Front Row is missing

Who can tell me how to get front row back.. the remote or command-esc won't open it.
I think I lost it after reinstalling Mac OS X (on the advice of the apple helpline, to solve some problems I had)
Thanks

If you re-install Mac OS X, then you might lose Front Row. After you startup and log in, you should be able to put your Mac OS X install disk in the drive and you'll see an "Install Bundled Software Only" option. When you get to the Installation Type window, you should be able to customize the installation and uncheck everything except Front Row.
-Doug

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Front row application missing

Hi
I used to have an app called Front Row, which seems to have disappeared, it enabled me to look at photos, movies and trailers.
I have recently updated to Lion and not sure if the app disappeared at this point but, but I don't seem to be able to get it back, can anyone help?

While it doesn't come with Lion you can put it back on from Snow Leopard if you want
See here: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20084238-263/how-to-install-front-row-on-os -x-lion/

Front Row Installer

Recently I crashed my system when I messing around with terminal trying to enable smart card login on my Intel iMac.
I had to reinstall the OS (archive install) and during the reinstall process the installer hangs up on the last step (some iWeb script on disc 2). I attempted this three more times and the same thing always happens. The second disc would never finish with the install. I finally had to reinstall just the basic system on disc 1 and not install any of the software on disc 2 for the installer to finish. The process only took me 23 hours!
Everything is working fine now and I didn't lose any of my files, but now front row is missing. I've looked all over the web for some kind of front row installer but I can't find one.
Does anyone know if Apple still publishes the Front Row installer (1.0) and/or why is the second disc of the system installer always hanging up?
Any comments or help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
iMac (intel) 20 inch Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I don't know where is the Front Row Installer, but you could try to find it in the second CD, and if you find it, try to install it alone.
This kind of problem is usually caused by dirty or damaged media.
Is there anything logged in Console.ap when you try to install something on the second CD ?
Why reward points ?

Front Row disappeared from my computer

Ok, here's the deal. I was having some problems with my optical drive so I took my iMac G5(iSight) to a Mac store. They had to reinstall Tiger, which they did, but now Front Row is no longer on my computer, even though it came with Front Row already installed on it. I stopped back and they said I could use the reinstallation disks to get it back on there, so I put in the disk, clicked on "Reinstall Bundled Software" and it went through the entire software installation process....still no Front Row. Anyone have any clue what's going on here? I gave it to a Mac Store and when I got it back, Front Row was missing. I'm just trying to get figure out how I can get it back.
Thanks in adavance

The guy at the Mac store said that Front Row isn't a part of Tiger so he said they're not responsible...
Who was this guy? Where did you take your iMac in for service? Users of Intel-based Macs can re-install Front Row from the "bundled software" installer on the Mac OS X install disk. However, Front Row is NOT included in the "bundled software" installer for G5 iSight iMacs. Front Row is included in the Mac OS X installer for those Macs. Your technician is misinformed and used the incorrect disk to install Mac OS X. I would take your iMac back and have then use the correct disk to re-install Mac OS X. They are responsible for your copy of Front Row as it IS included with Mac OS X for your model.
-Doug

Front Row Apple TV

Why doesn't front row function the exact same way as Apple TV. I don't have a TV to buy an Apple TV for... but I do have a large monitor that I use for everything. I would probably be buying videos from Apple were I able to buy them through Front Row.

I too am disappointed that Apple have again allowed Front Row to fall behind Apple TV. For a very brief period when Leopard was first released, it looked like they were going to get in sync.
_Things Front Row is missing that Apple TV does have_
No YouTube support
No Rentals
No AirTunes support
No remote iTunes artwork support
No Flickr support
No .Mac web gallery support
No Closed Captions/Subtitles
However things are not all bad, Front Row does have the following which Apple TV does not.
Support for VIDEO_TS folders
Support for more video formats
The list of what Front Row does not have is however getting bigger
Personally, I have had to regard both Front Row and Apple TV as too limited, and instead (shock, horror) I use Microsoft Media Center!
+(At least I run it on a Mac.)+

Front Row missing artwork issue

Hello everyone,
Here is what i've experienced with missing artwork in front row.
2 albums of my collection refused to display their artwork in front row (these artworks were displaying perfectly fine in itunes, coverflow, finder songs icons and ipods off course).
After trying different things like deleting & replacing artwork, changing size of picture, and so on, nothing changed so i felt really disappointed...
...until....I remembered that i have created an itunes music store "wishing list", with 2 songs of these 2 albums. After deleting these 2 songs from the "wishing list" playlist, everything is back to normal, and front row display correctly the artwork..
thank you for reading, and hope it will help some of you.

This issue is still not solved in X.6.6,...
By the way, no one has bothered answering to this topic. I'm saying sending feedback to Apple is a good idea, but that is the only way I could figure. Any other ideas from your side?
Has anyone sent feedback to Apple? If not, please give their dev team some feedback about this issue.
Thanks. Comments appreciated.

Hi ! guys i've recently upgraded my macbook pro from snow leopard to lion.....now my front row app. is missing........is this a lion upgrade or a error.....pls help!!

i've recently upgraded my mac book's os from snow leoopard to lion.......nd i've noticed that front row app. is missing........i miss its liquid graphics of displaying entertainment stuff.........is this an os upgrade or error ....

No. There is no Front Row as part of Lion. But you might like to visit: Install Front Row on Lion.

Ver. 9 slow messed up Front Row, TV Shows show up missing, display issues

Ever since I've upgraded to iTunes 9 on Snow Leopard, it's been a constant joke.
-Launching it randomly consumes 100% CPU and sometimes I end up having to force quit. This problem did not exist on older versions. I repaired permissions, repaired disk, built a new iTunes library but to no avail. Same beach ball of doom.
-TV Shows in my iTunes database are showing up as Movies in Front Row even though they're correctly categorized and labeled as TV Shows and not Movies.
-When I woke up this morning, TV Shows (I might add, TV Shows not purchased through iTunes Store) are showing up as missing. If I click the file, it plays but I have to go through all 2500+ episodes showing up this way to remove that annoying icon saying the file is missing.
-I have it setup where the TV Show always played on a separate monitor set to fit to screen. Previous versions of iTunes did this with no problem but nope version 9. Not only does each episode restart on the main monitor, it plays as "original size" meaning every time I try to watch a few episodes I have to get up and click the mouse a few times to get it working properly.
Snow Leopard has left a sour taste in my mouth but iTunes 9 is really making me begin to think Apple doesn't care about quality software anymore. They need to get over this NDA nonsense and have a real beta testing program to squash these bugs before they turn millions of users into their beta testers. When Microsoft puts out software that looks stable in comparison to Apple's software as of late, there's a problem going on. Case and point, Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
Apple: The New Microsoft

So like I said before Apple hasn't made a fix for this but there is a work around...and yes I've tested it but only with one file. Go to http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10443786#10443786 it has a step by step and if you have lot it's going to be kind of time consuming.

Artwork Missing from Front Row 2 with Shared iTunes

From what I can see this is not solved in X.6.5
This topic is closed:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195773&start=0&tstart=0
I suggest to reopen one here. Cool if all affected users send the following message to Apple via the feedback form (http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html):
+Dear Apple dev team,+
+I would like to know what is the status in resolving the original Bug ID# 3792802 "Artwork Missing from Front Row 2 with Shared iTunes".+
+This issue has been around since Mac OS X.5.2, and is to my knowledge, still not resolved in X.6.5+
+Thank you in advance for your answer.+
Post your progress here. Thanks.

This issue is still not solved in X.6.6,...
By the way, no one has bothered answering to this topic. I'm saying sending feedback to Apple is a good idea, but that is the only way I could figure. Any other ideas from your side?
Has anyone sent feedback to Apple? If not, please give their dev team some feedback about this issue.
Thanks. Comments appreciated.

Missing Front Row Application Icon

For some reason, the icon for the application has gone missing in action. I can still use cmnd+esc and front row opens up, but I can't find the "chair" - I never have really used it, but I do remember seeing the icon in the apps folder. Ideas?

Yes, it still functions with the keyboard shortcut - its odd - at one time, when I first installed Leopard, it was there in the apps folder - I recall seeing it and not knowing what it was (relatively new to mac) - anyway, recently I wanted to explore using it a bit, and couldn't find it, thinking I was going insane -then I read about the shortcut, and it was working - but, no icon...

Front Row Missing

When I received my MacBook Pro it came with Front Row and all was dandy... A few months down the road I upgraded the hard drive to a larger one which of course resulted in me reloading the OS via the Install Discs that came with my laptop... and just recently I decided that I wanted to try to utilize Front Row more... but for some reason my remote didn't seem to trigger anything. I put new batteries in to make sure that it wasn't just the remote but that didn't make a difference. I then did some searching on my system and the software doesn't appear to be installed. I loaded the Mac OSx Install Disc and reinstalled the bundled software and still no front row... anyone know how I can get this reinstalled?

I actually have the exact same scenario. Got a bigger HDD and reinstalled OS X and my remote quit on me (but then I realized that FrontRow was missing). Just to make sure that the application isn't lurking on the drive not responding, I got the individual update for FronRow from the apple website and ran it (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/frontrow131.html) and the installer itself couldn't find it. I have a clone of my old HDD, maybe I'll be able to find it and get it to run?
Any other ideas would be appreciated...

Front Row: missing resume option

There's a serious issue with front Row... whoever decided what to put in the new Front Row forgot to add a "resume video" option. So now you have to start the movie from the beginning and go all the way forward (there used to be an option in Tiger to resume or play from the beginning)

Ok, I think I've got a handle on what's happening. It gets a little circular, especially the inconsitancies between iTunes movie playback and front row movie playback.
Here is my situation:
All of my Movies in iTunes are QT reference movies. They are all saved with the playhead at the poster frame, ie. some random time in the film. This was so that in the old front row the preview would start at the poster frame, not at the beginning of the film where the production company stuff is. In iTunes under options, all Movies have "Remember playback position" checked. The start times and end times are 0 and the end of the film respectively. Though, checking the boxes next to the start times and end times seems to have no effect and isn't saved when you close the window. Maybe i don't understand the functionality of those two settings. Anyway.
It appears that Front Row will still remember your playback position, but only if you are more that 5 seconds into the film. If you stop a movie earlier than 5 seconds in, front row sets the resume playback position to the position of the playhead in the saved QT file (not the beginning for me). It does not however set the bit to prompt the user to resume the next time the movie is played in front row. So stop before 5 sec, hit play again, playback jumps immediately to the poster frame, no prompt. I know that the position is saved upon stopping the movie because if i stop before 5 seconds and then quit front row and play the same movie in iTunes, playback begins at the poster frame. If i let it go for more than 5 sec in front row, playback in iTunes resumes at that point. This is all repeatable.
Going the other way -- resuming movies that were last played in iTunes in front row. This works, but is also buggy.
This is all a result of separating front row from iTunes. Something in my opinion apple never should have done. It is the root of most of the new problems with front row. In tiger i spent the time orgainizing my TV shows exactly the way iTunes and front row wanted them, name, season number, episode number. New front row says "f" that, how about reverse chronological for everything?!?! You may not be able to find the next episode of a show you wanna watch, but you get to that realization in less than three clicks! Apple: sacrificing mantra for usability. Honestly though, I don't think they really put that much thought into it. This is a secondary app that not many people use on an OS that was way behind and needed to hit an already extended launch date. They probably just dragged it over from apple TV, saw that it started and said thats that.
good luck

Why do I get a black screen in front row when watching some iTunes store purchases? esp Cars 2

We bought Cars 2 a few months ago from the iTunes store. The movie won't work in Front Row, we only get a black screen (except for the blue Front Row controls at the bottom) although the audio comes through just fine. The annoying part is all of our other iTunes store movies work fine in Front Row. Just Cars 2 is broken. I don't think that it is an authorisation problem because it plays okay in iTunes, Quicktime, even via airplay to an appleTV or via Home Sharing to our iPad.
The movie is only standard definition so I am guessing that it is not an HDCP issue; I understand that there is only HDCP on HD movies. We are playing it on a Mac Mini (core 2 duo) on a Sony Bravia via a VGA connector.
After a little bit of complaining, apple let us download the movie again in case the file was corrupted, but unfortunately the same problem with the new version.
The computer did have Perian installed at one point, but uninstalling and restarting made no difference.
I have found lots of reports of movies with missing picture in Front Row but these are all ripped videos, never with an iTunes Store purchase.
Apple won't refund our money as the purchase was more than 60 days ago by the time I gave up troubleshooting and reported the problem.

Yeah! Problem solved: It's a QT issue.
Cause: Mac Update Software downloaded a faulty QT.
Solution: Download QT from Apple's QT site.
Great to have the Video back

I prefer Windows Media Center (but I would like to use Front Row)

This is a plea to Apple that they would update Front Row with some more functionalities!
I'm using my Mac mini as a HTPC and it's doing it's job absolutely great - thanks to Windows Media Center.... Awwww, I wish I didn't have to write that
Well, it's all about functionality and at that point, I have the conviction that WMC is really kicking FR's a**. I really don't get why Apple has chosen to put a media center software (don't know if I dare to call it that) in their OS which lacks of so many important functions.
One of the important things for me, in a media center software, is support for TV tuners, and guess what... Windows Media Center has this, but there's no support in Front Row.
I would also like to see more integration with iTunes, so that I can use the Remote app on my iPhone to control the music in FR and so it's possible to use the party function (also with the Remote app, cause that works really great).
This is only some of the functionalities I miss in Front Row, but I do hope that Apple will consider those so I can get rid of Windows from my machine.
//Cheers

Best way to convey your wishes to Apple is to send them feedback.
Where to send product feedback to Apple:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Just stop already Front Row, I'm tring to use my APPLE TV!

I've searched the support threads and a few pages in this discussion group but missed what has got to be an easy fix. My Macbook pro is often either open and being used, or closed but still sitting in between me and my Apple TV. Whenever i use my apple TV remote, my Macbook- as it should- launched front row. Annoying especially when it is closed and in sleep, and now wakes up. How do I stop Front Row from launching when I am really working my apple tv. I rarely use it on my Macbok so I don't mind having to manually launch the application.

How do I stop Front Row from launching when I am really working my apple tv.
You will need to "pair" each of your two remotes with each device.
Pairing and Unpairing the Apple Remote with Apple TV
Pairing an Apple Remote with your computer (Note, this info is available directly in Mac OS X Help.)
-Doug

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