Front Row Woes

[sunfast]

Couple of bizarre things happening with front row on my MacBook tonight.

The first, and minor, problem is that if I launch Front Row whilst playing something in iTunes, selecting "Now Playing" from the Music Menu doesn't work properly. It says "Now Playing" at the top and has the progress bar at the bottom but doesn't show album art / song info. It just has the menu options from the previous screen.

The major problem is that if I try and select music in any way through FrontRow (i.e. it's not allready playing in iTunes) it says I have no music in my iTunes library! This is clearly rubbish as if I exit FrontRow I can happily play all my music in iTunes. My iTunes music folder is on an External HDD but I've never had this problem before and my iTunes music folder is set correctly in iTunes preferences.

Got me really really confused this one. Any thoughts?

Cheers!

 

[CoMpX]

As for the problem with FrontRow not recognizing your music library, try a simple repair permissions in Disk Utility and reboot to see if that clears things up.

 

[sunfast]

As for the problem with FrontRow not recognizing your music library, try a simple repair permissions in Disk Utility and reboot to see if that clears things up.

Spot on! Cleared up the other problem as well. Thanks!

 

[Mord]

the only thing about frontrow is how slow it is

 

[sunfast]

the only thing about frontrow is how slow it is

You're not wrong. Why is it so slow?

 

[dhc]

You're not wrong. Why is it so slow?

Do you think this might be addressed in 10.4.7? or is more likely it''ll receive a dedicated upgrade?

 

[chaos86]

i put it on my powerbook, got salling clicker and a razr to control it and everything, and played around with it, but its no good because after leaving front row (its still running, just in the background) it continues to use about 70% of my processor cycles til i kill it with activity monitor or terminal.

 

[howesey]

i put it on my powerbook, got salling clicker and a razr to control it and everything, and played around with it, but its no good because after leaving front row (its still running, just in the background) it continues to use about 70% of my processor cycles til i kill it with activity monitor or terminal.

... and now you will get your account closed by the mods for talking about warez software.

 

[FleurDuMal]

You're not wrong. Why is it so slow?

How much RAM do you have in your machine?

 

[chaos86]

... and now you will get your account closed by the mods for talking about warez software.

and now youre threatening me.

running front row on non-front row macs has been discussed on these boards at length, with far more detail than what i posted.
oh, and since i've never seen or agreed to a EULA for front row, i haven't done anything illegal by using it in this manner, and i therefore haven't posted about doing anything illegal.

 

[sunfast]

How much RAM do you have in your machine?

Only 512mb at the mo (soon to be 2GB). I know that'll slow it down, but I still think it's pretty lame how slow it runs at the moment.