Use a Lightroom Album/Catalog as Screen Saver on a Mac

Hello I am a long time Aperture User and after seeing the new Apple Photos App I am considering to move to LR. I have run a test version and basically LR is giving me all I need, except I could not find one feature that I like in Aperture. In order not to put my photos in a box and forget them I have created Smart Albums with the 5 Star rated photos and I am running them as Screensaver on my TV connected to a Mac Mini. On the Mac Mini I can choose this Aperture album as screensaver directly from the Settings Menu. Can I do something similar with a LR Catalog on a Mac? Thanks for your help

Considering LR is also a Windows program, I wouldn’t expect it to integrate with Mac-only features like Aperture might; however, it seems to me that you could set up a publishing service to a disk folder and have that folder be the source of a slideshow screensaver if one exists on a Mac.

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