Screen Saver on Apple TV

I have an IMac 2012 OS X 10.9.5 and a 3rd gen Apple TV with the latest firmware. I have an ITunes library of over 20,000 entires. I collect album art
from the web as the majority of my music is captured from vinyl.
I use the ITune Match screen saver for the TV (and the IMac) but the Apple TV doesn't seem to recognize all of the album art I've collected
in my ITunes for the TV. It seems to use the same ones and even shows the same ones at the same time. I will often see as many as 4 of the same albums
appearing at a time on the display. I have it set to use the ITune Match results. I've tried using the al
What is the difference between the ITunes screen saver on my IMac vs the Apple TV.
Is there some way that I can get it to recognize all of the album art that my IMac does?

No problem.
It's hard to know what the actual process is in regards to how it chooses what to cache.
If you do find you want to provide feedback to Apple then I would suggest using the form to do so.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Share your photos in iPhoto with the Apple TV using the Advanced menu in iTunes, then select the album of your choice to use as a screensaver in the screensaver settings on the Apple TV.

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I really enjoy iTune Radio and would like to listen to it at night, but the screen is either the song info or the screen saver. There is not an option in the screen saver for 'blank'. Is there a way to make the screen blank on the TV while listneing to music or iTunes Radio?
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Kinda late to the party here. To expand on what Winston said:
Create a new photo stream (on your iPhone, for example), and add a black picture to the stream. Then, add your account in the screensaver section on the Apple TV, and select your new stream.
I have 1 photo that's set to dissolve, and it works beautifully! Now I can work without distractions :-)

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I found a fix. In the ~library/preferences/byhost directory. My directory had a broken link. I deleted it. Rebooted. The folder came back with various files and I was able to change my screensaver! Good luck.

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I like sharing my photos as a screen saver on Apple TV Generation 2. but I do NOT want album cover artwork.
to be mixed in with photos.
Is this possible?

I understand, under Advanced, I can choose Albums to share. Then I check Share Photos From: iPhoto.
Then Select Blbums and Events.
I only have one album selected with 127 photos that I took that I would like to use as a screen saver.
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My screen saver is showing internet radio instead of pictures after the update. How do i turn it off? I have went thru every menu and have all the settings the way they have been Prior to the latest update. now the screen saver is always Internet radio instead of the normal screen saver. Apple please Fix this annoyance....

If you are confident you have the screen saver set properly, try restarting the device.

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I am using screen saver on Apple TV with files of photos from my MacBook Air. I have noticed that the screen saver will only show a fraction of the photos. It cycles through maybe 50 photos when the folders have hundreds or thousands of photos. It also continually cycles throught the same photos. I have tried resetting it and changing the folders on my mac. Nothing helps. Any suggestions?

I had THOUGHT I mentioned Photoshop's file browser, but re-reading I see I only mentioned the version that started having it available....sorry about that, glad you figured it out anyway.
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The remote still works. I just discovered this, to my great delight!
Don't touch the computer though -- if you have your screen saver set to require a password to unlock, touching anything brings up the password dialog. When that's up, the remote doesn't work. Not unreasonable, just something to be aware of.

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I have an ATV2, mid 2010 iMac dual core i3, Airport Extreme 3rd generation router.
After Wednesday's update to Apple TV to implement the new user interface, I get distorted playback when initiating music playback from iTunes on the iMac as soon as the screen saver starts. It sounds like the old vinyl records when the needle skips. It isn't, oddly enough, timed with the screen changes. It occurs at ever increasing frequency, from 24 to 19 to 16 seconds.
If however, you access the iMac through the Apple TV interface, the screen saver start up does not create any interference. It doesn't matter whether the music is started using the Apple remote control or the iPhone 4S interface. Both work fine.
So it's a one way situation. When you start playing music from iTunes on the iMac, interference and distortion start with the screen saver, but if you start playing music from the Apple TV, there is no distortion or interference from the screen saver.
Any one else have this problem and a solution?

Based on an Apple Care suggestion, the solution to this problem is to reset the Apple TV completely. This is under Settings- General- Reset-Restore.
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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.
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Hello, Juniorjr2.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
This sounds like screen curtain may be enabled. Screen curtain is a feature that allows display privacy. To disable screen curtain while VoiceOver is enabled, you can three finger triple tap the screen to disable this feature. You may need to press the home button once in order to process these steps. If you wish to disable VoiceOver, see the link in the article below.
iOS: Configuring accessibility features
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5018
If the issue persists, try reaching out to us here.
Cheers,
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I have a photo album in my apple tv but can't get the apple tv to use it as a screen saver. it is using older photos

I have a photo album in my apple tv but can't get the apple tv to use it as a screen saver. it is using older photos

Is this a software or hardware issue?

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