Front row menus are now the same as AppleTV, much better.
John
> Front row menus are now the same as AppleTV, much better.
Could I ask a favour? What exactly *are* the menus? I've tried looking
on YouTube and found some detail, but not much. What I have found is:
Movies >
iTunes Top Movies -->
(??? what's in here?)
Theatrical Trailers -->
(list of trailers from Apple servers)
Movies folder >
(contents of ~/Movies)
TV Shows >
(??? TV shows downloaded from iTunes?)
Music >
iTunes Top Songs -->
(??? Is this something from the iTunes Store?)
iTunes Top Music Videos -->
(??? Is this something from the iTunes Store?)
Shuffle Songs ><
(??? A toggle, I guess? Does it let you shuffle by album?)
Music Videos >
Playlists >
Artists >
[etc]
Podcasts >
(??? How is this organised? Does it have the 'unlistened' dot, and
does that dot vanish if you just listen to ten seconds of the podcast?
Does it show video podcasts in here?)
Photos >
(??? The usual photo menus, I guess)
What's the difference between the > indicator and the --> indicator?
Can you hack around with the menu names like in the old Front Row? You
can edit detail in
/System/Library/CoreServices/Front
Row.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings
Can you do this in the new Front Row (I'm guessing it will be
/Applications/Front Row.app/etcetc)?
Ta,
-zoara-

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John Carrana - 31 Oct 2007 13:37 GMT
Could I ask a favour? What exactly *are* the menus? I've tried looking
on YouTube and found some detail, but not much. What I have found is:
Movies >
iTunes Top Movies -->
(??? what's in here?)
Theatrical Trailers -->
(list of trailers from Apple servers)
Movies folder >
(contents of ~/Movies)
TV Shows >
(??? TV shows downloaded from iTunes?)
Music >
iTunes Top Songs -->
(??? Is this something from the iTunes Store?)
iTunes Top Music Videos -->
(??? Is this something from the iTunes Store?)
Shuffle Songs ><
(??? A toggle, I guess? Does it let you shuffle by album?)
Music Videos >
Playlists >
Artists >
[etc]
Podcasts >
(??? How is this organised? Does it have the 'unlistened' dot, and
does that dot vanish if you just listen to ten seconds of the podcast?
Does it show video podcasts in here?)
Photos >
(??? The usual photo menus, I guess)
What's the difference between the > indicator and the --> indicator?
Can you hack around with the menu names like in the old Front Row? You
can edit detail in
/System/Library/CoreServices/Front
Row.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings
Can you do this in the new Front Row (I'm guessing it will be
/Applications/Front Row.app/etcetc)?
Ta,
It's like I said, take a look at front row, it's the same.
John
zoara - 31 Oct 2007 15:45 GMT
> It's like I said, take a look at front row, it's the same.
Where would I find something that shows/explains the menus on this,
please?
I thought Apple TV's Front Row had YouTube, which Leopard's Front Row
doesn't, and I'd be surprised is Apple TV has Leopard's "Movie folder"
entry. Are they the only differences?
-z-

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No 3G. Fewer megapixels than an N95. Lame.
John Carrana - 31 Oct 2007 17:31 GMT
I thought Apple TV's Front Row had YouTube, which Leopard's Front Row
doesn't, and I'd be surprised is Apple TV has Leopard's "Movie folder"
entry. Are they the only differences?
-z-
Yes, your right, front row doesn't have YouTube, and AppleTV doesn't have
the movie menu.
Amending my original post to almost the same, sorry.
John