Use for Apple Remote Menu Button in 10.7?

[GuitarG20]

Hey all,

Does anyone know anything that I can do with the menu button on my apple remote in 10.7? Currently it does nothing.

I would like something like FrontPage (which doesn't work with Lion as far as I know) to play my iTunes music with the remote. Does anyone know anything that does this?

Thanks,
Greg

[SideStepSociety]

I believe you mean Front Row.

Front Row works in Lion if you do the following.

1) Copy the required files from a Snow Leopard install, or get them from somewhere. This is more than just the Front Row app from the Applications folder.

2) Set up a local share of your iTunes library.

Once Front Row is (re)installed, the remote will work swimmingly and Front Row will launch.

However, you'll notice it won't find your music library. Pictures and videos should work fine. However, in order to get your music, you'll have to "share your library with yourself", go to sources on the main menu and voila, your music is there, albeit with missing album art.

[GuitarG20]

Front Row, thank you.

So would it work if I used the installer listed here: Get Front Row for OS X Lion

and then followed the extra instructions you gave me?

[SideStepSociety]

If you can, I'd suggest getting it directly from a SL install, if you have one available.

I'd suggest reading this:

http://www.mac-hatter.com/blog/frontrowenablerforlion

And:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.ph...10915094018524

You'll want to read the comments in the second link as the article itself has some errors

[GuitarG20]

I followed all the instructions, including the ones about making the dupe file to get Front Row to access to, and it still didn't work... maybe I should just give up ><

[SideStepSociety]

Do you have iTunes open? Is sharing enabled in iTunes?

[GuitarG20]

yes and yes, but i also have a password on it because I live in a dorm with many computers all on the same network... does that affect it? also I keep getting an error like this when I try to manually enable it...


I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong...

[SideStepSociety]

Try the very first command listed in the article and see if it works for you then.

If that works, it should work "permanently" by using one of the commands in the comments. I suggest the one posted by "richiesmit".

[GuitarG20]

Originally Posted by SideStepSociety

Try the very first command listed in the article and see if it works for you then.

If that works, it should work "permanently" by using one of the commands in the comments. I suggest the one posted by "richiesmit".

This works, but only when i set my library to public, which isn't ideal because I am running on a Wi-Fi network with about 150 other students...

[SideStepSociety]

Ahh, that may not quite be the solution for you then. I'm afraid there isn't any other way at this point.

[GuitarG20]

Originally Posted by SideStepSociety

Ahh, that may not quite be the solution for you then. I'm afraid there isn't any other way at this point.

well, by public i mean it doesn't seem to work when i set a password, which is kinda necessary...still no solution?

[SideStepSociety]

In theory, it SHOULD work. I'm not sure if Front Row was able to connect to password protected shares pre-Lion/iTunes 10.4.

But assuming Front Row could read protected shares, then perhaps the conflict lies in how the shares are protected in newer versions of iTunes.

[GuitarG20]

yeah it's weird... when I secure the library, the option to connect to it doesn't even show up. it must be some problem with authentification or something.