Use album art as a screen saver in Apple TV
If, like me, you have way too much music in iTunes to sync over to your Apple TV, but would like to use album art as a screen saver, just do the following: Create a playlist in iTunes (I call mine Artwork). Then drag one song from each artist you want displayed over from your library. Try and choose the shortest song, since you probably won't be listening to this playlist. This might take some time, but when you're done, just sync that playlist alone over to your Apple TV. Grab your remote and choose Albums in your screensaver settings, and voila! all of that beautiful artwork will cascade down your TV screen as your new screen saver.
published on Tuesday, the 10. April 2007, macosxhints
Display more rows in the iTunes Artwork screen saver
I don't know if it is already known, but if you want the iTunes Artwork screen saver to show more lines of album covers to match your screen size, edit the following file with the Property List Editor: $HOME Library Preferences ByHost com.apple.screensaver.iTunesArtwork.111x2222xy33.plist Note that the 111x2222xy33 bit will be different on your machine. Change the Rows key as you wish. [robg adds: You can use the Options button in the screen saver itself to set the rows up to eight. If you edit this file, though, you can use a higher value, and the screen saver will respect that setting. I tested with 16 on my machine, and it worked -- it took a long time to cache the covers, and they were quite small, but it did work. Note that this file is in binary, so if you don't have Property List Editor, you'll have to convert it to edit it with a text editor. plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.screen......
published on Monday, the 2. October 2006, macosxhints