Several years ago, I had my PS3 running “slideshows” with photos displayed on the TV, accompanied by random music stored on the PS3’s hard drive. Regret not having a ready made answer here but your question has now got me thinking.

I am currently rethinking how I may achieve my main aims but although I am reasonably technical, my current knowledge of the market place is lacking so ideas please? This Apple TV box has optical audio output, I believe the later ones do not. I am also aware of various aging Apple products 'ceasing to be effective' after a while. First issue is that the Apple TV only caches a certain number of photos so after a short time repeats are frequent (I have over 12,000 images, I am not sure how many the Apple caches). This works but not as perfectly as I would like. The PC is 1Gig Ethernet connected to my router (A BT Home Hub 6) and the Apple TV box is wirelessly connected to the same router. to the TV via a HDMI out of the Apple TV box. This set-up also gives me the opportunity to randomly stream my photos also from my P.C. This is currently done by streaming iTunes on my PC to an aging Apple TV box and that links via optical to the Ruark. Also simultaneously I would like to stream my entire photo collection randomly to my TV.

My current requirement is for my music to be streamed from my PC to my Ruark MR1 Mk2 sound system.

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