CHADCN  The biggest reasons I use Plex over Front Row are:

-Plex can play many more types of files than Front Row

-It is much more customizable (skins, etc)

-It is being developed quite quickly, so you see improvements much more quickly.

-It supports my universal remote, so I don't have to use the small Apple Remote

There are many more, but these four are the biggest for me  
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SCIFI  … and I am unable to use this app because it is Leopard–only.

C’mon developers, stop leaving us out in the cold like this. It is not our fault we cannot use Leopard — blame Apple for that decision (mostly).  
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CJC1959AU  xbmc.org and read the online manual.

it's not difficult.  
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GRAPHIC_INNOVATIONS  I have to agree with the last commenter - The developer did not 'write' this software, he has simply ported it. It has been around for years on the xbox, and going to the project's main page for pertinent information would be logical. That aside, I found the software to be quite intuitive... Every button performed the expected action, and adding external server sources was as easy as typing in their addresses... So what was it you didn't understand?  
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NOTAFOOL  Well I am delighted that you guys think it is wonderful software !! I have just downloaded the very latest version and simply cannot make head or tail of how to navigate it. When I use software I expect to find adequate "HELP" documentation available within the program itself. Preferably context-sensitive. Yes - I know that I shall be accused of being computer illiterate, but am most definitely not. I have tried this software many many times, but to my way of thinking it is totally confusing and totally counter-intuitive. If you check back, you will see that I am FAR from being the only one to complain of a total lack of easily comprehensible instructions and of its completely counter-intuitive interface. I would LOVE to be able to agree that it is fantastic software, but if I can't fathom out at all how to interact with it, how am I ever going to be in a position to do so ? To me it is utterly irrelevant whether it is a "port" of some other designer's creation or not. I'd like to have clear instructions on how to use IT. Not be referred off to instructions relevant to some other software from which it is apparently derived.  
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GRAPHIC_INNOVATIONS  Ah ok, so you went to the home page, read the manual and are still lost? Well, I guess there is no helping you. For me, typing in addresses with my keyboard is trivial. This version behaves exactly as the game console version, not sure what to tell you.  
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NOTAFOOL  1. The Manual does NOT relate to this current Plex application, but to an older and rather different application. The current Plex interface is quite different and hard to follow.The screenshots in the Manual now differ significantly from what one sees on one's monitor when using Plex and the Manual is exceptionally lengthy, poorly organized and confusing.

2. I have never been interested in the X-Box or games, so it is not in the least helpful, or of any interest to me, to learn that Plex is the same as the X-Box console.

3. I came to Plex because it was advertised as a Multimedia Center and I am interested in multimedia. Why do you automatically assume that everyone who wants to use Plex is necessarily an experienced X-Box user ?

4. Why shouldn't there be a PROPER Manual specifically covering this specific application ?

5. And in answer to the implied insult in your posting, may I state that I had absolutely no difficulty in typing in the correct address for the Manua to which you referred me, and no difficulty in finding it. I definitely DID, however, find it unhelpful in guiding me around Plex. If there is no helping me, then so be it. But there is really no need to be insulting about it. Just because you are plainly a computer genius and wizard does not mean that everyone else is.  
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CJC1959AU  And I would hope that you would give the developers a little bit of slack considering Plex is something you aren't even paying any money for.

Have you even donated to the porting crew?

Maybe if documentation is so important to you, then you should offer your services to the porting crew to write documentation and online help?

or do you just want to whinge?

Well, now that you are so annoyed with the poor Plex developers who are getting nothing for what they are doing other than satisfaction and the odd donation, are you going to actually put your hand in your pocket and purchase software that better fits your needs?

I didn't think so!  
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NOTAFOOL  You are a complete and utter idiot it seems. And you appear to have major problems in your ability to even begin to comprehend what I am saying.I still have not ben able to get this application to work at all for me. Because I am utterly unable to get this software to work for me, I have at this stage no idea whether the software is good or bad. I am not a fool like you, and shall not, therefore, be paying money over to anyone until I have got it working satisfactorily and am satisfied that it is worth paying for. Once I am so satisfied I shall pay for and/or donate to its support. Do you know any folk who pay for software that (a) they can't get to work and (b) cannot even evaluate ? Jeeeez you are a dope. And your suggestion that I contribute to the project by writing documentation for Plex only demonstrates just how mind-numbingly stupid you must be. At present I have not managed to get it to work at all.  
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CJC1959AU  Oooooo gees, we are very bitchy aren't we?

At no time have I made any personal comments or attacks at all towards you and yet you continue to attack me and others on a personal level. Not a good way to get people to help you.

How to setup a Mac program? Open the dmg/zip file and drop the item into your Applications folder. Double click on the icon and follow what is on the screen by pressing a few buttons on your mouse, keyboard or Apple Remote and see what happens.

I have at no time read any documentation for Plex or OSXBMC (what it was called previously). I just did exactly the above and went from there. I wonder what happens when I press this button? Oh, so that's what happens.

Most of the skins are quite intuitive. Clicking on "Change My Settings" takes you to the configuration screens. Clicking on "Watch My Movies" takes you to your Movies folder. Clicking on "Listen To Music" takes you to your Music folder (but not unfortunately your iTunes folder). Clicking on "View My Pictures" takes you to your Pictures folder.

Rather than getting all high and mighty and insulting everyone personally, why don't you try starting the program and pressing the arrow keys/enter a few times? I think you can also use your mouse by default too. You can also use an Apple Remote but I think that has to be turned on in one of the settings. You should be able to find it under Settings -> Remote (I think).

You can also load up other skins and use them. Some of the skins are much simpler and easier to use than the current default skin. Look on the OSXBMC forums and you will find information about how to make any skin available for use.

You can enable the mouse through the settings, but some think that typically it's better to use the keyboard. The default keys are as follows :

- navigate

- scroll up and down

- select

- previous menu

- go up back (or up) a directory

- pause

- Skip Next

- Skip Previous

- Full Screen

= Screen Shot

- Volume Down

- Volume Up

<0 - 9> - 0 through 9

p - Play

f - Fast Forward

r - Rewind

x - Stop

m - Player controls

s - Shutdown menu

i - Info

q - Queue

Is there heaps of stuff about Plex that I don't know yet? Quite possibly, I don't claim to be any expert on Plex. I just click on buttons and see what happens.

And if I want to do something specific and I don't know how, I play around a bit and then I usually go to the OSXBMC forums or I do a Google search. I go looking for my answer.

Is Plex perfect? Far from it, I never claimed it was. Is it simple and easy to use? I have found that mostly it is. Would it be easier if someone collected all the accumulated information and knowledge in one place and distributed it? Quite possibly

For now, I'll just keep playing and see what happens when I click buttons. For a FREE program that works pretty well the majority of the time, I find exploration and learning a small price to pay!

And I don't have to insult anyone anywhere along the way to do it!  
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