[gifton]

Hi I have been an XBMC user on XBox for many years, but with the growth of my music library I found that the XBox was very slow in library mode so I got an Apple TV and put XBMC on it using a patchstick. All works great but I have a couple of questions:

1. I use a drive through an SMB share for my library alll artists and Albums have Thumbnails as folder.jpg and when in file mode, show up fine but when I scan the source to the library, a lot are missing and I dn't know why. Can anyone throw some light on it?

2. I hate the remote. I notice a setting for either Harmony or other Universal remotes. How does this work and which is best

3. I used to communicate with the XBox via FTP how can I get at the files on the ATV

4. In the music settings selecting queue songs on selection stops the play next song automatically. Is this normal?


I m running the latest Apple firmware, XBMC and launcher

I would realy appreciate some advice TIA


Gifton

[sezb51]

3. I used to communicate with the XBox via FTP how can I get at the files on the ATV

SFTP enabled by default but it is slow.
Better perfomance with ftp (present but not active).

Instructions to enable ftp at:
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Enable_FTP_Server

Alternatively these the main steps:

[1]
sudo -s

[2]

copy&paste the following

Code:

cat <<EOT > /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "[url]http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd[/url]">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.apple.ftpd</string>
        <key>Program</key>
        <string>/usr/bin/ftpd</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>ftpd</string>
                <string>-l</string>
        </array>
        <key>Sockets</key>
        <dict>
                <key>Listeners</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>Bonjour</key>
                        <true/>
                        <key>SockServiceName</key>
                        <string>ftp</string>
                </dict>
        </dict>
        <key>inetdCompatibility</key>
        <dict>
                <key>Wait</key>
                <false/>
        </dict>
</dict>
</plist>
EOT

[3]

launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

[4]

if using windows as ftp client you may want to consider to disable the tcp autotuning:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled