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Apple Updates Remote App with iPad and Retina Display Support
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This is an iTunes Remote. Not an iPhoto Remote.
This doesn't allow you to browse Netflix, etc. from the iPhone either.
Unfortunately, it still does not allow you to control the other features of the Apple TV. For example, you can't use the remote to type, or to navigate the menus, etc. Searching for a youtube video by typing is painful on AppleTV... would be nice to use the iPad as a remote for functions like this.
In fact, the new release seems less functional in some ways. I recall the old remote app allowing touch gestures that would be transmitted to the Apple TV for navigation.
They did a nice job on the interface and allowing to to control movie and song selection and playback. Too bad they stopped there.
In fact, the new release seems less functional in some ways. I recall the old remote app allowing touch gestures that would be transmitted to the Apple TV for navigation.
They did a nice job on the interface and allowing to to control movie and song selection and playback. Too bad they stopped there.
That sucks. A big plus of this would be using it to type in order to search for a piece of content.
damn retina making some of my low-res artwork look bad. lol.
Quite possibly the coolest thing on the ipad is the ability to create new playlists.
Quite possibly the coolest thing on the ipad is the ability to create new playlists.
The point of videos being?
Someone hinted at something to do with Video support in 4.2 so this might answer the point I am about to make.
The iPad update is very nice, especially cosmetically. With all my Movies and TV Shows listed just as they are on my main iTunes I suppose I was naive in thinking that this update might replicate the functionality of Air Video and let you play video on your iPad at the same time as triggering it on your Mac.
What is the point of it otherwise? Being in your dining room with your iPad and calling up music to play there makes perfect sense, what use is it to be in your dining room and call up an episode of Mad Men on your iPad when you have to be at your monitor or TV + Apple TV to actually watch it? You can do this just as readily using your mouse and Mac iTunes, or your Apple TV remote.
Someone hinted at something to do with Video support in 4.2 so this might answer the point I am about to make.
The iPad update is very nice, especially cosmetically. With all my Movies and TV Shows listed just as they are on my main iTunes I suppose I was naive in thinking that this update might replicate the functionality of Air Video and let you play video on your iPad at the same time as triggering it on your Mac.
What is the point of it otherwise? Being in your dining room with your iPad and calling up music to play there makes perfect sense, what use is it to be in your dining room and call up an episode of Mad Men on your iPad when you have to be at your monitor or TV + Apple TV to actually watch it? You can do this just as readily using your mouse and Mac iTunes, or your Apple TV remote.
That is completely false information. Even before the update the Remote app allowed you to type in searches on the Apple TV from your iPhone and navigate the menus of the Apple TV. I'm not sure where you're getting your information from.
If I understand your set up correctly, yes, you have to have iTunes running in order to play music from your music library. Assuming you have iPhone/touch/iPad, you can control the music remotely and not have your TV on. That's what I do now w/(old) AppleTV.
Ugh, some of my album artwork looks horrible on the ipad. It was "good enough" for the Mac and iPhone. Now it's very grainy.
Anyone know of places to get high quality cover art of CD's?
Sorry - should've googled first. http://www.albumartexchange.com/
Anyone know of places to get high quality cover art of CD's?
Sorry - should've googled first. http://www.albumartexchange.com/
There are some serious flaws that should have kept this from being released. The iPad version looks great, very similar to the iPod on the iPad. However, the functionality to AirTunes speakers from your mac library is very buggy. It will play from your iPad to your apple tv, yet when you look at your mac the song scrubber is not moving at all. Repeatedly, I've found big differences and sometimes it will not play properly to the AirPlay speakers at all. Not the case with the iPhone version.
The BIGGEST issue is that if you have a large catalog for an artist (for me, I tried the Beatles, Phish, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, and Miles Davis), it will not load the songs at all. You see the album titles listed, with blank space beneath, but no songs. It seems this is for all artists that have over 1,000 songs. I have a LOT of these in my library, so it really makes the iPad remote useless when I can't play a single song from numerous artists.
Who knows how long this will take to get fixed, but I doubt it will be very timely given their poor track record with this app
The BIGGEST issue is that if you have a large catalog for an artist (for me, I tried the Beatles, Phish, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, and Miles Davis), it will not load the songs at all. You see the album titles listed, with blank space beneath, but no songs. It seems this is for all artists that have over 1,000 songs. I have a LOT of these in my library, so it really makes the iPad remote useless when I can't play a single song from numerous artists.
Who knows how long this will take to get fixed, but I doubt it will be very timely given their poor track record with this app
I agree. I was thinking the same way. Apparently, it reads the way you have your iTunes currently viewing set up. For instance, if you have selected "Album by Artist" as your viewing selection within your desktop iTunes app, it will display songs out of alphabetical order, but instead by "Album by Artist." To view a true alphabetical listing of your songs, you first have to select the "Music" main tab on the left, then the view by "Name" tab within the iTunes app on your desktop. Now your songs should show up alphabetically. This, I agree, should be fixed.
Personal experience, with 1.0 and 2.0. It sounds like I've missed something obvious though
I recall other forum posts complaining about the inability to do this when the remote app first came out. Was the ability to use the iPhone as a remote keyboard for the Apple TV added after the initial 1.0 release?I also don't see the feature in 2.0 at all. All I see are iTunes library type functions.
I'd appreciate some help on where to find the features, and sorry- didn't mean to spread false info.
Individual volume control? Help
I have 2 AE stations, i can't control the volume to each box separately any ideas why? Running on 1st gen iPhone 3.1.3 - is this a 4.x feature?
Cheers.
I have 2 AE stations, i can't control the volume to each box separately any ideas why? Running on 1st gen iPhone 3.1.3 - is this a 4.x feature?
Cheers.
Bravo, almost 10 months since the iPad was announced and this is finally upgraded.
This is a textbook example of how not to do something.
Wah wah wah. Cry me a river white man.
The remote app has keyboard and gesture control more than two years.Personal experience, with 1.0 and 2.0. It sounds like I've missed something obvious though
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/remote/id284417350?mt=8#
Gesture control and QWERTY keyboard.
They are missing the most important feature. This needs to work by VPN from off your network. How else can you mess with the cat when you are in a different city?
I'm not at home and can't test it out, but it seems like from a lot of these comments, people are saying that the iPad version does not have gesture controls or the QWERTY keyboard.
Is this true? If so, as pretty as it may look, I'll hold off on the update.
Is this true? If so, as pretty as it may look, I'll hold off on the update.
What are you talking about? Unless the new Remote app has removed the features, you can in fact use the app to control the Apple TV including navigating menus and searching YouTube via the pop up on screen QWERTY keyboard. You can also navigate to see your photos or search for movies to rent etc.