10.5 Front Row - No Art for Remote Source

I left feedback under OS X, the Applications/Utilities.

On the subject of feedback, just wondered if anyone had received anything back from Apple since leaving their feedback? I know I've not and there's been no update to fix this problem during the year and a half this post has been running. To add to it I've had a post removed when I've been a little too critical of Apple on this particular issue. Anyone else with anything back from Apple? Or is it time to give up?

Snow Leopard 10a411

It is still broken

there is a screen here

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=642366&st=730

This is still a Problem !! - I am Sad - I have even had the opportunity to test it with 10.6

still no ART on networked devices !! - Ubuntu linux shows the ART on the Movie file in the finder for pete sake !! get this sorted !!!
Come on Apple - I buy movies from the iTunes store and TVshows - i have an iMac with a bay of TB drives connected to it - all my Entreatment resides on it - and i network to it VIA an Apple AIRPORT -
with my Mac MINI !!! errrr---- connected to my TV in the living room - don't you think i should get to see the ART on my movie files - this is getting ridiculous I am a loyal APPLE fanatic - this is my one request - please for the love of having a computer in my Living room - make this work =)

OS X 10.5.8 and iTunes 8.2.1, and still not fixed. When are they going to do something about this....

I'm still amazed that his has not been fixed. Especially considering that they are just about to roll out a new OS I would hope that Apple QA would actually test frontrow, find the bugs and squash them.

In my opinion this is just sad; and makes me loose faith in apple.

I'm with you Pittronics.

I have two AppleTVs an iMac and MacBook Air and don't quite see why Apple punish those loyal enough to buy Macs by forcing them to buy AppleTVs when they're not necessarily the most appropriate device!

Is Apple saying that if a loyal consumer has a Mac Mini in the Lounge and an iMac in the Study then they also need an AppleTV in the Study to view their content in a reasonable way?

Or are they saying that despite having spent a fair deal of money on a MacBook I cannot then use that as a portable media player?

I'll mention two dates here and let you all be the judge as to whether this is going to be fixed any time soon.
AppleTV release: Mar '07
OS X Leopard (with 'revised' Front Row) release: Oct '07

I love Apple but I wish they were a little more open so we didn't have to believe in conspiracy theories like the above.

Apple please please please make us all happy. Answer the people who've posted feedback

I too just discovered no album artwork when I use a Source computer's music streaming to my laptop from which I control Front Row. Now here's something weird and perhaps useful to someone?

I use You Control which has an iTunes module. It puts a large graphic of album art with text under it on the desktop screen of your Mac as iTunes is playing music and changing songs. I love it.

I just used Front Row to play music from the source computer. No artwork. But now as I go into the other room where the source computer is and play a song directly from iTunes, there is no graphic artwork on the You Control overlay either. Just the text, no picture! Every album shows artwork in the lower left corner, but none display once Front Row has got at the source library. I did this experiment twice.

If I quit iTunes and the You Control Engine and restart them, the artwork returns in the overlay as expected.

This is strange.

We're wasting our time hoping for a response from Apple. The only hope we've got is the introduction of Windows 7 which will hopefully be so good it will make people realise that there is life outside of Mac OS X. I have 12 Macs and have been a long-time lover as well as critic of this kind of behaviour, but I genuinely do believe that when Windows 7 starts to make little programs that do exactly what the customers want (if they don't already?) - ie to show the image preview of remotely accessed movies, or ability to play sound through Airport Express/Front Row like we used to - people will switch back to Windows machines. Only then will Apple listen and stop ignoring loyal customers.
Sad, but true I'm afraid. Roll on 7!

No need for that type of crazy talk Chris! Just start using Plex instead, most people are ditching Front Row for Plex or XBMC now anyway due to the many failings of Front Row. Daren't say what they all are in case my post gets taken off here again, just look at the forum posts with the most replies and all will become clear.

www.plexapp.com

Me too. As for machines/software, all running the most recent updates with respectively. Problem seen on Leopard and Snow Leopard connects. To a MBP running Snow and Front Row.

Kurt

So glad I found this thread, I was about to buy a new mac mini for my living room. I won't bother now. I'll continue using my laptop for occasional use and find some alternative to front row. Apple just sold one less computer.

Yes!

But they might have sold one more AppleTV!

Where's the logic in that?

Has anybody tried copying the Album Artwork folder in the iTunes folder on the host computer to the same location on the client machine? It's chock full of tons of album artwork data that both machines may need.

I just did this, and using just iTunes on the client (it only has 10.4, and no Front Row - Mac Mini G4), and the album artwork displays fine. Again, no Front Row, so I don't know if this will work or not.

I can try 2 machines later, in the host/client setup, to confirm if Front Row will work or not.

Jeff

Tried a Snow Leopard host, and a Leopard client, and the artwork doesn't work. I copied the Album artwork on the SL machine onto a USB flash drive, then moved it over to the Leopard machine and copied the same folder into the iTunes folder. Doesn't work.

Jeff