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[HELP ON] Xbox 360 Media Streaming: My Sanity Under Siege
AlejandroDaJ
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I'm on a Windows XP Pro computer with Windows Media Player 11 but none of that other fancy shmancy stuff like Windows Media Center or the WMC Extender.
Aaaaaaaaand I'm trying to stream MP3s onto my 360.
It should seem like a fucking no-brainer. Because I'm able to think outside the box inhabited by most people who buy their PCs at Walmart, I put all my MP3s in C:\MP3s\ and just let iTunes look there for my library. 'Kay, no problem.
But my 360 seems unable or unwilling to find that folder. I tried dragging and dropping individual MP3s into the Windows Media Player library. Didn't work. I tried doing that and saving it under a specific playlist. The name of the playlist itself showed up on the 360, but no music. I tried dragging and dropping the entire c:\MP3s\ folder into the Library section of WMP, which nicely arranged all my mp3s by artist and album art - very pretty - but again, the 360 couldn't see it.
Suspicious of this bullshit and the fact that there were only two conspicuous Beethoven songs that my 360 could see, I dropped some of my MP3s into the \My Documents\My Music\ folder that Microsoft loves so much. Sure enough, those MP3s show up on the 360.
Please please please tell me that I can somehow make the 360 see my C:\MP3s\ folder without petulantly copying its entire contents to the \My Music\ folder (and then having to re-sync everything in iTunes). Please tell me I'm missing something simple. Or did MS purposefully disable this obvious feature just to make me upgrade to Vista with WMC?
Aaaaaaaaand I'm trying to stream MP3s onto my 360.
It should seem like a fucking no-brainer. Because I'm able to think outside the box inhabited by most people who buy their PCs at Walmart, I put all my MP3s in C:\MP3s\ and just let iTunes look there for my library. 'Kay, no problem.
But my 360 seems unable or unwilling to find that folder. I tried dragging and dropping individual MP3s into the Windows Media Player library. Didn't work. I tried doing that and saving it under a specific playlist. The name of the playlist itself showed up on the 360, but no music. I tried dragging and dropping the entire c:\MP3s\ folder into the Library section of WMP, which nicely arranged all my mp3s by artist and album art - very pretty - but again, the 360 couldn't see it.
Suspicious of this bullshit and the fact that there were only two conspicuous Beethoven songs that my 360 could see, I dropped some of my MP3s into the \My Documents\My Music\ folder that Microsoft loves so much. Sure enough, those MP3s show up on the 360.
Please please please tell me that I can somehow make the 360 see my C:\MP3s\ folder without petulantly copying its entire contents to the \My Music\ folder (and then having to re-sync everything in iTunes). Please tell me I'm missing something simple. Or did MS purposefully disable this obvious feature just to make me upgrade to Vista with WMC?
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I know it's another program, but when my computer did this to me, downloading the Zune software made it all better.
It like, shows another computer with the same name, but with the "Z" symbol next to it, and it should be fine.
Took fuck all long for it to add in. But by the next morning it was all in there and streaming.
Bingo! Worked instantly. Thanks a bunch! :P