Apple Releases Front Row 2.1.2

[jom1133]

Front Row Remots

Strange problem with since I've downloaded this update... when i press the menu on the apple remote if itunes is open it just flicks from the itunes window to the desktop - the front row menu doesn't work! If itunes is not open it works ok but still no airtunes streaming which is what i was really hoping for with this update....

Does anyone else have the same problem?

 

[fenster1977]

I found out how to install the old Front Row in Leopard, because of the iTunes issue. I saw this update and how it said, "Improved iTunes compatibility" and assumed Apple had decided to fix it. So I installed it.

NO. Still isn't connected to iTunes. WHY DID THEY DO THIS??? Has anyone figure out what the benefit of this is??? It's just dumb.

So what exactly is the "improved iTunes compatibility" anyway?

Ridiculous. Apple, listen to your customers and bring back the old Front Row functionality already!!!

 

[Masquerade]

any luck with remote artwork in this frontrow update?

 

[Analog Kid]

Still lacking volume control for digital out...

I don't understand why they don't just use the same playback engine they do in iTunes (or better yet, DVD Player).

 

[weckart]

NO. Still isn't connected to iTunes. WHY DID THEY DO THIS??? Has anyone figure out what the benefit of this is??? It's just dumb....

Ridiculous. Apple, listen to your customers and bring back the old Front Row functionality already!!!

Which customers? I like the newer Front Row as it is much quicker at actually finding media and playing it. Movies used to take an age to initialise and play.

 

[taten]

Airtunes & Front Row (can't they just get along)

I am just going to through my voice into the mix of people who are frustrated with the inability to control their iTunes music play through Front Row in OS X 10.5 when we were quite able to do so in Tiger. OK, maybe I'm not a movie nut and don't have the "apple TV", but come on guys! Support iTunes again PLEASE! This is by far the biggest disappointment to me with 10.5 (I like a lot of the other features, but this just kills me... my iLife was much better when I could sit on my couch, look at my monitor across the room, and use the remote to control my streaming audio over to my stereo). Why do I have to romanticize life with 10.4 instead of living a new and better iLife with 10.5?

 

[fenster1977]

Which customers? I like the newer Front Row as it is much quicker at actually finding media and playing it. Movies used to take an age to initialise and play.

i agree that it's quicker and slicker. But to make Front Row an entirely separate player, aside from iTunes is so frustrating. Often I have friends over and we're listening to music, with my MBP hooked up to my LVD tv, so everyone can see what's playing. But if one of them wants to play something they want or edit the playlist i have going, they have to stop the music. That's ridiculous.

Surely, if they can create the Air, they can make a Front Row that is snappy AND uses iTunes as the back end.

Isn't Apple's goal to make iTunes the the core of the the multimedia experience on the Mac?

 

[gotohamish]

Still lacking volume control for digital out...

I don't understand why they don't just use the same playback engine they do in iTunes (or better yet, DVD Player).

Volume out is disabled on most devices when using digital out, and it makes sense to have only one universal volume.

 

[derboy]

Shared movies

Now you can only look at other people's music not movies. You used t be able to browse another computers movie folder. - now you can't. cheers apple

gutted that i updated front row.