Front Row Music Help

The simple problem is, when I open Front Row it says that the track cannot be played. This only happens with some songs i.e. Dragonforce but works perfectly with others i.e. Muse.
Just for the record I have just moved over from a PC and my iTunes songs with it.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Front Row is reading your iTunes library. Do the songs you're having trouble with play fine directly in iTunes?
-Doug

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Front Row/music playback issue

Hi all,
I have a rather large music library in iTunes and I have my Mac Mini attached to my stereo and TV. I use Front Row for music playback. Recently, I have been having trouble as the music will "stall" randomly or "freeze" for a couple seconds, then resume playing. Very annoying.
I've noticed that this problem does not seem to happen if I select the music from iTunes without Front Row running or if I use FR to select the music, then back out of FR with the little remote.
Anyway, I prefer to keep FR running. I've seen LOTS of articles and posts regarding video freezing with FR, but not music. Anyone know what's wrong?
Thanks!

I have the same problem on my macmini. :/
And I too like to leave Front Row playing songs while I do other thing in my house.
It hangs in almost every song now, it never did that before. I wonder if it's this iTunes update...
Is there someone else with the same problem, or someone that could help us solve that?

Front Row Music

I was just playing around with Front Row, and I can't seem to find a way to change the music while viewing my pictures. Is there a way?

You control background-music in iPhoto slideshow-preferences. Just open iPhoto, select one of your events, click Start show -button in the lower left corner of iPhoto, choose a different music and save as a default. That should do it or else, you can make a custom slide-show in iPhoto, select photos, effects and music and then watch it through FrontRow.
Hope this helps.

Problem with front row, please help!

I got a year old MBP 15" which I updated to leopard, and it works generally fine, except for the fact that when using front row and leaving it playing music for about 5 minutes idle, it freezes, goes to blank screen, but still plays the playlist it was set on, but when I use the remote control, or press keys, it keeps frozen, the only way to quit is to force power off.
Please help me, as I really like Front Row and my MBP is my hub for playing music in reunions.
Thanks in advance

I have (hopefully) found a solution to my part of this problem. I was getting the ClassCastExceptions on any page with a <jbo:row> tag after doing a failed DML action. I have tested this with the delete event. (btw, I am using jdev9.0.3.3 w/ BC4J/JSP) Before what I was doing was this:
<% try { %>
<jbo:Row id="delrow" datasource="ds" rowkeyparam="jboRowKey" action="Delete" />
<% } catch (JboException jboEx) { %>
do something
<% } catch (Exception ex) { %>
uh-oh, this is bad
<% } %>
If I removed the try/catch block everything worked fine. Unfortunatlely, I need to try/catch block here. To work around the problem I changed the code to this:
<% Row rowDelete = ds.getRowFromKey(params.getParameter("jboRowKey")); %>
<% try { %>
<%
rowDelete.remove();
%>
<% } catch (JboException jboEx) { %>
do something
<% } catch (Exception ex) { %>
uh-oh, this is bad
<% } %>
The second bit of code does the same thing (but it doesn't use a bean like I think <jbo:Row> does) and it doesn't cause the ClassCastError on subsequent errors.
I really hope this helps someone else because it took me forever to get a workaround!
~Rob Lundeen

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

Turn Off Front Row Music Shuffle

Is there a method to turn of the music shuffle feature inside Front Row? I notice that every time the shuffle feature is always on "shuffle music".
Thanks to anyone that may have the answer.

I received an answer to this from our local computer shop. You cannot turn this feature off in front row.

Front row music stalls

Hi, I'm very new to Macs, just got my first, and a strange thing happens in Front Row. When viewing a slideshow, the music plays for about 4 secs and then stalls, the show continues, but pausing and restarting resumes the music... for about 4 seconds.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Hi,
I just came on the forum and looked for this exact thing!
My Front Row was doing what yours is, try this:
Go back into Front Row and go to your music pick a song and play it for a min or two. Go back to the main Front Row menu and pick your photos that you want to view. It should now play the music with the photos/slide show.
Good luck.

Front Row slideshow Help!

Is there any way to change the default '3 seconds' used for Front Row slideshows? I want to do this without specifically creating a slideshow in iPhoto to change the slide time.
As a related matter, can the default slideshow settings be changed for iPhoto also?
My Mom has an iMac and I'd like her to be able to use Front Row to view her iPhoto pics. But 3 seconds is way too fast for her sight, so I need to figure out a fix for this!
Thanks in advance for your help!

Is there any way to change the default '3 seconds' used for Front Row slideshows? I want to do this without specifically creating a slideshow in iPhoto to change the slide time.
As a related matter, can the default slideshow settings be changed for iPhoto also?
My Mom has an iMac and I'd like her to be able to use Front Row to view her iPhoto pics. But 3 seconds is way too fast for her sight, so I need to figure out a fix for this!
Thanks in advance for your help!

Is there a Front Row music preference to turn off the song time bar?

In fact, are there ANY preferences for the display of the music info at all?

I don't believe the auto correct feature is turned off after 3x crossing it out in the autocorrect box. I constantly abbreviate "with" as "w/" and it always auto corrects me to an "a" without the slash. This has happened probably 20 times so my iPhone isn't learning anything from me. I have many other examples and am also frustrated with this feature. But, I am getting used to using the x box on the auto correct now.

Anybody know how to stop front row music from spinning during playback??

I find this highly annoying!!

I assume you mean the cover art that flips back and forth while music plays. There are no configurable options within FrontRow to control this. Playing your songs in iTunes would be a workaround, and you could control your songs with the Remote app on your iOS device.
Otherwise, you can submit a feature request to Apple to add this as a setting:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Front Row doesn't play music!!!

I don't know what's going on with my Front Row, but my music and podcasts will not play on Front Row! It's weird: my movies play, my photos from iPhoto can do slideshows. It just doesn't play music. It always says: "Front Row cannot find any songs. Use iTunes to import songs or purchase songs from the iTunes Store." I just updated my iTunes, Quicktime, and all the other computer updates. Still no luck....

Yes, there are only three or four settings stored in there. The last module selected when you closed Front Row (Music, TV Shows, Podcasts, DVD, Photos, or Movies), the country your iTunes is set for (so Front Row can show the "top rated" items from the store) and whether or not you've turned on sound effects and/or the Front Row screen saver. No other preferences are stored there. All of the media-specific preferences are store in the application that controls that media (the DVD Player.app for the DVD settings, iTunes for the Music settings and iPhoto for the Photos settings).
-Doug

Front row doesn't play default music when displaying an event slideshow

I bought an iMac recently, the first time I used front row to display event slideshows it plays a default classical music. The same event displayed in iphoto '08 plays several default songs, but for some reason front row at this moment doesn't plays any music. I suspect that I clicked the save settings button in iphoto when I tried to play a slideshow.
Anyway, I would like to restore all the default settings and play the default music in front row and iphoto for all my photo events.

Yes, there are only three or four settings stored in there. The last module selected when you closed Front Row (Music, TV Shows, Podcasts, DVD, Photos, or Movies), the country your iTunes is set for (so Front Row can show the "top rated" items from the store) and whether or not you've turned on sound effects and/or the Front Row screen saver. No other preferences are stored there. All of the media-specific preferences are store in the application that controls that media (the DVD Player.app for the DVD settings, iTunes for the Music settings and iPhoto for the Photos settings).
-Doug

How can I use apple remote with Mountain Lion? Any Front Row alternative?

Hi All,
I recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.
All great except for my Apple Remote control.
Before, I could effectively control my iMac media with Apple Remote by using Front Row (music, photos, videos, good integration with iTunes and iPhoto).
Now, as I understand, Front Row is expired.
So, my Apple remote still works but with very limited options (just music, forward, backward and volume), and it's a real pity.
Any of you Guys know how to restore Front Row?
Otherwise maybe suggest an alternative (sth similar, should allow iMac media control by Apple Remote)?
So far I tried to restore all Front Row files by a Time Capsule Snow Leopard backup (as indicatred on some other Communities).
To restore was easy, but then, no way to launch it.
Any advice will help!
Thanks in advance/all the best.
Marco

Thanks Klaus1 for your prompt answer, although I went again through a dated discussion.
I also got the feeling that somehow they want to push Apple TV..
But, respectfully speaking towards our Friends at Apple, is it fair to promise what you don't deliver?
I have choosen apple because I percive it's different.
At currently published link: http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC377Z/A/apple-remote
they do promote the following:
Apple Remote with Mac
The Apple Remote gives you total command of your music, photos, videos and DVDs from anywhere in the room. It works with Front Row - a menu-based, full-screen interface - to make accessing the digital content on your Mac as simple as navigating your iPod. When you press the Menu button, your desktop fades and the sleek, Front Row interface takes its place, to give you control over your music in iTunes, your photos in iPhoto, the videos in your Videos folder and your DVDs. Turn up the volume. Shuffle. Skip to the next chapter on your DVD. Play a slide show, a home video that you made in iMovie, even a film trailer.
Compatible with Apple products introduced in 2005 or later that have a built-in infrared (IR) receiver. Not compatible with MacBook Pro with Retina display.
Cost for this is 15£ (19€).
Now, I have iMac and Mac Book Pro (no retina display) both with Mountain Lion installed, and I understand both of them are not compatible with Front Row.
Actually I adore apple tv and I got 2 at home nicely working on 2 different TVs.
So I accomplished twice their wish of selling this product to me.
Why shall they deceive me (and many others, as I read) by killing a still promised service?
Should I read all forums before buying a trusted-brand-product like apple, to ensure that id does what declared?
Don't get me wrong, I'm an enthusiast user of the whole apple family, since many years, and still I am.
Just politely complaining for this decision, which creates to Many an easy avoidable disservice.
Cheers
Marco

Front Row questions

1. Is the movie trailer list automatically updated? If so how often?
2. In the music section, the top two options I see are 'Top- Titel' and Top - Musikvideos'. Now I might be missing something but these appear to not be in my native language! Is there a regional setting somewhere?
Any help much appreciated.

Hi Matt,
1.) Yes. The trailer list is connected to Apple.com/trailers. There is no specific time frame in which the trailers are updated, but every time a trailer is added to the Apple.com page, your Front Row is also updated.
2.) I also have 'Top-Titel' and 'Top Musikvideos' on Front Row. I know German, and this is the language. I think that it is somehow accidentally connected to the iTunes Store language. One day, I changed the store language to German for one day, and then changed it back to English. From that point onward, Front Row music is now in German. But, this is not right, since everything else in Front Row is in English. (I am assuming you are the same.) Have you ever done language-changing to you iTunes Store? If not, then it must be an unrelated bug in Front Row. If so, I tinkered with iTunes languages, and nothing worked.
Sorry.
~Christoph

Front Row Blacking Out?!?!?!?!?!

when i got into front row to watch a music video it will go black for a bit and go to the video and the video will play and go black agian and the video will play and so on and its not the video i know its front row anyone help me?
-cody

I watch trailers on Front Row, when i enter the main trailers area, the screen goes blank and my "sleep" light flashes, if i click any button on the remote it returns to the menu. Then while watching trailers it will blank out for a couple seconds quite regularly ( minimum 5 times each trailer). Very annoying!

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