Video app, want to run all videos
I would like to run the videos similar to music in a playlist. Why must I run each video individually?
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"Solution found for the iPad!
Create a playlist for which the first song is an mp3, not a video. Make the rest videos.
Start the playlist in iPod, and press the home screen - for some reason this won't work if the song is a video first. However you can scrub forward before you press the home screen if you like.
WAIT FOR THE FIRST VIDEO TO START PLAYING. Then press the video app on the home screen, and it will start the videos playing. You can't forward to the next song, but you can scrub forward. Not that that is much use to you. However at least you can watch your video playlist at the gym right! "
This works great! Only issue is that I found that I have to sync the playlist in both the "Movie" tab AND the "Music" tab to be able to get a combined play list. I name the song "AAA" so it pops to the top of the playlist (happens to be the theme song from the old TV show "The A-Team"!).
Funny thing - the guys atthe Apple store know nothing about this issue and have noted the 'work-around' for thier customers! I make sure to point 'em here as many say they don't visit this site.
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Any advice or pointers in the right direction/to appropriate resources would be greatly appreciated.
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end runOk, let me try to do a better job explaining.
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Again, my concern here is why the program runs fine once it has already been opened in automator (say second or third time running it there) but when run from finder, or first opened in automator, it calls all the dance apps at once. Then they give error messages because the speech section is first, and this can't be done simultaneously:
Also, not sure if this is relevant, but I have a spinning gear in the corner of my mac that I believe is automator launcher, and it's showing all the apps as running even after I've ok'd their error messages and they have disappeared from the dock. I can exit waltz and danceApp, which are the two actually running, but the others won't stop until I've ended automator launcher in activity monitor.
Hopefully this is more helpful. Thanks again. -
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