Front row cover

Is it possible to put a cover on every movies I have on my front row (alias folder) that's saved from my external hd?
thanks in advance!

I just purchased my first Mac in 20 years (Mac mini). it is a nice upgrade from my MAC 512K I had when I was a kid. I have finally figured out how to get my DVD's (backed up copies of what I already own of course) into front row, but I am still having trouble getting the cover art to show up in front row. I have the alias in my User/Movies folder. I can view the movies in front row, but the cover art wont show. I have the picture saved as a file named "Preview.jpg" in the video_ts folder and I still have no pic to the left of the title in front row. Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions are much appreciated.

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I've seen that you can use the remote to control Front Row even when the lapatop's cover is closed (on a MacBook Air). Is it possible with a first generation MB Pro? Are there special settings?
Thx

You can use a MacBook Pro in "clamshell" mode if you have the AC adapter plugged in for power, an external display attached and an external keyboard and mouse (USB or Bluetooth) to wake the computer after it's been closed. This is the official word from Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3131
However, even if you don't have a keyboard and mouse, you should still be able to wake the MacBook Pro using the Apple remote by pressing the "menu" button. (You do still need to have the power plugged in and the display plugged in.)
-Doug

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Album Cover Flow was working within Front Row a few weeks ago, but not now.
Any ideas why not?

Bizarre. This is going to sound weird, I know, but the full-screen Cover Flow now available with the latest itunes update is precisely what I was referring to when I opend this thread! I mean it's exactly what I was excited to have and then couldn't find again until I made the update tonight. I remember using the remote to control features like volume and track selection, which you can do in full-screen Cover Flow, so I suppose that's why I assume(d) it was in Front Row. (I still contend I was in Front Row, though, with Cover Flow.)
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Two problems with Front Row

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I have all my music on my iMac and I am streaming it to my Mac Mini connected to my TV and stereo. What I have noticed is that the cover art on my music tracks don't show when I play any of the shared tracks or playlists, just the default picture with the two notes. Is there something I can do that will display it? I have tried to start iTunes and connect the shared library there before starting Front Row but that didn't help.
I also have a problem with listing my pictures in Front Row. I have an external drive connected to my Mini that has all my pictures and movies. I have no trouble playing the movies (I created an alias in the Movies catalog to the Movies catalog on the external drive), but if I create an alias in the Pictures catalog to the Pictures catalog on the external drive the catalog isn't shown in Front Row. Do I have to import all the pictures into iPhoto? I don't use iPhoto at all because I always use the program that came with my Nikon camera that shows all the picture information, such as focal length, what lens I used, white balance setting, etc. (or Adobe Photoshop Elements it I want to make some changes). Is there something I can do to fix this too?
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Bernd, since your comp is still under warranty you may wish to give the online tech support a try -->HERE<--</a>. Click on the "Chat with a support agent" link.
If you don't want to go that route, then I suggest that you call them over the phone. Hopefully, you have the AppleCare Protection Plan if your 90 day warranty ran out.
Good Luck.
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Front Row music sharing

I have a MacPro and a new MacBook Pro, and I'm streaming the music library from the tower to the laptop. Using FrontRow (latest) I can stream the music with no problem, but no of the cover art displays .. why is this? I seriously hope my new $2k laptop can do as much as the AppleTV (obviously sans those extra ports) ..??

I think he means that he is sharing the music library because I have the same problem.
When I share from my iMac to my MacBook that is connected to my TV I dont get any covers in Front Row? But if I look at the same song in iTunes instead there is coverart.
/Johan

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So nearly there... anyoone else getting it to play Video_TS ?
or is this a not there yet feature...

This is great! I have an external hard drive with all my ripped VIDEO_TS folders on it. It is connected to my Airport Extreme and on the network via Airdisk for sharing. The disk is called "DVDz". I made an alias of the disk and placed it in my Movies folder. For each movie on your disk, first create a folder with the name of the movie, e.g. "Gladiator". In the "Gladiator" movie folder, place a jpeg of the movie cover named "Cover" and a folder called "DVD". In that that "DVD" folder, place the VIDEO_TS folder. If you nest the folders in this fashion, the new Front Row in Leopard will browse your movies and show the cover. Hook up to a projector and 5.1 sound system and you have your Apple HTPC solution. I am loving this! Thanks for listening, Apple!

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I would like to have the front row dvd player use the settings from my Apple DVD Player but it seems the current version of front row does not use those settings. On my TV, a 1080p sony display, the image quality is highly depended on these settings.
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You can't view cover art with the DVD Player. You never specified that you're using Video_TS folders, how could we have anticipated that? Maybe you should have provided that information up front. You will need a mouse. If you don't have a mouse and a keyboard and Front Row is not the solution for you, maybe the Mac mini is not the right option for your media needs? Perhaps you could turn on sharing via VNC and remote control your Mac mini from one of your other "many" Macs? There probably are solutions/options available to you, but if we don't understand the original situation, we're not going to be able to provide you with solutions.
-Doug

AirPort Express and Front Row

i am looking to buy this product and i am curious of one thing
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First of all you have to select which speakers to use in iTunes. Once you have set up the Airport Express you will get a pop-up menu in iTunes where you can select which speakers to stream to: computer or the airport express unit or multiple units depending on how many airport express stations you have. After that you control the music selection using Front Row. Personally, I was very impressed by Front Row at first but quickly grew tired of the static display of the CD cover art. There are other software out there that are more dynamic and give you the same level of control as Front Row. There are others where you have to use iTunes but the display is quite superior to Front Row. Enjoy the experience. What I would like to see is some kind of video streaming because most of us have our hi-fi's close to our TV's so it is only the next logical step to get video streaming to the hi-fi AND the TV. Of course, we can always plug in our iPods to the TV and get that effect but the Mac is supposed to be the media hub, not the iPod.
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Front Row preferences: I think it's about time

My experience with Front Row is limited, as I've only had my iMac for a few months now. However, in the short amount of time I have spent with it I find myself wondering why Front Row wasn't built with the notion that users may just want to have control over their experience. A few of the options I've found myself wanting:
*Turn on/off file scrolling*
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*Ability to target a different source folder, disk, or computer*
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*ID3 tags for movies*
- I realize this is asking a bit more than just adding a couple of checkboxes, but it would really enhance the user experience if you could give your movies ID3 tags (or equivalent) so that the process of finding cover art, previews, synopsis, cast/crew info, etc. would be automated. Currently it takes about 5 minutes per film to manually download/optimize this content. Honestly, if I didn't have OCD I probably wouldn't waste the time.
Consider this a running list of requests to Apple, if anyone out there is listening. The more I use the program the longer this list will undoubtedly get. It's an amazing feature which makes the Mac platform stand alone, but it's time to take this application to the next level. I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to usability, and right now this product has fallen short in my opinion.
I'd be interested in hearing others thoughts on this. I'm sure I haven't covered everything here.

I would really suggest you send Apple some Mac OS X feedback for each of your suggestions.
Option to resume movie...
Movies/TV Shows/videos inside iTunes will pause and resume. It's only the movies that live outside of iTunes that, currently, won't resume.
-Doug

Front Row Theatrical Trailers Icons Blank

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Prior to todays updates I would see a picture of a DVD cover as the artwork for a trailer. Now I see a rectangle with the QuickTime symbol and a question mark below. The titles of the trailers still show when I move from box to box and the previews start loading normally.
I tried removing my front row property list and the front row cache. I also created a new user and had no luck with that account. I've restarted my machine, disconnected all devices (macbook black) and tried repairing permissions. No luck.
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Front Row forgets passwords

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I have a Mac mini connected to my audio and video equipment and use Front Row to access music on other macs. The iTunes library on my MacBook is password protected, and fortunately Front Row is able to deal with passwords lately. *Sadly it forgets the password everytime* I reconnect to the music library and it's no fun typing the password with the remote everytime this happens.
So, is it just me, or is that the 'normal' behaviour. If I connect once from the Mac mini via Front Row, iTunes can't remember the password anymore, too. So, obviously Front Row does something wrong when storing the password. Does anybody experience the same problems?
Greetings,
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PS: Do you know how to access cover art over the local network? It's a big letdown browsing your music without covers...

I too am experiencing this issue.
I am running 10.5.3 with Front Row 2.1.3 (266). Each time i connect to my shared library on my Mac Mini i have to type in the password.
I have tried to use iTunes to remember the password in the keychain thinking that Front Row might get it from there but nope, it doesn't.
So is it 'Normal' behavior? If so then maybe it shouldn't be. Of late there seems to be more and more settings missing from Front Row, especially if you have iTunes failing to stream Video properly through quicktime (just get a loading bar for what seems like an age).
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VIDEO_TS meta data for Front Row?

Front Row in Leopard supports playing VIDEO_TS folders. You can also add cover art by saving a file as preview.jpg in the parent directory. The folder structure would be like the following.
/Users/fred/Movies/The Day the Earth Stood Still/VIDEO_TS/
/Users/fred/Movies/The Day the Earth Stood Still/preview.jpg
/Users/fred/Movies/Cloverfield/VIDEO_TS/
/Users/fred/Movies/Cloverfield/preview.jpg
/Users/fred/Movies/Attack of the Killer Tomatoes/VIDEO_TS/
/Users/fred/Movies/Attack of the Killer Tomatoes/preview.jpg
This works great, however I was wondering if there is any equivalent method for adding meta-data to VIDEO_TS folders. Obviously you cannot do the normal process of storing it as MPEG4 tags in an MPEG4 video file via iTunes. If it was possible I would presume the most logical method would be to store an XML file in each folder something like this.
/Users/fred/Movies/The Day the Earth Stood Still/VIDEO_TS/
/Users/fred/Movies/The Day the Earth Stood Still/preview.jpg
/Users/fred/Movies/The Day the Earth Stood Still/metadata.xml
/Users/fred/Movies/Cloverfield/VIDEO_TS/
/Users/fred/Movies/Cloverfield/preview.jpg
/Users/fred/Movies/Cloverfield/metadata.xml
/Users/fred/Movies/Attack of the Killer Tomatoes/VIDEO_TS/
/Users/fred/Movies/Attack of the Killer Tomatoes/preview.jpg
/Users/fred/Movies/Attack of the Killer Tomatoes/metadata.xml
I suspect that unfortunately this is not currently possible but does anyone know for certain?

Unfortunately it looks like currently there is no way to do it and Apple have been sorely neglecting Front Row (it has fallen well behind even the Apple TV which is far from state of the art). As Snow Leopard is concentrating on performance enhancements rather than new features, I do not hold out hope for any significant change for well over a year.
Note: Apple TV is not necessarily a bad product, indeed I bought one for my parents, it is merely like Front Row extremely limited, too limited for many people which is why it sales are (allegedly) so poor. I think the comment raised by more than one pundit that it fails to replace a box under your TV is an extremely important one. It does not replace your DVD player (there are still comparatively few movies on the iTunes store - assuming you are in a country which has any at all), the movies are too expensive compared to DVDs and do not offer either as good quality or as many features. It also fails to replace a video recorder or these days a DVR since it has no TV capabilities. As such it has to be treated as an additional box if at all, and as an additional box it increases the spaghetti factor and thus fails the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) even if it is by far the easiest to use product.
I have therefore switched to using Plex which is a Mac version of XBMC. Plex allows you to use VIDEO_TS folders just like Front Row (indeed the same folders can be used in both), but it does have a built-in 'library' which stores meta-data and artwork for these VIDEO_TS folders and any other videos you might have. It uses plugins called 'scrapers' to search sites like http://www.imdb.com for metadata about the movies, I have even written a 'scraper' to search Amazon for those few DVDs not listed on IMDB.
See http://www.plexapp.com
Since Plex does an excellent job handling VIDEO_TS (i.e. DVDs) it can 'replace' a box - the DVD player and also means the kiddies do not destroy your fragile discs.
PS. Horror of horrors, even Microsoft Media Center is 'better' than Front Row. This is practically the only category Microsoft has actually genuinely earned first place in rather than cheating/bribing/stealing/buying its way to.

Is Front Row the unloved child of iTunes?

I get the feeling that Front Row is the unloved child of iTunes. iTunes progresses, but there has been little change to Front Row.
MANY months ago, cover art stopped displaying from a shared library. Now we are witnessing many cases of videos not playing properly (e.g. Video but no sound, Sound but no video).
And my latest issue is that items in my iTunes library aren't even appearing in the Front Row app (which I will post next).
Please Apple / iTunes -- give Front Row the love it deserves!!

Angloswede wrote:
With the Leopard update disk I got when purchasing my Mac Mini in February, is there an option to reinstall just the bundled software, without being forced to reinstall the entire OS?.
bundled software means ilife ( iphoto, imovie, garage band, iweb and idvd). Is this what you are talking about? ilife is not part of leopard so it wouldn't be on the leopard upgrade DVD. if you want to reinstall it you need either a separate ilife DVd if you bought it or the original Tiger install disks that came with the computer. Insert the tiger disk, open it in finder and double-click on 'install bundled software only". this will reinstall ilife.
Is Front Row part of that bundled software package?
no. Front Row is part of the OS itself. you can reinstall Front Row fromthe leopard install DVD using [Pacifist|http://www.charlessoft.com>.

While playing, Front Row does not display album art but a white image only

When I go through my music library via Front Row, the album art is still visible, however, as soon as I play a track, the cover disappears and there's a white square instead that, as usual, changes its position from the left to the right side. Could that be due to size limitations? My album art is 2400 x 2400, approximately 4 MB each. Thanks.

Same for me on my Mac Mini: I can see the shared pictures but can't see the ones in the local library. Funny thing is that I can see that library from my other Mac.
Also I noticed that one picture appeared in the middle of the (empty) slideshow, only 1 of 67. In the list view, those pictures appear normally, as you can see in this screenshot http://d.pr/eiXB
I'm a first-time iLife user, so I don't know if the issue is '11-specific.

The new Front Row should take a backseat.

The Front Row on Leopard looks better, except for the fade-in/out effect instead of the desktop-being-pushed-back effect.
But its functionality has gone down. You can no longer resume movies or even leave the music on when you quit front row...
Is there anyway to get that functionality back on the new Front Row?? Its Apple, we should have everything, the looks and the works!
Its also a no-go on the feedback to apple... They don't have an option for Front Row.
If Apple people are reading this... you know what to do in 10.5.2!

arunjitsingh wrote:
The Front Row on Leopard looks better, except for the fade-in/out effect instead of the desktop-being-pushed-back effect.
But its functionality has gone down. You can no longer resume movies or even leave the music on when you quit front row...
Front Row appears to be a new application. The Front Row version supplied with remote control equipped Intel Macs seemed to call upon iTunes (and thence Quicktime) to do its heavy lifting. Thus iTunes helper would keep music playing after Front Row quit. The other feature you didn't mention you lost was that Front Row would play music wirelessly via Air Tunes and an Airport Express when it used iTunes. It also fails to use an external monitor for DVDs.
The new Front Row can be legally used by owners of Mac gear that doesn't have a remote control. This is a great leap forward for those who don't as yet have an Intel Mac, or who have a Power Mac. Plus Front Row now plays DVDs without invoking iTunes. It even plays DVDs from your hard drive (complete with cover art, if you add a jpg to the TS_Video folder). This is a great advantage for people living in the majority of countries where iTune Store does not offer movies at all. It would not surprise me to see further upgrades of Front Row fairly soon. Personally, I love it.

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