Comments on: Boxee mini review

By: Samuel

Samuel — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:00:44 +0000

I personally hate those programs that must have iTunes integration. I prefer folder hierarchy, since this way it ensures all my media is not tied to one platform (iTunes, iPhoto, all on mac) – nothing wrong with mac, I have a macbook pro and two mac minis, however I dont like to have my files and programs tied down, always good to be able to switch. It would be great if in addition it could get iTunes, iPhoto, etc… but never replace the folder hierarchy.

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:44:49 +0000

Nice but major memory leaks. Used it for 10 min, quit and had to reboot an hour later.

Alpha for sure but lots of potential.

By: Peter Pann

Peter Pann — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:12:54 +0000

PLEX only supports Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), while XBMC and Boxee supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) as well, which is a requirement to get it working on an AppleTV.

Add that to the fact that PLEX developers said that they will never port or support PLEX on an AppleTV, however the XBMC and Boxee developers have said that they want to see XBMC and Boxee on as many platforms as possible.

By: tropic10

tropic10 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:12:27 +0000

You can always try Plex which is the other XBMC fork. It’s available now at http://www.osxbmc.com. It lacks Boxee’s social networking features but the dev team is making rapid progress and the end result is very impressive.

By: tim C

tim C — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:47:38 +0000

i agree that the interface doesn’t blow me away either, but the lack of features in the current apple tv platform would be enough to make me at least try boxee.

hopefully there will be something i can download and try for myself soon….

-tim

By: Steve K.

Steve K. — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:26:19 +0000

While Boxee may work well, and does have it’s own sense of design, it doesn’t in the least resemble anything Apple would do. Just look at it. Probably one of the most un-Apple-like looking screens I have ever seen.

By: Boxee newbie, XBMC oldie

Boxee newbie, XBMC oldie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:05:01 +0000

Hope some hacker out ther make Boxee run natively on the AppleTV soon.

You did know that Boxee is “XBMC-like” because it is based on the XBMC source code, right? So technically speaking they did not design Boxee from the ground up, they took XBMC then added a very advanced social network layer on top of it, some additonal features and a new layout theme.

Boxee already support IMDb poster downloads (just like XBMC), and folder hierarchy is not the only way to browse browse for media on the local computer in it, Boxee will scan all your media into a database which you then can filter and search in many different ways, it is very similar to iTunes that way.

As for it choosing the movie “November” for a file called “November 2002″, well if you go to the website http://www.imdb.com and search for “November 2002″ then you will understand why it does not pick the right one by itself, you can however go in and change any specific movie after the initial scan to do a manual loopup and then you get to pick which exact movie you mean yourself.

You can of course disable Boxee taking over FrontRow in the Boxee settings.

In any case, as Boxee is just alpha and not beta you should expect bugs and issues.