Location of ATV Local Media?

[ckgoodwin]

Hey All,

Long time ATV user, total Boxee noob here. I have successfully patched my 160GB ATV v 2.2 and Boxee runs fine, but it's not seeing any of the local music/video content that's been synced to the ATV via iTunes (98% DRM Free).

I see the default local sources set for /Users/frontrow/music etc. but no music or videos show up in the UI.

SSH to the ATV and I don't see any files listed in /Users/frontrow/music, /Users/frontrow/movies either (are those the right paths?)

I am probably missing something obvious here, but danged if I can tell what - so any suggestions much appreciated.

- Chris

[ckgoodwin]

Ok, so I located the music storage on the ATV at "mnt/media/media files". But this directory is full of iTunes style folders named f001 etc. I can play the mp3s in each of these folders and Boxee displays the artist and song title etc fine. I then went ahead and added "mnt/media/media files" as a local source and now Boxee displays 4 random albums from my collection which I can play but that's it.

I must be missing something here on how to get Boxee to recognize the music stored on the ATV. Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

- Chris

[steveo]

...mounting "Media Library" instead. I would try it right now but my damn gf is watching her crap right now. Sigh

[ckgoodwin]

What is the full path to Media Library?

- Chris

[steveo]

/mnt/Media/Media Library/

Tho this isn't a directory it may still be mountable. Still haven't been able to try!! I need another TV!!

[steveo]

Ya it's not recognized as being a mount point. hmmm

[marcel]

hi ckgoodwin
boxee usually starts to index in the background.. it might still be indexing and you have a large amount of contents ..you can try manually recognizing the media files (not the most efficient way) ...

Please send me your debug logs...

[iBog]

Will Boxee index videos synced with iTunes?

[ckgoodwin]

Marcel, Thanks for the reply. I have had Boxee on and off quite a bit since my initial install what with the 2.2 update and my frequent fiddling and have probably not left it running uninterrupted for very long.

I don't have a huge media library - ~6500 songs (about 30 GBs) plus 20Gbs photos (sync'ed to the ATV) and about 120GBs of DVD rips on an external SMB share that are mostly streamed.

I can certainly let it run overnight or longer - I will give that a try I guess, but how should my local media sources be configured when I start that process. I initially got zero content when I started with the default location of /Users/frontrow/... I am currently getting some content displayed using mnt/media/media files/... but can remove that if it's better to stick with the defaults - so please advise.

Also happy to send on debug logs - need some guidance on how to do that.

Thanks...

- Chris

[marcel]

hi ckgoodwin

use this path mnt/media/media files/ and leave it a while to index...if it still not displaying then i will help you the debug logs..

cheers