Hey Peter,
Are you experiencing any glitches or Problems when using Front Row with Lion?
Does it freeze and how long have you been testing it for?
Cheers,
Marcell
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Why No More Front Row?
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Hey Peter,
Are you experiencing any glitches or Problems when using Front Row with Lion?
Does it freeze and how long have you been testing it for?
Cheers,
Marcell
None whatsoever. It works exactly as it used to under Snow Leopard: Movies, movie trailers, iTunes songs, etc. Everything works as it's supposed to. You can run it by double-clicking its icon in Applications, or by clicking its icon in Launchpad, or by clicking Command-Esc or using your remote. All the remote buttons work as they are supposed to work. So, short answer, it works as it should.
PS I've only tested it for two or three days, which is when another forum member's input led me in the right direction as to what had to be copied.
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Regardless of alternatives, there's still a question of WHY Apple decided to hide the feature. FrontRow isn't perfect but it was a great foundation, yet it seems Apple is abandoning it with no 1st party alternative. (I own 2 AppleTVs but they don't fill the gap because they require a computer being on 24/7 to serve content which means it may be more practical to just turn the Mac Mini wFrontrow into your iTunes player)
Unless one of us had an inside contact in Apple who was willing to explain their reasons, we won't know for sure. Perhaps Apple are planning to sell a revamped version of Front Row (possibly under another name) in the App Store in the near future. If and when that happens, I'll be happy to buy it if it brings worthy functionality. If not, I'll keep using Front Row for as long as it runs under OS X or XI or whatever.
I feel the same way. I always wondered why Apple didn't include the remote with new Macbooks anymore, it appears they may have been planning to get rid of front row for a while now. What a shame.
Just to offer additional perspective, I have over 6,500 TV episodes and 300 movies connected to my Mini home theater, and we use Front Row exclusively to access them with the Apple remote. Many of them were purchased through iTunes and I'm able to manually metadata through iTunes and have it come up perfectly in Front Row, every time.
For the heck of it, I tried setting up a similar setup in Plex (figuring the lion's share was non-iTunes purchased and the metadata scraped from Plex would be more visually pleasing. I like a challenge, and I don't give up easily, but I threw in the towel after two days. I tried Plex 8 and Plex 9. I tried manipulating episode titles to make it easier Plex to pull the metadata (which changed the titles in iTunes and Front Row) and I tried telling it to find just my local Metadata. It either mistagged a large chunk of my content, would show 21 episodes out of 22 episodes in a season, and the Media Manager would not let me easily manually make changes, which I gladly would have made.
In the end, iTunes was a snap. Nothing against Plex - maybe there was something I was missing, but it would have turned too many hairs gray.
And I asked elsewhere, but there's a knowledgable crowd here. Front Row works under 10.7 with iTunes 10.4 now. Will it work under 10.5? And is it possible iTunes could prevent it from working with a patch if I upgrade, because easy use of Front Row is an absolute dealbreaker.
For the heck of it, I tried setting up a similar setup in Plex (figuring the lion's share was non-iTunes purchased and the metadata scraped from Plex would be more visually pleasing. I like a challenge, and I don't give up easily, but I threw in the towel after two days. I tried Plex 8 and Plex 9. I tried manipulating episode titles to make it easier Plex to pull the metadata (which changed the titles in iTunes and Front Row) and I tried telling it to find just my local Metadata. It either mistagged a large chunk of my content, would show 21 episodes out of 22 episodes in a season, and the Media Manager would not let me easily manually make changes, which I gladly would have made.
In the end, iTunes was a snap. Nothing against Plex - maybe there was something I was missing, but it would have turned too many hairs gray.
And I asked elsewhere, but there's a knowledgable crowd here. Front Row works under 10.7 with iTunes 10.4 now. Will it work under 10.5? And is it possible iTunes could prevent it from working with a patch if I upgrade, because easy use of Front Row is an absolute dealbreaker.
Does this "hack" for front work work with Lion and iTunes 10.4 64-Bit Cocoa?
