Emby for Apple TV - Now Ready for tvOS 13
A new update for our Apple TV app has just been released which makes the app compatible with both tvOS 12.4 and 13. As a bonus, you also get all of the following :
Brand New Home Screen
We've entirely re-written home screen. This gives you top level access to your Favorites, and an improved search.
In addition this new home screen includes the following improvements:
- High quality images on Apple TV 4K
- Better refreshing when content changes
- Faster loading compared to the old screen
- My Media "small" support
- Live TV shortcuts
- Now Playing menu option when music is playing
Brand New TV Library
We've entirely re-written the TV media type library. To summarize this includes all the features similar to the Movies library including:
- High quality images on Apple TV 4K
- Added episodes tab
- Improved sorting, filtering, shuffle and play all support
- Default screen from your settings is now respected by the Apple TV app
- Faster loading
- Generally aligned features and UI with other Emby apps
Brand New Music Library
We've entirely re-written the music library. To summarize this includes all the features similar to the Movies and TV libraries including:
- High quality images on Apple TV 4K
- Improved sorting, filtering, shuffle and play all support
- Faster loading
- Improved playlist rendering w/ album icons for mixed content within a play list
- Generally aligned features and UI with other Emby apps including instant mix support
Miscellaneous improvements and changes
- Default Movie screen from your settings is now respected by the Apple TV app
- Shuffle support is available in the movies library
- Playlists now support video content
- When displaying start/end-time on the scrub bar it now respect your device settings
- Updated MPV and FFMPeg to 4.1.3
- Bitrate options now include additional options for those on Apple TV 4K devices
- Group items into collections support added to Movies and TV libraries
- Increase number of in progress items to 4 on the Top Shelf
- Improved searching when using voice to text
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused the app to hang on start up
- Fixed a number of bugs that would cause the app to crash when entering the background during video playback
- Fixed a bug on collection views (e.g. Movies) where scroll position would be lost after playback
- Fixed a bug where movies and shows on the Genres view were not sorting properly
- Fixed a number of miscellaneous bugs that were introduced in tvOS 12.4 and 13
- Fixed a bug that prevented play/pause on a universal remote from being recognized when the Siri remote was disconnected
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Record Settings button to appear twice
- Fixed a bug where movie suggestions were not respecting their parent library
- Fixed a bug that prevented unwatched episode counts from displaying
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