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10.5: Quit iTunes to see file info changes in Front Row
Authored by: Stormchild on Mar 12, '08 09:06:18AM

Front Row always was an application. Anything you can do on your computer is an application. If you're talking about the fact that there's now an icon for Front Row, all that does is give you another way to invoke Front Row. If you get info on that "application", you'll see it's only about 376 KB, which is obviously too small to contain any of the actual functional code. All it is is a shortcut. It's there mainly for people using it on systems that didn't ship with an Apple Remote. You'll notice there are also "applications" for Spaces and Exposé, but again, these are just a convenience. Exposé doesn't work any differently than it did before; the icon just gives you another way to invoke it.

The only reason I can imagine needing to quit iTunes for changes to show up in other programs is if they were reading the iTunes Music Library file instead of simply querying iTunes directly, but it wouldn't make any sense to do that, because iTunes has always made it very easy for other applications to access its database. Even simple AppleScripts can easily get the current list of playlists and songs.

So unless Apple did something really dumb when developing Front Row 2.0, there shouldn't be any need to quit and relaunch iTunes for changes to show up in Front Row. Try returning to the top-level menu in Front Row and going back into Music.



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10.5: Quit iTunes to see file info changes in Front Row
Authored by: conigs on Mar 12, '08 10:12:54AM

I believe what the original post was referring to is that under Leopard, Front Row now plays music from the iTunes library natively, whereas under Tiger, Front Row simply controlled iTunes (if you started to play music in Front Row, iTunes would actually open in the background).



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