BETA: Craft your own experience with Personal Sections on tvOS and iOS

It seems that the video will not open when you use Library Collection via Content Row. Nothing happen when I click on the movie poster.

Ahh, good catch. I'll get that in there.

No rush. Thanks!

This is resolved in the latest TestFlight beta:

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Personal Sections now support Channel Collections in rows, allowing you to display current guide items.

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Sweet! I've just upgraded the "Music" Channel Collection that was in our guide, into a fuller-fledged Personal Section in the sidebar, that includes:

  • shortcuts at the top, to launch our favorite music apps (Spotify, SiriusXM, Pandora, etc.)
  • An "On Now" section that shows thumbnails for all music-related content playing for TV right now, including some Virtual Channels we'd created of:
  • Collections of concerts and music videos we've archived over the years
  • Links to some favorite ambient 24/7 audio streams

This is an excellent new feature, thanks so much @maddox!

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Now ya can!

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This is awesome!

Rows utilizing a Channel Collection containing movie in their title, will now present guide items with a poster aspect, just like On Now does.

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Fixed in latest TestFlight beta.

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As of the latest TestFlight beta, there is now a hard limit of how many navigation items you can apply to the sidebar.

After 15 items, no other items will show.

Does this work on Android clients? I can't get it to show up at all on Android clients. Thanks in advance

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Not yet:

Hopefully soon. I have apple 4k boxes but prefer androids so I'll keep watching for Android support hoping soon as this is a great feature no doubt Thanks for the quick reply brother :+1:t2:

Android development for Personal Sections will not start until the feature is complete for tvOS / iOS, per our usual development process.

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I hope everyone keeps posting their Personal Section examples. I get inspired by other folks ideas!

Is there (or will there be) a way to add a single live channel to a Personal Section... or is the best strategy to just make a Channel Collection out of that one channel, and to assign that, instead?

Channels Collections will be the mechanism for getting channels into rows in your Personal Sections.

This may or may not be a bug, but it took me some time to figure out so I thought I'd mention it.

I made a new Library Collection to use as a content row in a Multi Row Personal Collection. However, when I went to add it using the pull down row it wasn't on the list of my Library Collections. After a while I discovered I had to manually reload the Personal Collection page with my browser to get it to show up in the list. Usually these things just automatically show up without having to do that so thought it might be an issue.