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Today, Apple has released an update to FrontRow, its media browsing application that ships with the new iMacs. According to Apple, "The Front Row Update delivers overall improved reliability and
compatibility for browsing music, photos, and videos on your iMac." If you're one of those lucky souls with a new iMac G5, grab this 4MB update via Software Update or the web.Reply in the Mail.app with a specific quote.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Radu Dutzan said 9:43PM on 11-17-2005
I just hope it doesn't break support for "other" systems.
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Radu Dutzan said 10:27PM on 11-17-2005
I installed it on my iMac G4 (yes, gee four) with Pacifist (http://www.charlessoft.com/), since the installer requires an iMac G5 with built-in iSight, I installed everything included on the package, an update to DVD Player, BezelServices.framework, BezelServices.loginPlugin and Front Row.app. It doesn't work. It bounces once and sometimes twice on the dock and it stops without launching, even after restarting. So, of course I kept a backup of the old version and replaced the new one on CoreServices and everything is fine now. It could feel a little bit more smooth now, but that could just be me.
Conclusion: if you're not on an iMac G5, don't install.
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LD said 12:59AM on 11-18-2005
Ditto. I have a Mac Mini and the Front Row.app doesn't work. I replaced with the original version and it works fine. This "update" is clearly meant to prevent use on other systems rather than be a true update.
That's too bad, Apple, people seemed to like this app. Why would they limit it to specific models when it clearly can run fine on other models?
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PQ said 4:25AM on 11-18-2005
It runs great on my PowerBook :-)
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gisli said 4:39AM on 11-18-2005
Im hopeing that this update will resolve the problem with Video Trailers as it is freezing up randomly on my machine. ( New iMac G5 )
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mdavey said 5:52AM on 11-18-2005
The official FrontRow binaries (both the original and this update) check for presence of the Infrared firmware and quit if it isn't present. Hopefully JacksonBrown will release an updated version for unsupported machines, based on 1.0.1.
In the meantime, http://www.macminicenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=Front_Row_101:How-To describes how to apply 1.0.1 to get the fixes for the DVD Player.
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Alasdair Allan said 7:27AM on 11-18-2005
Interestingly, I actually have a new iMac G5 but the update won't install on my machine. Interesting, huh?
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Anunnaki said 11:09AM on 11-18-2005
1) Show Package Contents
2) Open the .dist file with SubEthaEdit or some other nice Editor (*g*)
3) locate the function "installationCheck()"
4) replace it so it just returns true anyways
function installationCheck()
{
return true;
}
5) save
6) install
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Samuel Beckett said 6:07AM on 11-20-2005
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19947
just one more thing: get it quickly. =)
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