Applke has released Front Row 1.0.1 which delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for browsing music, photos, and videos on your iMac.
More info and link to standalone installer (4MB) here.
Learn more about Front Row here.
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Will it still work on my iBook?
There appears to be no further info available about the improvements included in the new version. Apple usually provides a list, but not this time.
interesting, does this make if avaliable to everyone? or break the ones that people downloaded and installed….
gotta be one or the other
It’s probably just a “fix” to tie it to where it will only work on iMac G5s (for now anyway).
I sure hope one of the improvements is to move the speed of finding songs from “glacial” to something a bit snappier… like “turtlesque.”
Seriously, it’s a really nice idea and cool eye candy, but with a music library of over 16,000 (I haven’t tried it with a smaller selection) it literally takes 30 or 45 seconds from the time I select a track to the time it starts playing sometimes.
It’s so bad that I don’t want to actually demo it for friends, and let’s face it, a 20″ iMac with Front Row is the perfect demo to Wow’em with.
It apparently does lock it to G5 iMac w/ iSight because I just tried it on my mini and the installer complains about it not being the correct machine. If only I had a nanobook to try it on…
Does it only work for new iMacs on Tiger?
Yup, it breaks the hacked version. I used Pacifist to extract the files and now it won’t launch at all.
Reverting back to Version 1.0, Front Row is working on my Dual G5 with 30″ Display.
Works on my Dual 2.0Ghz Powermac using Pacifist to avoid the iMac remote check… See VersionTracker comments for further info…
i’ve downloaded and installed both. How do I know what files not to extract? And do I simply extract them all to a folder on my desktop?
Instead of screwing around with making sure FR only runs on iMac/G5, Apple should spend their valuable engineering resources doing real important shit. We all know eventuallly it will be included free in all new Macs and available in iLife ’06.
I mean, come on guys, where’s the dual core PowerBooks? Where’s iWork v2.0? Where’s the Mac Mini/PVR? etc., etc.
Just use Pacifist’s ‘install’ option, opt to ‘replace’ files if asked… that’s it! No messing!
Does it work on PCs?
MW=then. Like then it does not suck.
No, it doesnt work on PC’s and never will.
what’s “Applke”?
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