Media Sharing Xbox 360

PiKe · 22 Oct 2007 at 21:05

Trying to get my music accessible on my 360 from my PC but the 360 cannot see it, the 360 see's the PC and the I've allowed the 360 to access my media on the PC, but when I go into the music section it shows no albums/artists/songs, but shows an empty playlist (which isnt empty of the PC). Theres no firewalls active and UPnP is on, on the router.

Any suggestions?

TerryWogan · 23 Oct 2007 at 02:49

Are you sharing your media with Media Player 11 or one of the other recommended programs?

Davey_Pitch · 23 Oct 2007 at 02:50

I highly recommend TVersity for all your music sharing needs - http://tversity.com/home - there's guides on how to use it and it works a treat

PiKe · 23 Oct 2007 at 09:08

I'm using WMP11.

Kipper67 · 23 Oct 2007 at 11:59

and the stuff you want to stream is in your WMP library or the folder that it's all in is set up to be shared in WMP?

PiKe · 23 Oct 2007 at 12:03

Yep, theres lots of stuff listed in the WMP11 library on the PC, but nothing (other than that playlist containing nothing) shows up, I created another blank playlist and that showed up aswell but no actual music files :confused:

Kipper67 · 23 Oct 2007 at 12:47

Then try Davey's suggestion - I had problems with only half my files showing up using WMP sharing and ended up having to use TVersity as well for the odd times I wanted to stream stuff.

If you do give TVersity a try, best to disable sharing in WMP though rather than having both going at the same time.

ic1male · 23 Oct 2007 at 12:57

Try clearing out your shared folders so they're blank and then only copying WMV/WMA/MP3 files there. I found if I had a mixed folder of things like AVIs and MPGs, it mucked the whole sharing up.

PiKe · 23 Oct 2007 at 13:16

When you say sharing folders do you mean the monitored ones? My WMP11 library is populated from files all over the hard drive.

ic1male · 23 Oct 2007 at 15:02

Not sure - I tended to stick everything in "My Videos", "My Music", etc. with subfolders off that - those folders are monitored by default by WMP11.

londonbairn · 23 Oct 2007 at 16:26

Worked out of the box for me on Vista, anything I add goes on the Xbox instantly. My library is >50,000 files as well!