Interrupted music on iTunes & Front Row.

After playing music for a while it begins to freeze & other systems suffer an operating lag. Is extended use (especially at maximum volume) causing a power drain that effects software efficiency? Should I get external speakers?

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Shuffle music videos using front row

Hello, I just can´t figure it out, can I shuffle music videos using front row?
MAc mini Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I don't think anyone's figured out how to do that. Music and music playlists from iTunes are played through iTunes. However, even if your video is inside iTunes the video is played through Front Row using the QuickTime Player application, not iTunes. Since the QuickTime Player application is not reading playlists from iTunes and has no "shuffle" option of its own, I don't think it can be done. If you do make a playlist in iTunes that has videos on it, all you get is the audio and a black screen when they're played with iTunes.
I would suggest you send Apple some Mac OS X feedback and let them know you'd like to see an option like this.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
-Doug

Interrupting Keynote 3 with Front Row

When I interrupt a slide with Front Row to play a song, I get the desktop back afterwards rather than the slide I interrupted. I have to manually click on the Keynote icon to get back to my slide. Is this the intended behavior? It would be really nice if the interrupted slide would come back up.

When I interrupt a slide with Front Row to play a
song, I get the desktop back afterwards rather than
the slide I interrupted. I have to manually click on
the Keynote icon to get back to my slide. Is this the
intended behavior? It would be really nice if the
interrupted slide would come back up.
This drove me mad until I discovered the trick. This assumes you're using the Apple Remote.
1) click through KN until the point you want to switch out to Front Row. (This can be any point, say build 27 on a slide with 43 builds. It can even be in the middle of an embedded QT movie - yes, even a 1920x1080 HDV assuming you've got the codec from FCP or QMaster).
2) this is the important bit. Click the ENTER button on the remote - in the centre of the click wheel - BEFORE you click the MENU button to call up Front Row. The freezes KN at exactly the moment you click.
3) Do whatever you want in Front Row
4) Return to KN using the MENU Button to get back up the Front Row hierarchy
5) Then click the ENTER button again to restart KN at exactly the point you left it. You do not get the Desktop back and you do not need to manually click the present slides button in KN.
This really blew 'em away at one of my recent gigs.
MacBookPro 17. G5 Dual 2Ghz. iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Is it possible to play one music video after another in itunes/front row?

Hi all. Can anyone help me with this problem? When I use the movie part of front row to watch and listen to music vids I have front row goes back to the movie menu after each video has ended. Is it at all possible to watch one video after another without having to scroll down to the next music video after each music video has finished playing? Not sure if im being incredibly dense but any help would be greatly appreciated. I have Apple Care and they have no idea what im on about!
Thanks Rob

I've been doing some experimenting on this. I made a smart playlist in iTunes to gather all my music videos (which I have previously tagged with 'VIDEO' in the comment field).
In Frontrow, iTunes will not play the video at all- it just shows a single frame and plays the audio; in Movies, music videos, it will play one music video correctly, but then go back to the music video menu. This seems to be a known problem.
My solution is to go back to the desktop and use iTunes in the old fashioned way! Selecting my new VIDEO smart playlist will play all my music videos in any order I like using the normal parameters i.e. random, alphabetical by artist, album, name etc..
Hope this helps.

Itunes/front row Authorization Issue

THis is the first time i al very upset with an apple software. One week into the use of my new Macbook I was extremely thrilled to see the Front Row app running with the remote. I decided to import the mostly used Audio CDs that I have (originals) and imported them in MP3.
I hook up my Macbook to my home theater, sit down, use the neat little remote, and my music won't play
"Computer not authorized to play this track".
So now what? What can I do to play my tracks?
Paul

You are trying to a play a track that was purchased from the iTunes store. Just open iTunes and try to play the track again. It will prompt you for the user name and password that were used when the track was purchased. It will then authorize playback on that computer and then should play fine.
Any tracks you import yourself from CDs don't need authorization.

Stom Mac Mini from sleeping when iTunes/Front Row is playing

Just like the title says ..
When I play music through front row/iTunes, the computer still sleeps. This is not the case when playing videos. I've looked everywhere for setting to change this, but can't seem to find it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Blue

It's not the computer but the monitor that falls asleep when using iTunes.
You can change this in syspreferences, energy saving.
Sleeping of monitors is suppressed when you watch videos in full screen mode.

Stop Mac from Sleeping when iTunes/Front Row is playing

Just like the title says ..
When I play music through front row/iTunes, the computer still sleeps. This is not the case when playing videos. I've looked everywhere for setting to change this, but can't seem to find it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Blue

New version of osx seemed to fix the problem for me.

No music sharing to Front Row

Hello,
I'm running Front Row 1.3 and iTunes 7.3 under OSX 10.4.10. I have a number of accounts, one of which hosts all my music in iTunes with sharing switched on
My problem is, is that when I try to access the shared music from Front Row, it says "No shared music is available. No shared music is available on your local network at this time." This is in-spite of it being available in iTunes itself. In addition, if I play a shared song in iTunes, then go to Front Row and select "Now playing", the shared song is shown complete with album art.
Can anyone help?
Cheers, Stephen
iMac (24-inch Late 2006) Mac OS X (10.4.10)

I'm having the same problem here. I've seen this question asked a couple times in the forums, but no answers. If anyone knows how to make this work, it would save me a lot of trouble.

ITunes & Front Row

I recently did a fresh install of leopard and followed the process of copying/ backing up my whole iTunes folder and then replacing the iTunes folder within ~/music after the fresh install. iTunes opened up as I had left it before. Sweet!
I opened Front Row yesterday to watch a TV episode that I had downloaded and it cannot find anything in my iTunes library! Music nor movies. I'm newish to Mac. Has the replacing of my iTunes folder caused problems? Do I need to direct Front Row to my iTunes Folder (although its in the place that it should be)? Do i need to do anything with plists?
Hope you can help.
I hope I have done right by posting this here. I did check out the front row board and i didn't know if it was an itunes problem rather than front row.

found out solution myself. updated front row

Hide Music Videos from Front Row?

I have a lot of music videos in my iTunes library, but because Front Row lumps these into the "Movies" category it is very difficult to choose movies. I want to make the interface easier for my kids, but beyond deleting the music videos I have not found a simple solution.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I don't think anyone's figured out how to do that. Music and music playlists from iTunes are played through iTunes. However, even if your video is inside iTunes the video is played through Front Row using the QuickTime Player application, not iTunes. Since the QuickTime Player application is not reading playlists from iTunes and has no "shuffle" option of its own, I don't think it can be done. If you do make a playlist in iTunes that has videos on it, all you get is the audio and a black screen when they're played with iTunes.
I would suggest you send Apple some Mac OS X feedback and let them know you'd like to see an option like this.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
-Doug

Mysterious music in my Front Row

I'm not a huge Front Row user -- I pretty much just use it for DVD viewing. One day I explored a bit more and checked out the "Music" section, and found a bunch of music I didn't recognize, especially considering the titles were in Japanese, and I don't speak Japanese. Check it out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/endquote/2124583368/
I have no idea how that stuff got there. (I also have no idea how to take a screen shot of Front Row -- that's an iPhone pic.)
I have two Macs, a newish dual-core MacBook Pro, and an old Powerbook G4, which acts as a music server. I have an Airport Extreme providing network access to everything and two Airport Expresses for Airtunes use. The wireless network is using WPA password protection, and I just changed the passwords tonight. None of this music shows up in iTunes on either Mac. The only other devices on the network are an iPhone and a Wii.
What's going on here? Is there a security issue? Am I hallucinating? It's just so strange.

He he! I haven't actually seen a screen shot of that yet, but you're not the first to report this issue. Some people have resolved this issue by deleting the Front Row preferences. You can find the file in this path:
<Macintosh HD>/Users/<YourUsersShortName>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.frontrow.plist.
You'll need to log out and log back in after deleting the file. For some reason, your iTunes store preference has changed to the Japanese store.
-Doug

Unable to play any music after updating FRONT ROW TO 1.2.2

Please help, my Front Row refuse to play any music, after updating to 1.2.2 a day ago.
it shows all the folders in the iTune and the playlists but none of the songs in the folder, you keep pressing play and pause button and it TAKE YOU TO A shufle and the n ext one massage says "A PROBLEM HAS OCCURED".
It play the music videos and movies fron Front Row.
Please anyone enlighten me with your wisdom.
L. Namgyal
iMac inTel Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi
I have the excact same problem, however the problem is in my case not the upgrade in Frontrow, as the trouble was present before aswell. Everything works fine for me ONCE, but if i return to my desktop after having activated frontrow, and then reactivate it, i get the same error as you. I can solve the problem by Quiting FR and then relaunching it again, but this is not acceptable.

Getting back my iTunes/Front Row partnership

Does anyone know a way to keep the music I start in Front Row to continue playing in iTunes when I exit Front Row as in past versions? Also, vice versa... I like using Front Row to play music when we have people over and the main problem is that I can't use Airtunes with Front Row
Am I missing some sort of setting somewhere?

Did you back up your files before wiping the MBP? If not, everything is gone. Apple does not provide for a second free download. It has been reported that sometimes will they allow for a once in a liftime occasion to download a second time but it is totally at their discretion. They specifically say the user is responsible for backing up their own files.
If you did back up, what procedure did you use?
Uh, technically rebooting a computer isn't rebuilding it, it's just restarting the computer.

Weird Japanese music preview in Front Row.

Hello.
For some reason, inside Front Row, I have an option to hear 30 second snips from various J-Pop artists.
Why ????
I don't listen to J-Pop, I have never listened to J-Pop, and I have never used the Japanese iTunes store (The text is in Japanese...).
How do I get rid of this ?

Do you mean to ignore the iTunes options all together? Check out this recent topic. You should be able to disable it by typing (or copying and pasting) this command in the Terminal utility:
defaults write com.apple.frontrow EnableITMS -bool NO
Then shut down Front Row with this command:
killall "Front Row"
-Doug

Itunes / Front Row mp4 and avi and xvid

Hello.
I have started collecting and moving my videos to my macbook.
From my linux/windows days I have avi xvid/divx files.
I have divx player installed on my mac and those files play fine if I click on them.
They also will play if I put them in my movie folder and use front row.
If I try to move avi and xvid to itunes. They will not import.
I assume this is the case becuase itunes is only allowing files into itunes lib that will sync and play on a vid ipod?
However with the move to appleTV and such there are those that are going to want a HQ video that maynot sync on ipod.
Basicly, I just need to know what format I need to start experimenting as far as size/quality ratio so that I can move my vids to that format.
Thanks for your help.
T

If I try to move avi and xvid to itunes. They will not import.
I assume this is the case becuase itunes is only allowing files into itunes lib that will sync and play on a vid ipod?
Close... Quicktime has to be able to support the formats for them to be accepted into iTunes.

Interrupted music on iTunes & Front Row.

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