Comments on: Breathe new life into OS X Front Row

By: Jayde

Jayde — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:32:15 +0000

Matt: you are supper star, it worked and I hope many others might have similar issue and will follow your instructions making things right.
My best wishes and kind regards.
Jayde

By: Moo

Moo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:38:40 +0000

Hi Jayde.

Let’s say that your Movies are in a folder called “Monkeys” sitting in a USB drive. Create an alias of that Monkeys folder, and then move that alias (“Monkeys alias”) to your Movies folder. (“Jayde” > “Movies”).

Now start Front Row. Select “Movies” > “Movies Folder” (above the line) > “Monkeys alias”.

There’s your movies!

You’d need to copy the “Monkeys alias” to Pictures, Music etc if you have media from those categories in the same USB folder, or alternatively go through the process again if the different media are in different folders.

Regards

Matt

By: Jayde

Jayde — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:29:16 +0000

Moo, “Thank you for your prompt reply and kind assistance”.
In fact I would like to know how to access or see the USB or wireless drive with in the front row…
I came across a youtube video clip showing other external drives but unfortunately did not explained it well for a newbie.
I will highly appreciate if some one explain step by step how to add or access external drive within the front row.Thank you for your kind assistance and support.Jayde

By: Moo

Moo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:13:45 +0000

Hi Jayde

The sources refers to the name of the Mac running iTunes. i.e. If your Mac named “study” runs the iTunes library on the Time Capsule, then you need to have iTunes launched on that Mac, and then it will appear on other Macs as “study” under sources.

Sorry – Don’t understand your alias situation

By: Jayde

Jayde — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:49:06 +0000

Thanks for all the help and tips I have quarries about the “Movies” folder…
N0.1
I use my time capsule 1GB as external wireless drive for media purposes and I can’t find in front row “sources” please correct me if I’m wrong “sources” means other volume(s) or wireless sources, How to see other drive or volumes in front row?
No.2
I understand making Alias in “Movies” folder solves the issue but when I move the Movies alias folder int to Time Capsule and add movies in to my TC Movies folder and found the same movies just copped in to my Imac Movies Folder (just mirrored) … I believe there is no point having movies duplicated and consume the drive space twice, Please help me where I’m going wrong to solve my issue. you great help will be highly appreciated.Best wishes to all, Jayde

By: Thomas Hodges

Thomas Hodges — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:58:02 +0000

Hi,

I use the alias fix in my movies folder, pointing to my iTunes folder, which is on an external disc. This all works fine, but for some reason I’m still seeing the original old list of movies when I open Frontrow, in addition to the alias links. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the old movies list ?

Thanks in anticipation,

Thomas.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:07:54 +0000

Just to say thanks so much for putting this guide up, I was floundering as to how to get Front Row to see the films on an external hard drive connected to the mac mini – gotta love a two-minute fix!

By: kira

kira — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:37:01 +0000

Front Row is free- comes with the mac bundle. It’s just a software interface/directory that makes it easier to go through your computer media files from your couch… the media on front row is provided by either your itunes purchases or CD/DVD rips.

By: Tony Pham

Tony Pham — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:59:58 +0000

I just bought an iMac, and used Front Row. I watched their movies and wondered, is Front Row free? Can someone help me answer this question? Is Front Row Movies, TV episodes, and music free?

Thanks.

By: Moo

Moo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:24:16 +0000

From iTunes, you need to right click on the files, and select the “Get Info” option. Once there, you can set the files to be the same Show & Season number, which will force them into a group.