rifsuda01: 10.7: Make Front Row work with iTunes 10.4

Saturday, 1 October 2011

10.7: Make Front Row work with iTunes 10.4

Sadly, Apple's decided to not include the popular Front Row with OS X Lion.

When Lion was released, it was found that you could install Front Row on Lion and it worked fine. That is, until Apple released iTunes 10.4, which changed the iTunes library format, so even if you installed Front Row, it couldn't see your iTunes content.

Here is how you can get Front Row working on Lion with the latest iTunes:

Install Front Row Enabler for Lion -- you can find a package installation at the very bottom of this link, under Attachments. You'll need to reboot after installing.
Make sure 'Share my library on my local network' is turned on in iTunes preferences.
To try this out once, run dns-sd as described in this post, using the command: ...