ATV3 TV Theme music and backgrounds

Hello all, I searched the forums and internet for an answer but no luck so I thought I would post.

 

I got plex back up and running on my ATV3 but have a question.

 

When I use my IPAD plex app it displays background art and TV theme songs when I go into a TV folder like Babylon 5. When I go into the same TV folder in the Plex app, formerly the trailers app, on my ATV 3 I do not see any background art or hear any theme music. The cover art works though.

 

My folder structure looks like:

 

//servername/recorded TV/babylon 5/Season 1/(shows)

                                  

I have put Art.jpg and Banner.jpg in both the Babylon 5 root folder and the Season 1 folder just to see what would happen but it doesnt seem to do anything.

 

Am I correct in assuming that the ATV exploint just won't allow for background theme music or background art work/nbanners?

 

Thanks in advance.

You are correct, background art and theme music are not supported on the ATV.

Thank you sir. You are indeed a Rock Star!

it is awesome though.. Baa should put that on the roadmap.. its the only thing am missing in PlexConnect :D

Just thinking outside the box as usual. Since there is no way to get theme music using plexconnect due to limitations with the Apple TV I thought of a way to get them music using airplay. You would need to initiate the stream when you enter a tv show, kill the stream when starting to play the show or when exiting the selected tv show xml to go back to the tv show list. There is a number of apps maybe could be utilized to get the desired effect. Now all are listed for OSX and some may only do a video/audio combination. Maybe a new app would need to be designed but just maybe this could be implemented to work? It would be really cool to get a fade in or out if desired as well :smiley:

http://ericasadun.com/ftp/AirPlay/
http://www.airsquirrels.com/airparrot/
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil
http://www.getporthole.com

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