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I don't really use the visualizer very often but I'm sure that would be extremely popular.

I think it needs some way to jump around long lists. It takes 20 seconds to get from A to Z in my Artists list. : /  Not sure how that could be done. Especially via remote. Maybe they should be broken up A-Z first?

pottymouth wrote:

I don't really use the visualizer very often but I'm sure that would be extremely popular.

Yeah usually when I run iTunes on my desktop, it's in the background while I'm doing other things. But if I were running it in my living room through my TV, I think the visualizer would be nice...think party here. Other wise I think I'd just run it through my stereo, and keep my television off.

I think it needs some way to jump around long lists. It takes 20 seconds to get from A to Z in my Artists list. : /  Not sure how that could be done. Especially via remote. Maybe they should be broken up A-Z first?

That sounds like a good idea. I actually don't have Frint Row...I believe it's missing a shuffle songs fuction too?

It needs a number of things:

1. The ability to run on a separate monitor. At the moment you can run in mirror but consider my situation and no doubt others. The TV is in the next room, I have run a VGA Cable so now I can see front row in Mirror mode. But I have to get up and go to the next room to put the iMac in Mirror mode making the whole thing pointless. It needs to run on a seperate monitor of your choice. I suggested perhaps having a front row icon in the prefs pane for monitor placement you could simply drag the icon onto which monitor you want it on.

2. Album art next to titles For reasons beyond me the track listing appears half way in which is a big waste of space, especially as frequently tracks are cut off because they don't fit. I however get a lot more from visuals, I think a small icon of the album art next to tracks would be useful.

3. Better management of playlists Like the previous poster I too am frustrated with the speed. I had a cunning plan and set up a smart playlist of artists beginning with A. However in front row that appears as 'A' then songs. What it needs to do is 'A'>Artist>Album>Songs  If this were fixed then playlists would make a heck of a lot more sense in frontrow.

4. iPhoto overides playlist Apparently on the first incarnation of front row there was a bug which meant that iPhoto would show its slides with no music or with what ever music was playing. In the new release all folders and slideshows start out with the annoying greensleeves. In order to fix this you have to goto the iMac and create a whole slide show picking the music you want from iTunes. This is a mess and completely against what front row should be about. It should work: I start front row, pick some nice music then goto the photos and select the latest roll of shots I took that day. What happens now is your chosen track is overidden and replaced with greensleeves!  This is very wrong.

Front row has potential, I was very disappointed to find the remote needs line of sight, I think that was quite a poor move on apples part. A radio one would have been so much better, the fact of the matter is most everyone is not going to be fussed about watching a movie on a 20inch iMac or worse a 17 inch across any distance, and sitting in front of it removes the need for a remote. I am using my MX1000 and Steermouse to use front row in the sitting room, I would have preferred the remote.

Frontrow works as a product on a separate screen, in my opinion on the iMac its virtually pointless and with the new minis having frontrow it is clear apple understand front row will be used on different screens, if they can take the product off the iMac onto a separate monitor more easily the better the product will be.

One a related note, front row crashes frequently I have pages and pages of reports in console.

I would like to see Front Row support browsing other directories, including network shares for media.  Very few people with terrabytes of video storage are going to be keeping that video stored locally on a Mac Mini's hard drive.  And I can't imagine anyone would be using iTunes to manage such storage.

I currently have over 1TB of video stored on a server, so I have to just fire up either Quicktime for VLC to play them.