![]() It’s a decent, if simplistic remote, and rather limited in its ability to do complex interactions - especially those requiring keyboard input.įor many months, the folks at Boxee have mentioned they were working on an application to turn the iPhone into a remote for using with Boxee (not unlike Apple’s own Remote app for use with the AppleTV). Up until now, if you used Boxee with a remote, it was the simple little white Apple remote that comes with most Mac desktops and the AppleTV. And the recent upgrade of the Mac Mini is probably going to see quite a few people moving their beloved older Mini’s from a kid’s bedroom desk to beside the big-screen TV in the living room. These days, old computers aren’t tossed into the recycling heap they’re turned into home media centers using Boxee (probably the Linux version, that’s likely to run on somewhat older hardware, though there’s a nice Windows version out in restricted beta, too). gavbon86: RT Oh, and today is birthday as well.Boxee is the scrappy little home media software that continues to win the hearts and minds of geeks all over.gavbon86: My good friend is doing a live PC build with Ryzen 7000, I believe.gavbon86: MSI has issued another statement on its updated AGESA firmware (AM5), addressing the Ryzen 7000/7000X3D issues.But the most likely explanation has to be mark… RyanSmithAT: We'll never know for sure.RyanSmithAT: I fear PC is now the third wheel for multiplatform games.gavbon86: The king wants the public to swear allegiance to the him at his coronation?.Almost every article I've penned at AnandTech (and every noob I've fraged)… RyanSmithAT: This one I'm taking kind of personally.One of the greatest things about the IntelliMouse Optical was that buttons… ![]() RyanSmithAT: I'm right there with you.gavbon86: You also forgot one important point it's annoying AF.You can like/dislike songs, skip forward and even create new stations. You give it your login information and you get full access to all of your stations. The Pandora app itself is just like what you get by visiting the webpage. As soon as you start playing any content that has audio however Pandora pauses automatically. Selecting the Pandora widget brings up more playback controls and a visualization. The Boxee menu gains a play/pause button and tell you the name of the track you’re currently listening to. The Pandora app keeps running (and playing music) even after you back out of the app. Turn off adult mode in the settings menu and you’ll even get some porn apps, just in case you wanted a quick way to get your favorite internet porn onto your TV.īoxee does support background operation of apps. I was actually surprised by how big the Boxee app ecosystem already was. There’s tons of really good free video content online and Boxee apps are a great way to get access to it. The apps hub is also how you get get direct access to the Boxee Browser. You can favorite apps as well so you don’t have to scroll through the list of 100+ Boxee apps to find what you’re looking for. There’s YouTube Leanback, revision3, TED, Flickr, Wired, cnet TV, Fail Blog, and Reddit TV among others. A surprising number of companies/websites have Boxee apps. For the most part these aren’t apps like you’d find on your smartphone, but rather collections of video content from the web. Like almost everything these days, the Boxee Box supports apps. The integrated SD/MMC card reader is a great way to display photos on your TV. The zoom function desperately needs some sort of multitouch interface, while rotate is pretty quick. You zoom and rotate photos using onscreen controls. The play/pause button on the remote comes in handy. Some thumbnails appear quickly while others can take a very long time to show up.īy default there’s a ridiculous amount of Ken Burns effect applied to any slideshow (you can disable it in the settings menu), and viewing photos in any directory becomes a slideshow by default. a share for pictures, a share for music, a share for movies, etc.).Īlthough RAW files appear in the file browser, I couldn’t get the Boxee Box to load any. Despite Boxee’s intelligence, it does help to create individual shares based on the type of content you have (e.g. The photos browser includes all folders with any photos in them, so you need to be careful to keep your photos segregated from things like apps. You can just view your music collection by album or by artist. There’s no quick way to search for songs and no playlist support from what I can tell. The Box does a great job finding music and displaying album art, but that’s pretty much the extent of what Boxee can do with your MP3s. Boxee’s Files hub also enables music and photo streaming from networked and attached storage.
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