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Apple TV App User Guide

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The Library pane in the Apple TV app includes your purchases and rentals, organized by category, playlists you’ve created, and home movies you’ve manually added to your library.

Browse your library in the Apple TV app

1. In the Apple TV app on your Mac, click Library at the top of the window.

2. Scroll to browse items, or click a category or genre in the sidebar to filter items.

Play an item

• Move the pointer over the item, then click the Play button that appears.

Download a movie or TV show

• Move the pointer over an item, then click the download button that appears.

  To monitor the progress of the download, click the Activity icon that appears in the menu bar, or choose Window > Activity.

See more options

1. Move the pointer over an item.

2. Click the More button that appears, then choose an option:

   • Download: Downloads the item to your computer. This option does not appear for home movies.

   • Mark as Watched or Mark as Unwatched: Recategorizes the item.

   • Add to Playlist: Opens a submenu with options for adding the item to a new playlist or to an existing one.

   • Get Info: Opens a window with metadata associated with the item. If the item is a home movie, you can edit its metadata.

   • Copy: Copies the title, runtime, director, genre, and other information about the item.

   • Delete From Library: Removes the item from your library.

Mac Library Folder

Create a playlist

Note: Adding an item to a playlist will download it to your computer.

1. In the Apple TV app on your Mac, choose File > New > Playlist.

2. Type a name for the playlist.

   Your new, empty playlist appears in the sidebar, in the Playlists section.

3. To add items to the playlist, click Library, then do any of the following:

   • Drag an item from your library to the playlist in the sidebar.

   • Move the pointer over an item in your library, click the More button that appears, then choose Add to Playlist and choose the playlist.

   • Control-click an item in your library, choose Add to Playlist, then choose a playlist.

   • If your Mac has a Touch Bar, select an item in your library, then tap Add To Playlist in the Touch Bar.

Edit a playlist

In the Apple TV app on your Mac, click Library, then select the playlist in the sidebar and do any of the following:

• Change the playback order of items: Drag the items into the order you want.

• Remove an item: Select the item, then confirm your deletion in the dialog.

  Removing an item from a playlist does not remove it from your library or storage device.

Import home movies to your library

You can import movie files so that you can watch them in the Apple TV app.

1. In the Apple TV app on your Mac, choose File > Import.

2. Locate a movie file on your Mac, then click Open.

   Imported movies appear in the Home Movies category in the sidebar of your library.

Watch home movies

Mac Library Application Support

1. In the Apple TV app on your Mac, click Library, then click Home Movies in the sidebar.

2. Move the pointer over the item, then click the Play button that appears.

Sep 24, 2018 — Managing a huge gallery and organizing photos is a tricky business, even if you’re generally tidy, so it’s always a good idea to use some help. Especially when there’s software out there designed specifically to deal with an overload of pictures.

The only trouble with professional photo organizing software is that, much like any photo equipment, it’s painfully expensive. In this article we’ll suggest tools that tame your giant photo gallery without leaving a hole in your pocket.

Best photo organizing software for Mac, as of 2018

Gemini 2: The duplicate photo finder

The first thing you need to do to organize photos is remove the extras. There’s a high chance you’ve got plenty of duplicates and similar images — 15 shots from slightly different angles, for instance. You usually only use one of those, so there’s really no point in keeping them all.

The easiest way to get rid of those files is to get a duplicate photo finder, such as Gemini 2. It can scan your whole gallery, locate duplicates and point out similars. It usually takes a few minutes to clean your whole photo collection, so download Gemini and give it a quick test drive.

Photos: Mac’s native photo organizer app

Mac Movie Library Apps

Here’s the biggest secret to good photo organization: master Photos. You might be thinking: seriously, a native Apple app is any good? And you’d be surprised how much it is.

Since macOS Sierra, Photos has been getting makeovers and new features. In macOS Mojave, the app lets you organize content just by dragging-and-dropping it, and with Smart Albums, you can instantly group photos by date, camera, and even the person in them. At this point, it’s just a really good piece of photo management software.

Mylio: A free photo manager app

If you’ve been meaning to consolidate your photos in one place for years, Mylio will help you do just that. When you first start using the app, it offers to look for your photos on the current device, on an external drive, and even on your Facebook.

Once all the photos you’ve taken in your lifetime are imported, Mylio organizes into a variety of views. The coolest one is Calendar, showing you photo collections on an actual calendar. That way, you’ll quickly find the photos from your son’s first birthday, even if you forgot how you named the folder. Plus, Mylio offers a free mobile app, so you can access your photo library wherever you are.

Final word on photo management on Mac

There are basically two things you need to remember to bring order into your photographing life:

Free Mac Apps

1. Before you get to organization and management, be sure to unclutter your photo library. The easiest way to do it is with a duplicate finder, such as Gemini 2. Otherwise you'll be rummaging around in thousands of photos you don't even need.
2. Photos, the native Apple photo manager can accomplish everything you need to make organizing photos into groups and categories easy.
3. Third-party tools can provide you with added functionality that’s missing in native macOS tools, like calendar view or managing photos right in the Finder.

Hidden Library Mac

Now that you know all the secrets to photo organization, Mac photography shouldn’t be that hard or that expensive. Not when you’ve got the right tricks up your sleeve.

See Library On Mac

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