Movie library from Front Row

i just realized that my front row is gone. I need to know where my library of movies has disappeared to so that I can still access those. Help, please.

Front row went away with Lion. Depending on hoe you updated your movies may still be in your movies folder. Movies can also be stored in iTunes.
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Can't access Itunes Library in Front Row

Well I sure am confused. I downloaded a TV show from Itunes last night, but could not access it from Front Row. Then I noticed that I cannot access any of the music in my Itunes library from Front Row. It simply is not listed. The only thing that is listed is "Itunes top TV Episodes". The only way I have been able to access stuff is putting it in my movies folder in the sidebar of my Finder window. Shouldn't I be able to access something I download from Itunes instantly, without moving the file anywhere?
Another weird thing is when I went to Finder>Help and typed in "Front Row" it said no results found. Other threads in this forum lead me to believe that there is a manual built in to the computer. Mine is hidden or gone somehow?
PLEASE HELP!!!!! I love my macs, but this kind of stuff drives me nuts!
I have Front Row 1.0
Itunes 8.2.1
OS X 10.5.7

Switched it to manual , all's OK . Thanks

Remove certain movies from Front Row

Hi guys!
I appreciate any advice or guidance on the issue; thank you in advance.
I have my movies in iTunes; they play fine in FR. A good chunk of them have terrible resolution from being compressed over and over with bad setting choices, mainly digitized vhs footage from home movies. Anyways, these movies look pretty bad.
Luckily, I have the originals on a external hd. They are mostly .avi and are in a better quality. I've realized I can just bring these into my "movies" folder, and they work fine, thanks to Perian. I do not do this though because I don't want to occupy space on my main hd, so I just make aliases and bring them into the "movies" folder.
Now, this is okay with me, but I'm a picky guy, and I like my style...
I want to change the metadata so that I can show "artwork" rather that a frame from the movie, plus have a description etc. On a side note if anyone knows of a better way then I am doing it, I am all ears!
So, I open the movies in Quicktime, and save as a reference movie. I then bring the reference movie into MetaX (which lets me add artwork, etc...) Then I can just pop those into iTunes.
Now, this is where it gets tricky/weird. I realize that:
1. I can drop these files in Itunes.
2. This takes up space on my main hd (which I do not want if I do not have to)
3. I now have duplicates (a low rez and a good quality version)
4. Syncing my iPod will bring the reference moves along "for the ride"
ok, so I can just choose which movies to sync to my ipod by checking which movies I want in the setting menu, so no worry about the reference files coming with.
I was wondering is there a way to make an alias of the reference file so that it doesn't take up any space on my main hd?
Irregardless of that situation, I am still stuck with 2 versions of my movies in iTunes.
I want the poorer quality movies on my iPod and iTunes, but only my good quality movies in Front Row. Is there a way to remove the poor quality moves from Front Row while still keeping them in iTunes?
Okay, one last question, which probably should have been the first one. What is the difference between a reference movie and an alias, outside of being able to change meta data? Is a reference movie the equivalent to the "box" that a dvd comes in? You know, it has some pictures on it, cast, description etc...?
If I bring a reference file onto my iPod, will it bring the original (good quality) movie instead? Or have I now got some sort of super awesome compressed version of the movie without any quality loss (or is this some sort of fantastic dream)?
Thank you for any advice. I'm sorry that this is a little long-winded.
I expect someone to replay with "No." as the answer. LOL
Thanks everybody,
Ethan

You're kind of on your way with the solution.
I would like to have posters for my good quality film in itunes+FR, but not on my ipod.
I want the low quality ones on my ipod, but not in my front row.
I've come up with a semi-solution so far.
I've brought the good ones into itunes, with the "copy files to itunes music folder" unchecked. I changed all the info in itunes, and posters etc.... Then I marked all of my low rez movies as tv shows, in a show called "movies"
it is not an ideal solution, but what I am really after is having a "clean" look in itunes when you choose "movies". This might be as close as I can get.
I would prefer something better if at all possible. But I can live with this if I have to. My main concern is that my "tv shows" folder is overflowing with shows. Luckily, they are grouped together by show, and not just in random order.
One thing that would really help, I do not know if this is possible. This would be the ideal solution: if you could create a "show name" folder in the "movies"tab (in itunes/FR)(not to be confused w/ the "movies" in finder) as you can in the "tv shows" tab in itunes.
I've found that because front row has a lack of preferences, and itunes's preferences do not give you enough control; this just turns into a mess.
iLife should be simple, hence the "i" in iLife. LOL
Ethan

Alternate photo library in Front Row?

So, I just bought my first Mac, use Front Row, and am a photographer. Can I browse my Aperture Library through Front Row and just not use iPhoto at all?

Yes, it will duplicate your photos. However, when you export from Aperture you can specify the quality of the jpegs. If you imported raw photos into Aperture the export will be jpeg and much smaller. But, basically yes, it will create duplicates for the iPhoto library.
Aperture is the 'pro' version of iPhoto. You can do everything and more in Aperture that you can in iPhoto - except view the photos in Front Row! As you're a photographer (and I assume purchased Aperture) then I'd start with Aperture and only export into iPhoto those photos that you want to view in FrontRow.

Why a bright green screen before movie plays on Front Row?

Before I reinstalled Leopard the other day all .avi movie files on Front Row would play immediately on selection. Now, for a brief moment, the screen turns bright green before starting a number of the movies. Not all are affected. But those that are come from the same initial bit torrent source.

It seems to be part of the file as it shows when playing direct on QuickTime. Interestingly there's no green screen when the same file is played on another computer. And it didn't happen on this computer before re-install. Also, when the same files are played in QuickTime the QT pane reduces in size to smallest possible in the first few seconds of playing. If I enter full screen, the pane size doesn't reduce.

No "itunes top movie" in my front row

I cannot find the "itunes top movie" option in the movie section of Front row, anyone can give me some suggestion how can i find out that option please?
I already updated the front row and itunes.
ITunes 8.1 and Front Row 2.1.7
Thx for any help!!!!!

Douglas McLaughlin wrote:
The top movies are based on the country of your selection for the iTunes store.
Actually, the top movies/music of Front Row 2 are not related to iTunes at all. I think the store is derived from the IP address initiating the request to Apple's servers.
To fix your problem, open a Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities), paste the following command:
*defaults delete com.apple.frontrow MusicStoreFrontID && killall "Front Row"*
then hit enter. Now, you can relaunch Front Row and you should have your top movies restored.
Also, as Douglas noted, you must have a working internet connection for this content to be available.

Strange numbers show below in movie section in front row

I have front row working on my mac mini, for some strange reason when i goto the movie section of front row I get iTunes Top films/ThTrailers/Movies folder(My movies). But under this I get a whole list of files named with numbers and letters? I'm not sure where these come from.
any ideas
lister

Basically it's before that.. When I first start up frontrow and head to movies i get a list to choose from:
iTunes Top films
ThTrailers
Movies folder(My movies)
012568456888H1H34887HEN9
014153668NMK8H14088710U9
012568456888H1H34887HEN9
014153668NMK8H14088710U9
etc...
Im not sure where these numbers come from and what they are? There's a whole bunch of them.. When I select one in the side part where it displays an image there is a bright white graphic rotating.
I don;t use the iTunes store so my iTunes is probably just set on UK
any ideas

Hiding folders from Front Row

Is there a way to hide files and folders from Front Row?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Which "module" of Front Row are you trying to hid folders from? Music? Pictures? Movies? Unfortunately, Front Row doesn't have a lot of configuration options. Music options come from inside iTunes and Picture options come from inside iPhoto. Are you asking about the Movies folder? That's about the only module you might have some control over. I'm afraid, however, I only know how to add folders to the Movies section, not how to remove folders without simply removing them from your user's Movies folder...
-Doug

HD Movie Rentals on Front Row or just Apple TV

I saw the keynote where you can get HD movie rentals with apple TV. Will this be possible through Front Row on any computer or just with Apple TV?

Does iTunes Rentals work with Front Row, because the movies don't show up in my the movies list in Front Row?

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.

Hiding Movies from Front Row

I have a couple of 'adult' themed .mp4 and they show up in front row regardless of where I move their folder location. The names of the files are generic however a thumbnail of the content shows up and very much gives away what they are.
Is there anyway to place these .mp4 somewhere that is more private?
thanks

Front Row looks in three places for videos: You iTunes, your user's "Movies" folder and in the "Sources" option that looks for other computers with iTunes sharing turned on. If you movies aren't in iTunes, you can move them from your "Movies" folder and put them somewhere like your "Documents" folder. They'll still play with the QuickTime Player application (or other video player utility). If you have QuickTime Pro you could add one last frame that's different and set that as the "Poster frame". Then the preview would be that frame and not something else...
-Doug

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

Parental controls: iTunes library and Front Row

I'm trying to set up parental controls in iTunes on my media centre Mac, which is a PowerMac G4 MDD and so can't run Snow Leopard. I'm using Mac OS X 10.5.8, iTunes 9.2.1 (5) and Front Row 2.1.7 (309).
I'm using a managed account which allows Front Row and iTunes. Within iTunes I have set the parental controls so that only films rated U are allowed. This works for shared content and the iTunes store (as noted in the preferences) but doesn't affect movies in the iTunes library. For example, Alien is rated 15 but still plays in both iTunes and Front Row. Is there any way to restrict this behaviour?
BTW, I've used MetaX to tag movies that I've added to the library myself (i.e. not through the iTunes store) - this works well: other Macs using iTunes see the rating in the shared version and restrict it from being played. However, it can still be played on the host Mac.

Fixed in Snow Leopard

How to Delete Item from Front Row?

Someone sent me a short imovie project and it was automatically downloaded to my "Download" folder. When I opened Front Row, the project name it's right under "Movies" along with "iTunes Top Movies", "Theatrical Trailers" and "Movie Folder".
I then moved the project file from "Download" to another folder created under my "Movie" folder. When I went to Front Row again, the original project was still under the list in Movies, now it's also in "Movies Folder". So basically it's showing up twice in Front Row in different places.
I see that once I play the movie from my Movies folder directly from the folder, it's automatically set to Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Movies. So it's showing up in Front Row via iTunes, and it's also showing in Front Row via my Movies Folder.
I just want to organize Front Row so that I don't have a long list of projects immediately under "Movies" in Front Row. I want these projects to neatly go in one personal movie folder only.
Is there a way to reorganize the items list in Front Row?
How do I delete the item that's originally placed under "Movies" in Front Row?

Assets are organized in various apps - primarily iTunes for most of us.
That said, you may benefit from this series:
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/59317.html

Airport Express Playing Audio From Front Row

Can AE be directed to play the audio through Front Row. Obviously it would be nice when playing Itunes through the Front Row Interface, but I was more interested in getting the Full sound while playing movies through Front Row.

I read on former posts this was a previous options that was removed during a upgrade. That's shameful. I don't understand why such feature would be removed after being available previously. I assume it has to with trying to profit from a migration to apple TV. Something I would never do and never with the uncertainty such another purchase would loose features as this one.

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