Right-click the current album art area and select Paste Album Art from the drop-down menu to paste the new album art into position. Verify that the correct image pasted into the box. The Bliss album art downloader runs in the background as you add music to keep your album art up-to-date. It comes with 500 free album art fixes, after which you are asked to purchase additional fixes. Bliss is iTunes compatible, but it doesn't support multiple library locations. You'll have to direct it to a single library at a time. On Android, VLC does not look for 'cover.jpg' in the folder containing the album. This is a standard mechanism for finding album art, and it is tremendously useful when the files do not have ID3 (e.g. (Incidentally, clearing the media database does not make it pick up any changes in embedded album art.) Thanks, jonathan. The free, open-source VLC Media Player gives users the best of both worlds by displaying album art for whatever song is currently playing. Enabling automatic album art downloads in the program's options will find and display album covers for most music, but for obscure artists, you may need to manually add album artwork.

• You can cast content from a VLC player to your Chromecast-connected TV from a Mac or PC.
• As long as your devices are on the same Wi-Fi network, casting from VLC to Chromecast is a seamless process.
• Once you're casting, you can use the VLC controls on your computer for the video's playback functions.

The VLC media player is one of the most user-friendly platforms available for video playback, making it a great option among free media players.

And as of its 3.0 version released in 2018, you can now cast VLC from your Mac or PC to a Chromecast-connected TV.

Here's how you can cast from your computer's VLC player to a Chromecast in three easy steps.

How to cast VLC to Chromecast (Mac or PC)

1. Open the VLC media player app, and click 'Playback' from the main options menu at the top. In the Playback dropdown menu, click 'Renderer.'

2. A pop-up should appear beside the 'Renderer' option â€' select your Chromecast device. If you don't see your Chromecast already listed, click 'Scan.'

If your Chromecast device doesn't appear in VLC, make sure your devices are all on the same Wi-Fi network.

3. Open a file to play in VLC. If you are given an 'Insecure site' prompt, click 'View certificate' and 'Accept Permanently.'

How to cast VLC to Chromecast (PC only)

You can use the aforementioned method for Mac and PC, and PC users can also perform the steps to cast using a few right-clicks:

1. Start playing the media in VLC you want to cast to Chromecast.

2. Right-click on the video, then select 'Playback,' 'Renderer,' and the name of the Chromecast.

Make sure your media is playing in VLC when you right-click on PC, otherwise you'll see an unrelated dropdown menu appear.

Your video should play immediately. You can use the VLC buttons to control the video playback on your Chromecast-connected TV.

If you're not able to locate the Chromecast in VLC, be sure your computer and Chromecast are on the same Wi-Fi network â€' only Chromecast-connected TVs on the same network will be listed.

If you're still having an issue, you may also need to disconnect from your computer's VPN, if you're using one.

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A few weeks ago, we talked about the best apps for Apple TV and even showed you how to get a web browser on Apple TV. But apart from that, you’d also expect Apple TV to be a step ahead in the streaming section as well, wouldn’t you? If you want to play any video on your Apple TV without having to use the iPhone or iPad. Well, you all know the answer to that. Yes, its VLC media player for Apple TV. But have you ever been really able to use it seamlessly? VLC for Apple TV although a powerful app, is not very intuitive and often full of errors. So, we made this guide to help you make the most out of it.

VLC for Apple TV primarily offers three ways to stream both local and online media.

1. Local Network

The local network media support in VLC for Apple TV lets you stream media from a Mac or Windows computer connected to the same WiFi network. All you have to do is select any local device under Local Network on the top left of VLC app interface and enter your login credentials for the selected device. You can then simply browse through the device disk and play any media file. VLC can even play the file formats that can’t be played on your Mac or PC.

Problems faced:

• Device is not visible on Local Network.
• Cannot browse files even after using correct credentials on Mac.

Solutions:

• Make sure that your Mac or Windows is connected to the same wifi network or LAN as your Apple TV.
• After you log in with the credentials of your Mac on the Apple TV, go to the Sharing option under Settings on your Mac and check if File Sharing option is on from the menu on the left. Also, click on options under file sharing on the right and check both the boxes you find inside. This will make sure that your Mac is accessible from your Apple TV and all the media files on your Mac can be then played on your Apple TV.

2. Remote Playback

The Remote Playback option on VLC gives you access to videos stored on your other devices without having to use your Mac as a server. Just swipe up to the Remote Playback option on the VLC app on your Apple TV and click on ‘Enable Remote Playback’. You’ll see two links displaying on the screen, one is the local IP address and the other is the local network address. You just have to type either of these on your web browser on Mac which is connected to the same WiFi or LAN network.

Once you open either of the links, you’ll see a page that offers two modes of media access i.e. drag & drop, and a file picker dialogue box. This dialogue box that says ‘Enter URL here’ which is not to be confused with a Network URL. It is rather a local address it requires. All you gotta do is drag n drop a media file which will then start uploading on the Apple TV local memory and alternatively you can click on the ‘+’ sign to browse through your Mac’s memory disk and choose a file to upload.

The files you upload will then be temporarily saved on your Apple TV local memory and will be visible on the remote playback screen at the bottom. You can simply click on a file and your video will start playing on the Apple TV screen. The reason we say the term ‘temporarily saved’ is because these files can be automatically deleted by your Apple TV if it requires the space for itself but until then, you can view the saved files multiple times without having to face the problem of buffering or connecting to your Mac.

Problem Faced:

• Clicking on the ‘+’ icon doesn’t do anything.
• Copy pasting URL doesn’t bring up the video.

Solutions:

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• There are two ‘+’ icons on the screen, you have to choose the top right one. Clicking on the ‘+’ icon in the center of the screen won’t do the job.
• You are probably copy-pasting a ‘web URL’ in the dialogue box which is not recognized by the remote playback feature. The URL here means a local address of your Mac and not a web URL. The simplest option is to drag & drop a media file in this window and it’ll automatically get uploaded to Apple TV local media.

3. Network Stream

The Network Stream option is most tricky of all. This option lets you play media with the help of a network URL and support network streams, including HLS, MMS or RTSP. Meaning, if you have an FTP or a web server online, you can simply use the URL of a media file stored in that server and play it on your Apple TV. And as far as we heard it can support the URL from one of your cloud storages like Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. which didn’t actually work for us but you may give it a shot. Maybe VLC support team could be of some help too.

To insert a URL just swipe to the network stream option and type in the URL in the dialogue box. Apple TV remote app on your iPhone or iPad will be of great use in typing that tedious and long URL. Alternatively, you may also copy – paste the URL using the Apple TV remote app. Additionally, VLC will also help you get subtitles for the media you’re playing through online sources like OpenSubtitles.org

The great thing about this feature is that once the URL is used, it’ll always appear on the screen unless you delete it. Meaning that if you want to see your favorite movie or a personal video, again and again, you just have to click on the URL and it’ll pop-up on the Apple TV screen.

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Problem faced:

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• There is only a buffer sign on the screen after you insert a URL and the video doesn’t play.
• There are too many wrong URLs that are saved on the screen which you wanna get rid of.

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Solutions:

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• The reason why your video isn’t turning up on the screen after you have checked it on the web browser is that you have been inserting a web URL whereas VLC for tvOS only supports a media-specific URL which is super tricky to find. This media specific URL could be found on the page source and it’ll probably have an extension of a media file as a suffix. As for your server is concerned you’ll have to use a precise media specific URL for that too. Although VLC support team hasn’t come up with an absolute solution to this issue, we hope this could be made rather simpler or else VLC will lose its charm on Apple TV.
• To delete a previously used URL simply scroll down to it and press the ‘play-pause’ button on your Apple TV Siri remote to get options and press ‘delete’. You’ll have to do them one by one if you have many wrong URLs in the list.