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Apple Adds Genius Playlists to Remote App

Tuesday September 16, 2008 1:30 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Apple has updated their Remote application for the iPhone and iPod Touch to version 1.1 [App Store]. The free application adds remote control capabilities for both iTunes and your Apple TV through your local Wi-Fi network connection. For the Apple TV, it acts primarily as a media browser, allowing you to search, browse and playback both music and video.

Existing features includedl:

- Control the music on iTunes or Apple TV
- See the album artwork on your Remote
- Search your whole iTunes library
- Control your AirTunes speakers

The 1.1 update adds:

- Create Genius playlists
- Create and edit playlists in iTunes
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pfish
Posted: 45 months ago
Still getting the "All Apps Are Up To Date" message. This was a "bug" in 2.0.x where App Updates were available in iTunes but could not see them on the iPhone.
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websyndicate
Posted: 45 months ago
OMG I just peed my pants a little bit.
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Ding.Dong
Posted: 45 months ago
The one feature I'd like to see added to Remote is the ability to see lyrics like you can in the iPod app.
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Maxamillious
Posted: 45 months ago
^ How do you view lyrics in the iPod App? I've had an iPod Touch forever and never knew you could do that...
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donlphi
Posted: 45 months ago
If you noticed on the bottom of iTunes, you have the option of playing music on your AppleTV (or Airport express). Unfortunately when you hit play on a video, it doesn't stream to you ATV, instead it plays on the computer.

They need to add control of video playback from my computer to my AppleTV. This would allow me to ditch my IR repeater needed to access my hidden ATV and cut down on remote controls. It would also allow me to access all videos at one time since they do not fit on AppleTV. oh the petty frustration. :(
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mfermier
Posted: 45 months ago

^ How do you view lyrics in the iPod App? I've had an iPod Touch forever and never knew you could do that...


To see the lyrics you have stored you simply tap the album art once while you are in the 'now playing' screen and under the scrubber bar and genius icon it should show the lyrics.

Although it won't fetch lyrics from the phone, they must already be there
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deannnnn
Posted: 45 months ago
Cool updates.
I don't really have much of a need for the Remote app though.
If it controlled VLC/QuickTime... well that'd be another story.
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Ding.Dong
Posted: 45 months ago

^ How do you view lyrics in the iPod App? I've had an iPod Touch forever and never knew you could do that...

You have to manually add the lyrics in iTunes. Google the song name and find a site with the lyrics for the song you want, and then copy them into the song info in iTunes. When you play the song on your Touch, tap the middle of the screen and the lyrics show up. It's a really cool feature that a lot of people probably don't know about.

Edit: mfermier beat me to it.
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macfan881
Posted: 45 months ago

OMG I just peed my pants a little bit.


you get to easily exitited don't you
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kornyboy
Posted: 45 months ago
Just downloaded this. Nice added features to a very nice App.
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