The app works well on my MacBook as well. But as long as we're talking about collections, and especially on a screen bigger than a phone, I would suggest that we should be able to manage a collection in bulk when viewing a collection. I may want to remove 5 movies from my Collection and add 10 new movies to it. But it's pretty cumbersome to do that today.
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Announcement: Kaleidescape Mobile App for iOS, v2.0
- Thread starter MikeKobb
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I'd also like to be able to create a new collection in the app.
Great suggestion.
And yes, "New" is the same as the New collection on the OSD -- it shows your movies from newest download to oldest. You can tap the title or the View All tile at the end of the row to see the entire collection.
Further improvements to collection management are planned as well.
@MikeKobb : Thank you for the app update!
After quickly using the app, I have one recommendation.
It would be to combine the App Search tab with Store and My System libraries for one universal search.
So a search would show the Movie details with the “Manage Downloads” and if downloaded “View in My System” that would then jump to the movie details in selected system.
After quickly using the app, I have one recommendation.
It would be to combine the App Search tab with Store and My System libraries for one universal search.
So a search would show the Movie details with the “Manage Downloads” and if downloaded “View in My System” that would then jump to the movie details in selected system.
Yes, that is in the plans as well. Unfortunately, implementing unified search requires some complex changes to the app's internals and it was too big of a project to fit into this release. But it's absolutely the direction.
In the meantime, just a tip in case you haven't found it already: on the iPhone, in any collection, actor, or director view, if you pull down a little, it will reveal a search box that searches within that view. Not as elegant as full unified search, but still useful.
In the meantime, just a tip in case you haven't found it already: on the iPhone, in any collection, actor, or director view, if you pull down a little, it will reveal a search box that searches within that view. Not as elegant as full unified search, but still useful.
@MikeKobb : There may be a bug (assuming the bug is not me) associated with the "Paused" collection in the System view. I notice that movies I have played also appear as Paused, and a movie that I never played appears as Paused as well.
Is the former issue a result of not watching enough of the credits? I would think that any movie that is automatically, or even manually, marked as played would disappear automatically from the Paused view.
Is the former issue a result of not watching enough of the credits? I would think that any movie that is automatically, or even manually, marked as played would disappear automatically from the Paused view.
A movie is marked as "played" when you pass the end credits bookmark, which is usually the point where the first credits appear at the end, but on some movies that have end-credit scenes and things, the bookmark is placed later. (This is so that lighting integrations that bring the house lights up during the credits don't interrupt those end-credit scenes.) Generally, when a movie becomes "played", any pause bookmark is removed and the movie disappears from that collection.
But a movie can also be in both Played and Paused collections if, after playing it, you went back and watched some of the movie again and stopped somewhere in the middle. At the moment, you'd have to go to the onscreen display, open the movie's details, choose More Options, and choose "Forget Paused Location".
For the movie that you say you never played, I'd bet that it was inadvertently played. Even if you only played a few seconds, that would set a pause bookmark.
In all cases, what you're seeing in the app's Paused collection should match what you're seeing on your player's Paused collection (assuming that the app is currently connected to your system and not "Browsing Offline").
It turns out that the Paused movie had started the end credits, but I guess it did not go far enough. I know this because I just resumed the movie and that's where it started. But, I had manually added it to the Played Collection earlier. So, it appears that manually adding a movie to the Played collection did not remove it from the Paused collection. This may have been a quirk because most (but not all) other movies that I manually added to Played do not appear.
I have noticed that, on many movies, the "played" bookmark does not occur at the beginning of the end credits even when there are no subsequent scenes. This is why I always check to see if the movie was automatically added to the Played collection.
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better turn off cellular data also to be sure it's working
That will probably disable the whole app. It needs some kind of data connectivity. But for purposes of trying to grab a snapshot while the player is on, just turning off Wi-Fi should be fine. This will be an annoying way to use the app, though, because the minute you go to either the My System tab or the Remote tab with Wi-Fi on at home, it will refresh the library.
ah, i follow now. sorry
Wow. Fantastic update. Finally, second screen on my phone. Plus more improvements planned. Bravo! Well done!
It works great. It looks great. So cool to view everything, collections and all, via 5G.
It works great. It looks great. So cool to view everything, collections and all, via 5G.
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Mike and Team
Awesome update!! One of the previous limitations to the app that kept me from using it much has been solved. I'm one of the legacy users with a Premiere system, with DVDs and BluRays, neither of which were incorporated into the old version but now are! Now I can browse both Premiere and Strato titles seamlessly in the App. I'm loving the new interface. It's so cool how you can see all of your individual collections displayed.
As always, so impressed with Kaleidescape and your team, and especially that you, Mike, participate on our forum as a representative from Kaleidescape. How many other companies put in this much effort to keep its customers up to date?
Thanks! Dave Little
Awesome update!! One of the previous limitations to the app that kept me from using it much has been solved. I'm one of the legacy users with a Premiere system, with DVDs and BluRays, neither of which were incorporated into the old version but now are! Now I can browse both Premiere and Strato titles seamlessly in the App. I'm loving the new interface. It's so cool how you can see all of your individual collections displayed.
As always, so impressed with Kaleidescape and your team, and especially that you, Mike, participate on our forum as a representative from Kaleidescape. How many other companies put in this much effort to keep its customers up to date?
Thanks! Dave Little
Absolutely! Premiere, Strato/Terra/Encore, and Co-Star are all supported.
Thanks Mike...I have been testing it with my setup (Strato, Alto, Co-star and vault) and its very snappy. Really well setup.
Well, technically three. We have an app called “Second Screen”, which was released back in 2010 (and has been updated since then). It runs only on the iPad. It’s not supported on iPhone.
We also have a very old app called “Disc Search”, that lets you scan the barcode on a disc package to see if you own the movie. That one is not actively maintained anymore but as far as I know, it still works.
Our current flagship app is the Kaleidescape Mobile App. It runs only iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and that’s the one that was just updated to 2.0.
We also have a very old app called “Disc Search”, that lets you scan the barcode on a disc package to see if you own the movie. That one is not actively maintained anymore but as far as I know, it still works.
Our current flagship app is the Kaleidescape Mobile App. It runs only iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and that’s the one that was just updated to 2.0.
Does Second Screen still serve a purpose with K Mobile 2.0?
If you have a Premiere system, you can use Second Screen to browse your music library and control music playback without having to look at an OSD. The 2.0 version of the Mobile App only allows for browsing the movie library.