MP3 on Xbox 360

ic1male · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:33

Right, I know the only way to get MP3s onto the 360 (by normal means) is to rip them from a CD directly.

Once you've done that, can you edit the MP3 IDs in order to get the track names, artist and album right? The CDs I'll be ripping will be my own homemade mixed ones rather than retail ones.

Paranoid_Robot · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:39

ic1male said:
The CDs I'll be ripping will be my own homemade mixed ones rather than retail ones.

huh?

Yes, you can edit the artist, album and track name.

Manlove is my forte · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:39

Why not stream them from your PC?

Shamikebab · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:40

yes you can, i've ripped several copied cd's and edited them fine.

ic1male · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:44

Paranoid_Robot said:
huh?

Cheeky! It doesn't mean I've downloaded them illegally. I've burnt them from iTunes.

Kronologic said:
Why not stream them from your PC?

Well, it's a laptop. I don't want to leave it running all the time just when I fancy putting some music on. Besides, I have to fill up this new 120GB hard drive somehow...

Manlove is my forte · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:47

Not got an Ipod or a usb based MP3 player?

ic1male · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:54

A Sony one which will not work, I'm sure!

I suppose I could plug in my external HDD with some music on but will have to format it all again back to FAT32.

Shamikebab · 20 Aug 2007 at 15:56

the sony one might work, dont see why not if its usb, pretty sure MS aren't that bad :confused:

Manlove is my forte · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:24

Shamikebab said:
the sony one might work, dont see why not if its usb, pretty sure MS aren't that bad

It might not work as Sony have a habit of encoding things to ATRAC. I have a sony one at home at the moment (its a friends but she wants the missus to put some music on it for her (her music btw))

So I might give it a bash if I have a minute. You can use the sony ones as a normal storage medium iirc, so you could put the tracks you want on that and stick it in.

Alternatively do you have a fat partitioned usb HDD?

ic1male · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:27

I do have a drive but it's in NTFS at the moment. I don't think there are filesizes of 4GB+ on it, so I can always copy the contents to the PC, wipe it and then copy things back again.

Manlove is my forte · 20 Aug 2007 at 16:37

ic1male said:
I do have a drive but it's in NTFS at the moment. I don't think there are filesizes of 4GB+ on it, so I can always copy the contents to the PC, wipe it and then copy things back again.

32GB partition limit too. (unless you use a 3rd party app to do the partition/format)

Kreeeee · 20 Aug 2007 at 17:21

I just bung my music onto a 2GB USB memory stick.

Shamikebab · 20 Aug 2007 at 17:28

I use tversity to stream my music.

ic1male · 20 Aug 2007 at 17:40

Kronologic said:
32GB partition limit too. (unless you use a 3rd party app to do the partition/format)

The Western Digital software will take care of that. A flash drive is out of the question - I've got about 36GB of music data. Cripes. Imagine how long it would take to burn those to CD and then rip again. External HDD it will have to be.

Manlove is my forte · 20 Aug 2007 at 19:37

ic1male said:
The Western Digital software will take care of that. A flash drive is out of the question - I've got about 36GB of music data. Cripes. Imagine how long it would take to burn those to CD and then rip again. External HDD it will have to be.

Just remember that FAT32 files systems' performance degrades significantly the larger the partition size. Which is why MS limited their formatting tools to 32GB.

So it might be "better" to have a couple of partitions on the drive (no idea if the 360 can read multiple partitions though)

ic1male · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:08

To be honest, I don't think the concerns about FAT32 will be a concern here. The drive is only going to be used as a write once, read many type of device. One all the files are copied on, that's it. There won't be any fragmentation or anything like that. The 360 can't write to the drive either.

Manlove is my forte · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:23

ic1male said:
To be honest, I don't think the concerns about FAT32 will be a concern here. The drive is only going to be used as a write once, read many type of device. One all the files are copied on, that's it. There won't be any fragmentation or anything like that. The 360 can't write to the drive either.

Reading is effected too by the size of the FAT partition. It has to do with the way FAT files are organized by the file system itself and the fact that even if the file system was empty it would take about as long to perform a DIR as it would when the file system is full, the length of time it takes to scan the File Allocation Table is not proportionate to the size of the disk either. It takes disproportionately longer to perform the scan the bigger the partition. So if you do have 36GB of music, what ever is at the end of the File Allocation Table will take a lot longer to access than what is at the beginning. (FAT really is a POS)

So just be warned about creating too big a partition.

ic1male · 20 Aug 2007 at 20:29

Thanks for the info. Now why couldn't they [MS] let the 360 read NTFS. It's their filesystem for Pete's sake! It would all be a lot easier.