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Apps Infuse for Apple TV Released
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It is quite confusing to have two 'different' apps, but they are thought to be the same. However.....
The 'free' version has many features blocked. You can unblock them by buying the 'pro' version in the app. But when you do so on one device and you download the 'pro' version on another, since you bought it, you'll pay again. I ended up paying 3 times without knowing it. I had set my preferences to buy without warning. So I downloaded the pro version shortly after I bought the 'in app' pro version inside the other app to compare them. And because I thought I could also use it on the iphone I just downloaded it again. I thought I already bought it so I did not had to pay....
In the end this caused so much confusion when I saw the bill (3 x €9,99), that I asked for a refund for all. Now I use MrMC. It has more options and can do more and I only paid once for it.....
I don't understand how you can possibly have bought it 3 times. You can buy the Pro app, and you can buy the in-app Pro upgrade for the free app (and both will carry over to all devices that use the same app store account). What is the third item you paid for?
Hehehe yes the way you think was the way I thought..... But apparently someone else or some 'self-thinking system' thought otherwise...... Live is full of surprises! It also took me a while to realise that they really took 2 times € 9,99 from my account for the 'pro' version and the 'in-app' version when I got the mail for another € 9,99 for my iPhone. But now I have it all back!
[doublepost=1454173545][/doublepost]Apparently I am not the only one with this problem of paying twice:
http://goo.gl/WrOmdc it's from one year ago
And from two years ago:
http://goo.gl/AiZE6Q read through the posts. Users complain they paid twice
I think it is some problem with the 'free' and 'paid' version. It seems that when you buy the pro version 'in-app' you may encounter this bug that was not sufficiently taken care of.
Or was I wrong with my assumption that you don't pay twice?
It's understandable how someone could pay twice, but buying it three times should not be possible on a single app store account.
I think many people misunderstand what the in-app purchase does. It does not give you access to the Pro app. It just activates the Pro functionality in free app. If you want to use it on another device, you need to install the free app and restore the in-app purchase inside the app.
Hahahahahaha Thank you Rigby for your enlightening inside information on how these things work! But you have to understand that I am just a low end customer with a low end set of mind.. To me it is completely impossible to follow the way that highly intelligent app developers think.
I would never have come up with the idea that they will offer two different app's that can do the same when you buy them, in or out of the app. Especially not when after buying they have the same function.
But I believe you, because this is so amusing that it must be true!
Every So often my hard drive connected to the AP Extreme just becomes unaccelable to infuse, Sometimes in the middle of a movie, And I have to manually unplug it from the router and plug it back in.... any ideas?
Hmm, we haven't seen anything like that here, but the upcoming 4.0.3 update will include a handful of streaming related improvements which may help.
Sounds more like an Apple bug to me (one of many lately!)
Similar to this? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3616812?tstart=0
Similar to this? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3616812?tstart=0
Any guesses as to when the update will be released? I'm dealing with the divx issue myself. Otherwise, everything is working great!
With any luck we're hoping to submit it to Apple this week!
Since the latest tvOS update, the app has worked 100% flawlessly for me, and that is with using it every single day. Couldn't be more pleased. Considering I was pretty unimpressed by the initial release it is a massive turnaround. My most used app by far.
The UI of Infuse is better than Kodi, although it lacks many of the features that Kodi has. Infuse 4.0.3 (due to be released soon) will restore DivX and XviD support, so it should be all you need. FWIW, Kodi is not available on the ATV 4, but a slimmed down version of Kodi is, its called MrMC. I also have MrMC, but I prefer Infuse. The UI is just too good.
I'm super impressed with Infuses ability to play DTS and Dolby Digital files from my NAS, something that my favorite Plex can't do without a PC to transcode.
My one big issue with Infuse though is that's it's VERY lacking in the metadata matching and UI features. My Plex server matched all my movies and tv shows perfectly but infuse will fail to get good posters/artwork, frequently just shows a blank folder icon and generally lacks the polish of the Plex interface and features. I suspect the metadata engine is poor.
If the above can be improved this app is a killer app for the ATV.
My one big issue with Infuse though is that's it's VERY lacking in the metadata matching and UI features. My Plex server matched all my movies and tv shows perfectly but infuse will fail to get good posters/artwork, frequently just shows a blank folder icon and generally lacks the polish of the Plex interface and features. I suspect the metadata engine is poor.
If the above can be improved this app is a killer app for the ATV.
The blank folder thing is related to the type of share being used I think - a limitation of NFS. Some way of manually choosing poster art would be great, perhaps through the already in placed 'edit' option.
It is a great separating feature for Infuse. Looking forward to HD decoding for DTS-HD MA files too. For me that would be the final piece until DTS:X and ATMOS.
You can sideload kodi on the atv4, I already use kodi on my pc and mbp and was just wondering what the $10 pricetag on infuse got you and how it compared to kodi.
I don't know about folders but you can search and select the artwork for a movie if Infuse didn't match it up. At least on the Apple TV. When I looked through the iOS version I didn't see the option but may have missed it.
One thing to keep in mind is that Infuse will treat single-video folders as playable items, though if you have extra things inside (like trailers, subfolders, etc...) Infuse will continue to treat them like normal folders.
We do have a handful of improvements in the works for future versions, but in the meantime a bit more info on how metadata works in the current version can be found here.
http://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090947-Metadata-101
Have you tried the Amber skin on MrMC? Remote functions are still a work in progress, though. I had to delete MrMC and reset up, then add favorites to see thumbnails properly.
Here too.
[doublepost=1454596344][/doublepost]Firecore, please make a an Infuse for Mac app!