Does anyone else think the old FrontRow look was cooler? Even down to the little sounds and the way the screen faded back when you opened it up, FrontRow 1 was much better. The new one feels like something out of Windows Media Center.
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Does anyone else hate the new FrontRow?
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There are several things i miss from frontrow 1, i liked the transition when you turned it on and turned it off, and i also liked the navigation a bit better. The thing i miss most about front row is the 30sec forward 10sec back to move trough videos. This new fast forwarding and rewinding is strangs. Still, frontrow 2 is worth it only for the increase in speed. i remember going into the movies folder, and then scrolling down, only to have frontrow lag for a few seconds...
Yeah. You pretty much summed up what I was thinking. Also, I wish they'd bring back the old Spotlight window that would come up when you clicked "show all". Things were better organized.
That appears to be because FR no longer launches iTunes in the background.
I much prefer the new FR. The old one looks like a hacked rush job with a Fisher-Price-type interface after a couple of weeks with the new one.
Love it
The new Front Row 2 is so much better and one MAJOR feature that no one has either mentioned or noticed is that it runs iTunes and iPhoto without launching them. That was one thing I always hated about Front Row 1, every time I played a song in Front Row 1 it would take a long time to launch because it was launching iTunes in the background and then when I finished with Front Row iTunes would still be launched and continue playing the song.
The same would happen with iPhoto.
Front Row 2 Rocks!
Sorry to the OP if you were expecting people to join you in your hatred for the new Front Row.
The new Front Row 2 is so much better and one MAJOR feature that no one has either mentioned or noticed is that it runs iTunes and iPhoto without launching them. That was one thing I always hated about Front Row 1, every time I played a song in Front Row 1 it would take a long time to launch because it was launching iTunes in the background and then when I finished with Front Row iTunes would still be launched and continue playing the song.
The same would happen with iPhoto.
Front Row 2 Rocks!
Sorry to the OP if you were expecting people to join you in your hatred for the new Front Row.
Ha, Front Row 2 is a blessing. The album art on the side as I scroll makes picking out movies a much more enjoyable time (which is nice when you have 170+ movies to choose from). Also, when you are looking through TV shows and it brings up the description underneath the album art. Yeah Front Row 2 is awesome and is why I also love my AppleTV so very very much.
See, I basically always leave iTunes open on my system, so having Front Row 1 use it was never a big deal for me. Especially since I may have already set up the playback the way I liked it.
In Front Row 2 for instance, I cannot tell to shuffle songs AND let me choose the song to start on. Can anyone enlighten me as to how to do that, it would go long way toward my acceptance of Front Row 2.
In Front Row 2 for instance, I cannot tell to shuffle songs AND let me choose the song to start on. Can anyone enlighten me as to how to do that, it would go long way toward my acceptance of Front Row 2.
I agree, I like the new Front Row. I don't think it makes sense to launch iTunes in the background - iPhoto even less so. To me Front Row is a completely separate application.
However - Apple should add a feature so that, if iTunes is already running when you start Front Row, it will continue playing the song when you exit it.
However - Apple should add a feature so that, if iTunes is already running when you start Front Row, it will continue playing the song when you exit it.
I never used Front Row until Leopard. When I saw how it was essentially identical to Apple TV and listed Sources I shared my iTunes library over my home network. Now we can listen to all audio or watch video all based on 1 mac and able to stream to multiple macs beautifully fast and seemless with wireless N. Hate the new FrontRow? not me.
Well allow me to agree that Front Row 2 is terrible.
It may have a faster menu, but there is not a 2-4 second delay between selecting a video file and it actually playing it. Also, the new volume control is stupidly small.
More annoying is the removal of the resume feature.
Leopard is great on my macbook for none-media use, but I'm switching back to Tiger on my media Mac mini. Hopefully that will fix the super slow computer-computer ethernet connection problem too.
It may have a faster menu, but there is not a 2-4 second delay between selecting a video file and it actually playing it. Also, the new volume control is stupidly small.
More annoying is the removal of the resume feature.
Leopard is great on my macbook for none-media use, but I'm switching back to Tiger on my media Mac mini. Hopefully that will fix the super slow computer-computer ethernet connection problem too.
As a recent switcher, I can tell you guys that front row in Leopard is amazing, I haven't seen anything like it before. Saying that this app is terrible seems very strange to me. You must be spoiled!
Yep same here!
You would have thought that with the new core animation stuff we'd get something better than a simple fade...maybe 10.5.1 might fix it
One niggle I have is that I can be scrolling through artists while I have music playing, and all of a sudden it'll jump back to a random artist. Normally it's the artists that's currently playing, but there's no depends. Slightly annoying if i've just gotten down to Z and it jumps back to A.
Haven't a clue why it does it, the old never did. Hopefully it'll get fixed with the next update.
Haven't a clue why it does it, the old never did. Hopefully it'll get fixed with the next update.
Well i think FR2 is still cool BUT..........................Answer this...
I have a external monitor for my macbook so i can watch my shows on big screen and need to get front row to work on it, i can do it via 'mirroring' the macbook display in preferences > displays, but this trims abit off the big screen and makes it look ****!!! HELP...... why havent apple made it like a proper application that you can resize etc.....
for life
I have a external monitor for my macbook so i can watch my shows on big screen and need to get front row to work on it, i can do it via 'mirroring' the macbook display in preferences > displays, but this trims abit off the big screen and makes it look ****!!! HELP...... why havent apple made it like a proper application that you can resize etc.....
for life
I love FrontRow 2.0
Simply because it runs on my Mac Pro
With FR 1.0 I had to edit the plist file(s) to get it working.
Simply because it runs on my Mac Pro
With FR 1.0 I had to edit the plist file(s) to get it working.
The original Front Row looked gorgeous, but was entirely unusable on my MacBook. Major delays when loading anything, lag everywhere when scrolling through albums/playlists, ages to load any content I'd selected, etc etc etc.
Leopard's Front Row is usable. I am going to use it a lot. That is the key. I never ever ever ever ever used Tiger's Front Row except when I wanted to show people the cool rolling in effect. I wish that was still there. I'll sacrifice it though for the fact that the thing is now usable.
Leopard's Front Row is usable. I am going to use it a lot. That is the key. I never ever ever ever ever used Tiger's Front Row except when I wanted to show people the cool rolling in effect. I wish that was still there. I'll sacrifice it though for the fact that the thing is now usable.
Yup, it works like this:
I got a Mira Infra-red receiver (from TwistedMelon).
I bought an Apple remote from the Apple Store
It works.
You can also use the remote in EyeTV etc