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Apple Releases Front Row 2.1.2
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still no resume!
...yet since upgrading to Leopard I still haven't been able to "resume" any movies etc.. they always start from the beginning again...
i thought it would be fixed in this new frontrow update.. or maybe its a leopard 10.5.2 update thing??
...yet since upgrading to Leopard I still haven't been able to "resume" any movies etc.. they always start from the beginning again...
i thought it would be fixed in this new frontrow update.. or maybe its a leopard 10.5.2 update thing??
I am loving this update! 
Prior to this update I would press the "Menu" button on my Remote and it would take 2 or 3 minutes for Front Row to load on my 1.83GHz C2D Mac Mini (running Leopard). It was faster to leave Front Row on my dock, get up and click the icon than waiting on it to load from the remote.
After the update Front Row consistently starts after 10-15 seconds now. Finally I'm loving Front Row. Thank you Apple.
Prior to this update I would press the "Menu" button on my Remote and it would take 2 or 3 minutes for Front Row to load on my 1.83GHz C2D Mac Mini (running Leopard). It was faster to leave Front Row on my dock, get up and click the icon than waiting on it to load from the remote.
After the update Front Row consistently starts after 10-15 seconds now. Finally I'm loving Front Row. Thank you Apple.
It's because Leopard's Front Row accesses your movie files directly, not through iTunes. Therefore, it doesn't remember where you left off.
Renting movies?
I take it the update allows for playing rented downloads now. Can you rent movies through the new FrontRow (a la Apple TV), or do you still need to do that through iTunes?
update: OK, so now that I've updated FrontRow, and had a look myself, I see that the answer is NO. I was hoping that FrontRow would maintain its feature set with AppleTV. Maybe another update in 2 weeks when the AppleTV2 software update is released?
I take it the update allows for playing rented downloads now. Can you rent movies through the new FrontRow (a la Apple TV), or do you still need to do that through iTunes?
update: OK, so now that I've updated FrontRow, and had a look myself, I see that the answer is NO. I was hoping that FrontRow would maintain its feature set with AppleTV. Maybe another update in 2 weeks when the AppleTV2 software update is released?
Prior to this update I would press the "Menu" button on my Remote and it would take 2 or 3 minutes for Front Row to load on my 1.83GHz C2D Mac Mini (running Leopard). It was faster to leave Front Row on my dock, get up and click the icon than waiting on it to load from the remote.
After the update Front Row consistently starts after 10-15 seconds now. Finally I'm loving Front Row. Thank you Apple.
I was having the same problem. Front Row on my mini was painful. Between the lag and the blank screen glitch. I hurt to use it. Front Row was a really impressive feature for my wife, but with how it was acting, she never used it.
Now that I updated last night, it is back with vengance.
i installed this on my mbp last night. i don't really use front row that much though. maybe this will make me use it more
That's a bit weird because in Tiger's Front Row I could resume all kinds of movies, even those on my external disk (by creating an alias in the Movies folder) that were not in iTunes. I don't see any reason why this could not work. It should be possible by adding the data into a plist file, or am I thinking wrong here?
resume works for me
Resume works on my setup. Are your movies in iTunes? I don't think things outside your itunes library will resume, but i'll have to double check when i get home.
Resume works on my setup. Are your movies in iTunes? I don't think things outside your itunes library will resume, but i'll have to double check when i get home.
Yes, well that's just not enough. I have a number of movie files that I keep on an external hard drive and I don't want to have them in my iTunes library. But I do want Front Row to remember how to resume playing them, like it used to be able to. That was one of the best features of Front Row, and I really want it back.
The great effect opening front row is gone. The desktop used to slide away and the big images would appear. Now your desktop just fades to black.
This is the main thing about Leopard that annoys me... Why on earth would they remove such a cool feature.. Hope apple get around to fixing this in 10.5.2.. Please apple.. pretty please......
Update organises TV Shows via series number???? This is CRAP.
Well the new update organizes my TV Shows via the series number not the show name, so now when i click on TV shows i get:
Prison Break
Prison Break
Prison Break
- each of these is series 1, 2 and 3 - not very smooth not very apple.
Lost
Lost
Lost
- each of these is series 1, 2 and 3 - not very smooth not very apple.
The last version was better for me......... any one have this or a fix for it?
Well the new update organizes my TV Shows via the series number not the show name, so now when i click on TV shows i get:
Prison Break
Prison Break
Prison Break
- each of these is series 1, 2 and 3 - not very smooth not very apple.
Lost
Lost
Lost
- each of these is series 1, 2 and 3 - not very smooth not very apple.
The last version was better for me......... any one have this or a fix for it?
until front row can use airtunes it's useless to me...
I know same here. I was very excited about the update because I thought maybe they would add airtunes support back, but they didn't.