Change iPhoto/FrontRow default music revisited
May 16, '07 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: sullivandm
I have seen a lot of stuff here related to changing the default music (Minuet in G) on iPhoto and Front Row, but to be honest, I have had little success getting them to work. So I have come up with my own hack:
- Open Finder
- Select the Applications folder
- Highlight iPhoto, Control-clik on it and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu.
- Once the Contents folder opens in another window, navigate to Resources » Music folder.
- Delete everything from that folder, and insert your favourite MP3 into the folder. This will become the new default. Alternatively, instead of deleting everything, you can also rename your favourite MP3 to something like 1.mp3 and drop it in there, as it will always default to the first track in the list.
I tried to get this to work with a playlist with no success. If anyone does please manage, please let me know.
[robg adds: "Back in the day," changing the music for a slideshow with the iPhoto Library selected would change the default music for all new playlists, as explained in this hint. However, now that iPhoto creates a special album for each slideshow, this is no longer the case. This recent hint seems to offer a solution for the non-music settings, but it didn't work as described on my test machine. The above solution definitely works, although it's a relatively aggressive way to solve the problem.]
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