I have a 1st gen AppleTV (and 4 other gen 3's) that has been working great for years. As I'm sure you've heard, Apple has dropped the ability to sync the original AppleTV since the iTunes 12/7 update. So, instead of having a brick, I loaded OpenElec and Kodi from here: http://chewitt.openelec.tv/appletv/ Rolling back to a previous version is not possible since I upgraded my mac to High Sierra and iTunes 12.7.
The install went great and have been getting used to the customization's. My challenge is the media tagging. In iTunes, all of the media information is stored in the video file. Kodi wants to redownload the metadata. I like how my movies/TV Shows are organized/named now (one big movie folder and one big TV Shows folder with subfolders for each show (not season). I only use this appletv to transport my collection while traveling.
There seems to a lot of plugins/addons to stream media and to find tag information online, but I can't seem to find one that will read the existing tag information off the media file and either create nfo files for Kodi or to load the information directly into the Kodi database. Does this exist? Is there somewhere I can add this request? With Apple no longer supporting the original AppleTV, I can't be the only person in this boat, but everything points to using a different media manager (I used MetaZ now). I just want to use the tags that I've already created.
Thanks in advance.
Brian
The install went great and have been getting used to the customization's. My challenge is the media tagging. In iTunes, all of the media information is stored in the video file. Kodi wants to redownload the metadata. I like how my movies/TV Shows are organized/named now (one big movie folder and one big TV Shows folder with subfolders for each show (not season). I only use this appletv to transport my collection while traveling.
There seems to a lot of plugins/addons to stream media and to find tag information online, but I can't seem to find one that will read the existing tag information off the media file and either create nfo files for Kodi or to load the information directly into the Kodi database. Does this exist? Is there somewhere I can add this request? With Apple no longer supporting the original AppleTV, I can't be the only person in this boat, but everything points to using a different media manager (I used MetaZ now). I just want to use the tags that I've already created.
Thanks in advance.
Brian