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But that it not solely an aesthetic gripe it illuminates a genuine concern for end users CenterStage has been in development since January 2005, and has undergone several interface and feature changes. The previous version’s default skin, by sheer coincidence, used the exact same shade of lime green for its user interface as iTheater did for its own. Lawsuit potential notwithstanding, this is actually an improvement that came with the latest 0.6 release. Large, colorful icons represent each module, and scrolling between them moves the current one to the foreground against a shadowy background. I tested a number of different audio and video media files without incident, and have yet to see the application crash.ĬenterStage resembles Front Row.

Still, what iTheater does it does reliably.

The iTheater Feature Guide advertises some bells and whistles evidently on the roadmap but not yet implemented, including more browsing options for photos and album artwork for music playback. The video manager allows you to browse through the folders in your OS X Videos folder (a folder created by default for every user), and the music manager offers even more flexibility, sorting on artist, album, and genre. The navigation menus are simple to use, laid out in a TiVo-like single column main menu navigable with the keyboard arrow keys. This is labeled a proof-of-concept implementation only location setting is supposed to arrive in the next public release. As of now, for instance, the weather module pulls down forecast information for Beverly Hills (the default location) only. In fact, lack of configuration options is the only serious problem with iTheater. Secondly, the photo viewer launches a slide show of every image in the iPhoto collection, with no options for selecting or excluding images, and no option for browsing the collection, as is possible with music and videos. Since I rarely use iPhoto, I would appreciate some additional source folder options. On the downside, at present iTheater only looks inside the user’s iTunes and iPhoto libraries and Videos folder for content. This makes the application itself smaller, of course, and the developers claim that by linking to external libraries, they can produce a leaner and meaner media player than Apple’s full-blown apps. The music module uses iTunes, the photo module uses iPhoto, and the video module uses QuickTime. ITheater piggybacks on OS X’s built-in “iLife” applications for its media playback. iTheater is available as a universal binary, and requires a G3 or newer processor and OS X 10.3 or later. This version supports DVD playback from disc, video file playback, music browsing and playback, photo slideshows, and weather reports. It is currently at version 0.1.2a, but in spite of its low version number, it already has all of its core features implemented. ITheater, launched in January 2006, is the younger of the two projects.

iTheater and CenterStage add hardware compatibility, additional features, and source code.

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These days, two open source projects are out to compete in the Mac media center arena. But not everyone was content with Apple’s offering after all, Front Row runs only on certain models of Mac hardware, and its features - though slick - are not expandable. Apple introduced Front Row, its integrated music, video, and slideshow media center, in October 2005 to positive reviews.

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