Fixing the Music Store country settings in Front Row

- by in Apple, How-To, Software

Front Row decided to show me Germany’s “Top-Titel” and “Top Musikvideos” under the Music menu. Somehow my Front Row preferences got out of sync with my iTunes Music Store country settings. Deleting Front Row’s preferences and caches didn’t work; that only started a roulette game in which Front Row randomly sent me to another country. I got Japan next. Fun.

The solution is to edit Front Row’s preferences. Open this file in Property List Editor:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.frontrow.plist
  1. Expand the Root element and find the MusicStoreFrontID key.
  2. Set the value to 143441, which is the ID for the US store.
  3. Save and close.

Front Row will see the change on the next launch.