Audio Player for AppleTV - TVML

Question

does someone know a nice way to display a player with a picture, title and artist name for AppleTV?

I've tried with:

  videoURL = ele.getAttribute("videoURL")
  if(videoURL) {
    var player = new Player();
    var playlist = new Playlist();
    var mediaItem = new MediaItem("video", videoURL);
    player.playlist = playlist;
    player.playlist.push(mediaItem);
    player.present();
    player.play();
}

But nothing appear. Anyone to help?

Answer 1

Headline asking for audio, though you are setting up a video mediaItem. Try using the audio item, filling the metadata to your liking.

// set up new mediaItem
var mediaItem = new MediaItem("audio");

// player data
mediaItem.url = ...
mediaItem.title = ...
mediaItem.subtitle = ...
mediaItem.artworkImageURL = ...
mediaItem.description = ...

See https://developer.apple.com/library/tvos/documentation/TVMLJS/Reference/TVJSMediaItem_Ref/index.html as well.