Asset Stream Mac OS
Digital Asset Management gives marketers everything they need for managing your brand. A DAM system contains the brand guidelines, a media library containing all the brand's assets and a workflow module where all marketing publications can be monitored before they are published. Read more about Lytho. Stream Mac to TV - Local Files of Any Kind Once you’ve learned how to mirror display of your Mac, it won’t be difficult to start streaming local files. JustStream accepts all common video and audio formats, and it’s able to project them to a big TV screen without significant quality loss. Streaming Assets Unity combines most Assets into a Project when it builds the Project. However, it is sometimes useful to place files into the normal filesystem on the target machine to make them accessible via a pathname. An example of this is the deployment of a movie file on iOS Apple’s mobile operating system.
Get started
Make sure that your devices meet the requirements for using AirPlay. To use Siri to play and control video from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, add your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV to the Home app and assign it to a room.
Stream video from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Connect your device to the same Wi-Fi network as your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV.
- Find the video that you want to stream.
- Tap . In some third-party apps, you might need to tap a different icon first.* In the Photos app, tap , then tap .
- Choose your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV. Need help?
To stop streaming, tap in the app that you're streaming from, then tap your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from the list.
*Some video apps might not support AirPlay. If you can’t use AirPlay with a video app, check the App Store for tvOS to see if that app is available on Apple TV.
If video automatically streams to an AirPlay device
Your device might automatically stream video to the Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV that you frequently use. If you open a video app and see in the upper-left corner, then an AirPlay device is already selected.
To use AirPlay with a different device, tap, then tap another device, or tap 'iPhone' to stop streaming with AirPlay.
Stream video from your Mac
- Connect your Mac to the same Wi-Fi network as your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV.
- On your Mac, open the app or website that you want to stream video from.
- In the video playback controls, click .
- Select your Apple TV or smart TV. Need help?
To stop streaming video, click in the video playback controls, then choose Turn Off AirPlay.
Mirror your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Use Screen Mirroring to see the entire screen of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV.
- Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to the same Wi-Fi network as your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV.
- Open Control Center:
- On iPhone X or later or iPad with iPadOS 13 or later: Swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen.
- On iPhone 8 or earlier or iOS 11 or earlier: Swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen.
- Tap Screen Mirroring.
- Select your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV from the list. Need help?
- If an AirPlay passcode appears on your TV screen, enter the passcode on your iOS or iPadOS device.
Your TV uses your iOS or iPadOS device's screen orientation and aspect ratio. To fill your TV screen with the mirrored device screen, change your TV's aspect ratio or zoom settings.
To stop mirroring your iOS or iPadOS device, open Control Center, tap Screen Mirroring, then tap Stop Mirroring. Or press the Menu button on your Apple TV Remote.
Mirror or extend your Mac display
With Apple TV or an AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV, you can mirror the entire display of your Mac to your TV or use your TV as a separate display.
- Connect your Mac to the same Wi-Fi network as your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV.
- On your Mac, click in the menu bar at the top of your screen. If you don't see , go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Displays, then select 'Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available.'
- Choose your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV. Need help?
- If an AirPlay passcode appears on your TV screen, enter the passcode on your Mac.
Change settings or stop mirroring
To change the size of your desktop mirrored on your TV, click in the menu bar. Then select Mirror Built-in Display to match the size of your desktop or Mirror Apple TV to match the size of your TV.
AirPlay also lets you use your TV as a separate display for your Mac. Just click in the menu bar, then select Use As Separate Display.
To stop mirroring or using your TV as a separate display, click in the menu bar, then choose Turn AirPlay Off. Or press the Menu button on your Apple TV Remote.
Learn more about mirroring or extending the display of your Mac.
Do more with AirPlay
- Use Siri on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to play movies and TV shows, and control playback on your Apple TV or AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV.
- Use AirPlay to stream music, podcasts, and more to your Apple TV, HomePod, or other AirPlay-compatible speakers.
- Add your AirPlay 2-compatible speakers and smart TVs to the Home app.
- Learn what to do if you can't stream content or mirror your device's screen with AirPlay.
Once installed Asset will appear in LaunchPad, running Asset an icon will appear on the icon bar (top right), click this icon to configure Asset:
By default Asset catalogs your music folder, there should be nothing to configure for most people. The following manual is for those who need to customize Asset to suit.
This main page shows Asset version, its registration status and the library track / album count. The library can be rescanned, detecting changes is a fast rescan looking for changes, Rescan all re-reads each track ID tags.
Operation
Asset is accessed directly from the device (such as XBox, PS3) or through a UPnP Control Point running on a PC (such Asset Control, Kinsky Desktop) or hand-held controller (such as Kinksy, Lumin, or PlugPlayer on the iPad). Asset will appear on your UPnP control point as Asset UPnP: [Computer Name], select Asset to browse for audio tracks:
From here your audio collection can be browsed (by artist, album, etc).
Dynamic Browsing
Dynamic Browsing offers a way to customize the listing (Artist, Album, Tracks etc) results using inclusion or exclusion principles. The easiest way to describe is through example, for example you are having a party and you want Music from the 80's and 90's, but you want to exclude the Genre Classical and Genre Soundtrack, you would: Browse into Dynamic Browsing, do the included items first, so select Year >> 1980's, and Year again >> 1990's. Now the exclusions, select [Exclude] >> Genre >> Classical, and [Exclude] >> Genre >> Soundtrack, finally [List Albums] is selected (or [JukeBox Album Selection] for a random selection of albums).
It is that simple, you include and / or exclude items (when starting dynamic browsing every track is included, until an include is specified), once finished including & excluding a track listing, or album listing is requested with [List Tracks], [List Albums], [Jukebox Track Selection], or [Jukebox Album Selection]
Playlists item allows the selection of:
- Jukebox Track / Album Selection: a random selection of tracks or albums (based on rating, ie the more popular tracks appear more than less popular tracks),
- New... : newest 100 Tracks or Albums added to the library,
- Top... : Tracks, Albums or Artists with the highest play count,
- Recent.... : recently played Tracks or Albums,
- Least Played... : 100 Tracks or Albums which have been played the least.
Internet Radio
The worlds radio stations are at your finger tips with Internet radio.
Additional lists many additional ways for browsing the library, as well as:
- Folders & Filename Browsing: browse the audio tracks exactly as they appear on your computers HDD.
Configuration
Access Asset's configuration page by clicking Configure from the main screen, Asset will list all the instances. By default one instance of Asset is defined, each defined Asset can be thought as a separate server, each with their own settings or music library. It is possible for example to have a Christmas Asset indexing just festive tracks, this instance of Asset can be disabled once Christmas has passed. For a particular instance click Configure to access the settings:
Folders specifies which folder(s) Asset scans for audio, by default your Music folder is auto added. To add a network path to an external NAS, open Finder, Network >> Connect to Server, mount the share, then add /Volumes/<sharename>/music where <sharename> is changed to suit. To add an external drive: /Volumes/<drivename>/ where drivename is the external drive name.
A folder can be set to indicate it contains playlists, sub folders are not scanned, found playlists will be presented under the Playlist entry in the main browse menu.
Excluded Types informs Asset to not add certain types of audio files (for example your library consists of FLAC lossless files and mp3 files created from the FLAC files, in this instance mp3 should be excluded).
Browse Tree
Asset allows customization of the browse tree, simplify it by removing items, or add new browse-able items.
New Tree items are added with Add New.
[A to Z] can be checked for an item allowing selection of A to Z before presenting the full list.
No Track Titles prevents track listings for a given container, an example of this is 'Genre' which has this set, as the track listing is prohibited until Artist then Album are selected.
Restore Default allows the restoration of the Browse Tree to default settings.
General Settings
The Artist & Album Handling has 3 modes (examples using The Beetles):
- Smart: this mode keeps the artist text as The Beetles, yet sorts the artist under 'B'
- Value, The: places the on the end, for example Beetles, The
- Leave as is: does not adjust the displayed value or sorted position
- Display in Sort and Non-Sort Locations: In the above example Beethoven would be listed under both 'L' and 'B', this option is default as an unexpected sort tag effectively hides the artist under the last name (think of Elvis Presley shown under 'P' with a sort tag of Presely, Elvis)
- Use Sort to Order Display: item is displayed in the sort tag location only
- Ignore Sort Values: does not use sort values from ID Tags
Beyonce & Beyoncé,
KT Tunstall & K T Tunstall,
Black Eyed Peas & The Black Eyed Peas
[track #] - [title] for album tracks: is useful for control points which do not display a track number when showing an album, this option embeds the track number into a title.
[artist] - [title] for Various Artist album tracks: for compilation albums and control points which do not show the individual artists, this option adds the artist name into the title
[title] - [artist] for Title Listing: someone requests the title Breathe, you might find there are 3 Breathes in your collection (David Grey, Kylie, Prodigy), this option for Title browsing only will place the artist after the title.
Show [All Tracks] and [Shuffle Tracks]: when browsing an album listing at the top will be present [All Tracks] and [Shuffle Tracks], these can be removed.
[album] - [artist] for album listings: for control points which do not display artists when browsing albums this option places the artist onto the album name (only for browsing), useful when looking for The Greatest Hits, as there could be 10 albums.
Multi-Disc Albums show as '[Disc] [Track] [Title]' many albums are released as multi-disc-albums, such as a Greatest Hits collection. Normally one album would be listed 'Greatest Hits' and tracks from disc 1, 2, 3 are all present under the same album (3 track 1's, not good). With this option checked there each album would follow in the correct order in one album folder.
Multi-Disc Album specifies how multi disc albums are displayed, by default Disc 2, etc are combined into the one album.
Size Album Art allows the maximum art size to be set when browsing though a hand-held controller, the reduced size will give quicker responses.
UpStream Artwork enables artwork from the first discovered track to appear next to an Artist, or Genre
Contributing Artists with Main Artists typically audio tracks might include featured artists (multiple artists), normally contributing artists are searched through Advanced Search >> Contributing Artist, with this option checked these 2nd artists are added to the main Artist browse.
Menu Icons Background Color allows the black background of the main asset icons to be changed, matching your control point background.
A to Z Selection Grouping sets how artist and albums are grouped together in the quick A to Z selection which is presented after selecting Artist / Album,
Hide Main View Albums: when browsing by album it might to advantageous to not list CD singles, this option can filter those.
Dynamic Playlist Item Count determines the number of items to present in the dynamic playlists (such as newest tracks)
Detect & Catalog New Tracks enables Asset to scan new tracks as they are added to your watched library folder.
Forced Scan Interval will force a rescan looking for new tracks every X minutes
L24 (24 bit LPCM) Supported for devices which can support L24 this option enables 24 bit LPCM (there are very few if any players which currently support L24)
Tunein Username allows favorite radio stations to be added an a user account (free to create) on tunein.com, type the user name into asset to access these favorites.
Asset UPnP Identification can rename the Asset UPnP server name to something more suited to your personal requirements
Settings Override (Control Point Specific) this allows editing of the rule sets for specific control points (see Override section below)
Allowed Control Points can set which control points are allowed to access Asset.
Library Exclusions enables tracks to be excluded based on ID Tag matches, for exmaple you could exclude all tracks with the genre Christmas, from your main library and include only Christmas genres in a 2nd Christmas instance of Asset. Clicking [Edit] shows details on how to perform this.
User Rename List (Display / Tag mapping) enables the shown tree names to be replaced, or ID tags to be changed (perhaps to blend all 'Pop / Rock' genres to 'Pop). Clicking [Edit] gives details of how to perform the renaming.
Output Debug Log can be enabled to diagnose problems, it should not be left enabled as the debug logs can grow very large.
Streaming
Asset is able to decode the audio prior sending to a player, this would be useful if:
- The player does not support the audio format directly, Asset is able to allow the player to play the audio tracks by decoding them to PCM (either Wave or Linear), or mp3. Note that decoded audio files have no quality loss (unless mp3 is used), they are as the player would play them (when it decodes), if a format is left 'as is' it is sent untouched to the player.
The option 'as is single' allows for say flac to only be offered as flac, normally 'as is' would offer FLAC, LPCM, WAV, FLAC this enables a player to pick FLAC if it supports, but also automatically chose LPCM or WAVE if it does not, as is single would only offer FLAC. - Apply ReplayGain ReplayGain is a method of measuring loudness of audio tracks and altering the overall loudness, enabling tracks from different albums to have the same volume levels (modern popular albums are much louder than an album from the 1980's). ReplayGain requires that the audio tracks have an embedded ReplayGain ID Tag (dBpoweramp is able to add this tag to files, install dBpoweramp and the ReplayGain utility codec from Codec Central on dbpoweramp.com, then run the program 'Batch Converter', select the main audio folder (normally Music) and select Convert >> choose the encoder the [ReplayGain]. This method only scans the files and adds ReplayGain values, the audio is left untouched).
Only tracks which are streamed (in a format other than 'as is') would have replaygain applied. If the player supports 24 bit audio then enable this option as it allows ReplayGain adjustments without any loss of bit depth when playing 16 bit tracks, also set the Active and Inactive pre-amp to -3 dB.
Maximum option can be used to allow a player to play higher bit-depth files than it can normally support (by automatically converting 24 bit to a maximum of 16 bit), obviously though not at the higher resolution.
Settings Override (Control Point Specific)
Settings Override allows to set a set of rules mainly to do with browsing, but also audio format specific, these rules are triggered by a known control point name. This is an advanced option and should not be edited lightly.
On the right hand side of the Settings Override page is a list of known control points, the highlighted item is the last encountered. On the left hand side is a list of rules, they are in sections each starting with =, the list is searched looking for a match, partial names can be supplied, for example to set rules based for the iPad (when using PlugPlayer), you could set =iPad.
The rules themselves can be:
[ForceAlbumArt=200] to force 200 pixel album art
[StreamMax16Bit] sets the maximum bits for streaming to 16
[StreamMax2Channels] sets the maximum channels for streaming to 2
[StreamMax48KHz] sets the maximum frequency for streaming to 48KHz
[SimpleBrowse] is used to give a very simple browse tree (just tracks), this is used on control points such as XBox which only need to catalog all tracks as quickly as possible.
[NoAssetPrependTrackNum] see [track #] - [title] for album tracks
[NoAssetTrackWantFrontArtist] see [artist] - [title] for Various Artist album tracks
[NoAssetTrackWantEndArtist] see [title] - [artist] for Title Listing
[NoAssetAlbumArtist] see [album] - [artist] for album listings
[NoAssetMultiDiscTrackTitle] see Multi-Disc Albums show as '[Disc] [Track] [Title]'
[ForceToWAVE] [ForceToMP3] [ForceToLPCM] [ForceToSINGLE] these three options force the streaming (transcoding), after setting this option follow with a list of extensions, finalizing with a blank line, for example:
[ForceToLPCM]
.mp3
.flac
A * can be used to signify all extensions, single extensions can be excluded with [NoForce] (see the =Xbox example in the picture, all formats except mp3 are forced to LPCM streaming).
See 'as is single' above for details on [ForceToSINGLE]
={no-identification} is a special identifier, for control points which do not send any identifying information and do not appear in the right hand list.
Configuration Files
The location of Assets Configuration files: ~/Library/dBpoweramp/