Apple tv screen saver

Is there a way to play music through Apple Tv without a screen saver showing on the TV. I would like a perfectly blank TV screen while playing music.

Will someone from Apple PLEASE respond and let us know what is causing these slow downloads? Is it that your pipe is getting hit too hard? Are you working on it? I have over $600 invested in Apple TVs, and it starting to get embarrassing to purchase movies that aren't available to watch for hours afterward. It's not my broadband connection, as all other downloads are normal, and the Apple downloads are the only ones taking so long.

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I figured out how to put photos onto the Apple TV Screen-Saver

I was having trouble using photos with the Apple TV screen saver.
I got as far as putting them into the photo stream, but some photos were crooked, with no way of editing them.
I called Apple, they didn't know what to do.
I am submitting this after calling Tech Support at Apple, wanting to give them the information...don't know if they really took it to heart. I figured this out myself with the help of my son.
I want to share it with others.
So, let me begin:
I texted my son, he had set it up once for me, but I deleted the file.
So he told me to edit the photos on my iPhone, in my photostream. Well there wasn't any to edit. The file was not there.
So going through my PC, I clicked on "My Computer"
I clicked onto "iCloud Photos"
I get what looks like the above photo. Click on "New photo stream"
You will then get this screen. In the "to" field, send it to yourself. And then name your file, click "next".
It will then give you this screen:
When all the photos load, click done.
THEN, go to your Apple TV.
Settings:
Click on "Screen Saver"
Click on "Photos"
Click on "iCloud Photos"
Click on the file you named on your PC.
Now you will find, like me on "previewing" that some pictures were not straight.
Go to your iPhone, click on your "Camera Roll"
Click on "Photo Stream"
Then you will see your file that you created for your screen saver.
Click onto your file, from there you can click on the crooked photo and click "Edit", it asks to save it to "Camera Roll". Click there.
What I did then was delete the crooked picture and at the bottom of this file within your "Photo Stream", go to the bottom of the photos, it will have a tile with a plus sign in it. Click on that to add from your "Camera Roll" the corrected picture.
Do this for every crooked photo.
ALL DONE!
When done, go to your "Camera Roll" and delete these photos.

This issue is resolved, through the generous advice of folks on this page.
See my reply to Apple (2nd gen.) photo shuffle. The Fix that I posted works for Apple 3 Gen, which was just purchased Dec. 27,2013.
Thanks to all

What are the names of the flowers on Apple TV screen saver?

what are the names of the flowers on Apple TV screen saver?
I am looking for the the botanical names...
Would anyone know where to find the credits for the photos used on the flowers screen saver?
-carol8ne

You can stream from a Mac via itunes selection (iPhoto events or a folder) - it has 8GB of solid state temporary storage, but quite how things are cached/flushed from here is a bit of a mystery - you cannot say designate 2GB to hold photos or prioritise photos over other material.
Even rentals seem to flush if you've watched them and they haven't expired - relative fell asleep during a rental yesterday so i suggested she watched it today and it downloaded from scratch again, and the AppleTV hadn't had anything but music playing in the interim. Silly this really. There's a post on another section where someone used 17GB of their data allowance to watch a HD movie as it kept reloading!
Yes you can stream photos from iPod/iPad using Airplay, but to be honest i don't think ATV2 offers that much over ATV1 for photos (yet anyway), and in some ways it's inferior.
ATV2 is far more responsive/uses less power etc but I'm not convinced you get anything groundbeaking unless you have a lot of guests who could use it via Airplay from their iphones (and with ipads currently without cameras, photos would have to come from somewhere else in the first place).
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I have been taking photos for years and have thousands. When I use Apple TV screen saver, it seems only to grab a handfull and repeats them. Is there a configuration setting that will allow me to have the screen saver grab more than just a few? Thanks.

I have been taking photos for years and have thousands. When I use Apple TV screen saver, it seems only to grab a handfull and repeats them. Is there a configuration setting that will allow me to have the screen saver grab more than just a few? Thanks.

The device has an 8GB drive for caching streamed meida, a small portion of that is used to temporarily store photos for the screensaver. It may vary depending on resolution etc but it seems to be around 100.

Annoying Airplay notice on Apple TV screen saver

How can I eliminate the Airplay notice on my Apple TV screen saver?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Settings > AirPlay > Conference Room Display > Off.

How do you choose which photos from Aperture for Apple TV screen saver?

How do you choose which photos from Aperture for Apple TV screen saver?

How do you choose which photos from Aperture for Apple TV screen saver?

How do I get my photos to present like the Apple TV screen saver presents its photos?

I would like to have my Ipad picture albums present on my Apple TV like the factory screen saver pictures that the Apple TV presents. Any ideas how to do that?

You need to go into the settings and set the screensaver to show your photos. Make sure you have shared photos via iTunes (File - home sharing - choose photos to share). iTunes needs to be up and running so it can cache the photos on ATV flash drive. FYI: It only uses a small portion (typically around 100)

Is there any way to see a Flickr group in the Apple TV screen saver

I can easily add an individual but there MUST be a way to add a group. The Flickr URL just changes from /photos/***** to /groups/****.
Any ideas?

Hi there
Try clicking Project > Rescale and scaling the project to be a smaller size.
Note that you probably want to leave the "Maintain aspect ratio" option selected (you are welcome Lilybiri )
Additionally, note that rescaling will inevitably result in a loss of fidelity. Things just begin to fuzzy up when you do that. The degree to which it suffers is in direct proportion to how much scaling you wish to do.
As a final note, you only really want to ever rescale a project once. So if you aren't sure about the final outcome, click File > Save As and rescale. Look at it. LIke it? Terrific! Keep it! Don't like it so much? Scrap it and open the original again. Then again click File > Save As...
Rinse and repeat as necessary... Rick
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I Can't Get Apple Hot News RSS Screen Saver!

I can't get Apple RSS screen saver! All I can get is the Wikipedia Recent Changes one and I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT!!!!! Please help me get the Apple screen saver back like I used to have.

I get the "Wikipedia Recent Changes (en)" screen saver instead of the Apple one.
And when I click options, this happens:
Now I would like some help with this if you can.

How can I change my screen saver on Apple TV?

I would like to change the pictures that pop up on my apple tv screen saver when I am listening to music. How can I do this?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Go to your screensaver settings and choose another source for your screensaver photos.

Apple TV displays a limited number of pictures in screen saver mode

Why does Apple TV screen saver function show only a fraction of the photos that I have selected for my screensaver? It shows about 15 of 526 photos. If I use the slide show function it shows all photos. If I switch the screen saver to another directory I have the same problem. I've seen other people complain about the issue but haven't seen a resolution.

Thank you LarryHN.
After some further research ist seems as if tumblr ist bringing back 20 results by default. It is something limited by the rss software. Therefore not an issue for iPhoto.
I contacted tumblr support.
JJ

Screen saver won't start

Just upgraded to 10.4.7 and my hot corners won't start the screen saver.
Checked the Security pref pane and all is properly checked. Then again, I changed nothing after installing the 10.4.7 update.
Now I can't start the screen saver with a hot corner. I even made two corners a hot corner.

Hi, Patrick.
1. Are you using a third-party mouse? If so, and you installed associated, vendor-provided software to configure the mouse, check for updates to such.
2. Is this one of the Apple-provided screen savers or a third-party screen saver? If non-Apple, test with an Apple-provided screen saver.
3. Does the screen saver start normally otherwise, i.e. after a period of inactivity?
4. Preferences for hot corners for Dashboard, Exposé, and Screen Saver are saved in the Dock's preferences, i.e. the file com.apple.dock.plist in your Home > Library > Preferences folder. These may be corrupted.1. Take a screen shot of your Dock. This is so you know how your Dock was set up before performing the next steps, as these will reset the Dock to its default configuraiton.
2. Trash the Dock preferences: com.apple.dock.plist in your Home > Library > Preferences folder.
3. Do one of the following:
• Log out, then either log back in.
• Restart your Mac, then log back in to your account.
• Quit and relaunch the Dock:a. Launch Activity Monitor.
b. Sort the list of processes in ascending order by name by clicking on the Process Name column heading.
c. Select the Dock process in the Process List.
d. Click Quit Process in the Activity Monitor toolbar.
e. Confirm your intent to quit the Dock process.
The Dock process relaunches automatically with the Dock in its default configuration.4. Reconfigure your Dock as it was using the screen shot from step 1.
5. Use System Preferences > Dock to reset your Dock preferences for Minimize, Magnification, etc.Note: If you are running any Dock "hacks" or "add ons" you might want to disable or delete these as these can contribute to Dock-related problems, such as issues with Hot Corners.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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Screen Saver - Changing 1st Photo Shown

Apple's screen saver is very good, BUT!!! is there any way the 1st photo that appears is different each time my screen saver kicks in.
Currently, I get the same photo everytime the screen saver starts.
Sort of annoying (very annoying).
Is there anyway to make this NOT happen? Or....
...is there some software/app that helps make my screen saver be more more "random" and NOT the same all the time.
Thx Much to anyone who can help.

We have the same issue on my wife's Lion MPB. Really weird because I have a near-identical machine and it doesn't exhibit the same behavior. We both have the screensaver options configured the same, and we're both pointing to a folder of pictures, not an iPhoto library or album.
Tried deleting all her screensaver-related .plist files from ~/Library/Preferences but the issue returned as soon as I reset the screensaver and options.
Crazy, right?

Bug: Gray Gamma 2.2 Images Appear Incorrectly in Screen Saver

I recently noticed that some images in my Apple TV screen saver were appearing distorted -- incorrectly cropped, shimmery, with vertical lines through them. I spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out what the images had in common when I realized they were all black-and-white. I did a Get Info on the images and they ALL used the Color Profile "Gray Gamma 2.2". Opening the images in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, converting their color profile to sRGB (Image > Convert Color Profile > select sRGB option), and then saving them back out eliminated the problem once I forced the Apple TV to refresh its cache of images.
Hopefully Apple will realize this problem exists and do something about it -- I am posting it here for the benefit of anyone else who may run into this problem and can't figure out how to solve it.

"I recently noticed that some images in my Apple TV screen saver were appearing distorted -- incorrectly cropped, shimmery, with vertical lines through them. I spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out what the images had in common when I realized they were all black-and-white. I did a Get Info on the images and they ALL used the Color Profile "Gray Gamma 2.2"."
I am having the same problem with certain B&W images - most of these images are fairly old, i.e., 1950s on back. The only info I can find regarding color is this - Get Info tells me the color space is gray.
Now, I can go back to the original photo source and re-download the photo and it displays just fine in Apple TV, whether slideshow or screen saver. But, it's a lot of work to go back and do that. Several hundred images worth of work.

Controlling the photos I see on screen saver

How can I control the photos I see on my Apple TV screen saver when I stream from my iCloud account

A small portion of the flash drive is used to temporarily cache photos for screensaver, it will vary slightly but it's typically around 100. If you want to have control then it would be best to create a shared photo stream (via iCloud) or album (via computer) to be used specifically for this purpose.

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