow screen, the music stops when the slideshow does. I don't know about other users, but I use photo slideshow a lot more than the other features. Every day I am looking at pictures taken on iphone and other sources, or showing off albums of the over 15,000 photos on my iMac.
Then it may be something to do with your photos, it's not a bug, as I say I can't reproduce the issue
What options do you select when starting the slideshow? Are you viewing a album? If repeat is on does it go all the way to last photo and start again? So, no duplicates of photos are shown? My photos are on a iMac, yours? It is read over wifi, yours? I have over 7,000 photos, maybe it's the size of the library. I am using 64Gb Apple TV's. I really want to solve this, I am a amateur photographer and use this feature often. Thanks for all the inputs.
I'll check all this later on for you.
Thank you very much. FYI, I ran the same slideshow from my iMac and it worked perfectly. As of 11/2 the symptoms have stayed constant from my Apple TV's.
I see something similar with regard to the photos looping. It will play some, then play a few from earlier, then resume. Same album doesn't do that on the ATV 3 or 2. same settings that you had.
I'm wondering if it isn't doing that while getting the next images. It is odd because it is running on gigabit ethernet, so it shouldn't be bandwidth constrained.
Overall, it is a good upgrade, but it has some rough edges.
Sorry it's taken a while, but I've now been able to do some further testing.
Yes, if I choose large slideshows, I'm able to repeat this. It wasn't happening for those with a few dozen in, which is what I was using for testing since many more and it starts to get difficult to know whether you have seen them or not especially after a few loops. Once I put a large ( say 100) slideshow on, I started to see it throw a few slides in that had been shown before, however other than these 're-shows' it maintain the order of the album.
on new apple tv can't get music with photo slideshow