Long time before the application Apple TV exist and the Apple TV+ was released, users could only rent or buy movies from the iTunes Store. More precisely, since 2006, with version 7 of iTunes, it is possible to acquire cinematographic works, which remain in your library.
With the popularization of streaming services — and the decline of rental companies —, the habit of buying movies has become much less frequent. Still, many people still have purchases in their libraries, and some of them have thousands of productions.
One of these people is Sigmund Judgeeditor-in-chief of the website Screen Times. He has a staggering 3,200 movies in his library and is experiencing a delay of over 30 seconds for the list to load on his Apple TV. tvOS. O AppleInsider it showed that other people are also experiencing this problem.
16 years later, after building massive collections, Apple TV’s most loyal consumers have a problem. Library tab is crashing with Apple TV hardware.
When loading the same library in iTunes Movies or iTunes TV Shows, the time is quite less. What makes it even stranger is that when loading the library in the Apple TV app on other devices, such as on rival devices like the Roku Stick or Amazon Fire TV, the delay is also not faced.
For comparison, he even tested it with the third-generation Apple TV, which doesn’t even run tvOS. In it, he also noticed a long delay, and found that the software may be programmed to load the entire library at once. Also, when closing and opening the TV app, the library is loaded again from scratch, which makes no sense and could actually be the root of the problem.
Despite several differences from its tvOS younger sibling, the TV app on Apple devices seems to load the entire user library at once, which could be the root of the problem.
With the decrease in the use of the resource, as well as the more frequent use, for example, of the search to find movies, it is possible that the tvOS development team itself — which, incidentally, has been quite forgotten — has not paid attention to the problem existing in the system.
Anyway, let’s hope there’s a fix soon.
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