10.7: Make Front Row work with iTunes 10.4

Sep 30, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: lowbatteries

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:

This basically tricks Front Row into thinking it's connecting to another computer's iTunes library over the network, using the standard iTunes sharing.

[crarko adds: This took a bit of time to setup, but I did get it working as described eventually. A clever hack.]

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