Topic: Is 360 Media Player Kooky Or What? (Read 178 times)

marky9074 · « **on:** March 28, 2006, 09:42:00 AM »

Just got my 360 today after four months of waiting (then ordering elsewhere and getting it two weeks later...)

Anyway, installed OK. Set up Windows Media Connect on PC. Connected through 360 OK.

What is going on with the media library?! Am I missing something or what? No search. All the artists have been sorted by individual tracks, media player 10 doesnt do this, for example when you have a CD of various artists in MP10 it will show as 'various artists' in the 360 it has added another 12 artists. This also works correctly in XBMC....so what it going on with the 360?

I thought that it might be a function of the windows media connect, but after installing Twonky it is the same, so it is the way that the 360 handles it.

Also I shared my images, but when looking from the 360 I have an additional load of crap from the folder images sucked in from the mp3 files.

What is going on here? Has the world gone mad? I feel like I am using a $50 MP3 player not a $500 super console.

......havent got a game yet! And all my original titles are not compatible.

At the moment I am not impressed, anybody offer any info!

Thanks,

Mark

This post has been edited by marky9074: Mar 28 2006, 05:44 PM

DeQuosaek · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2006, 06:52:00 PM »

Well, if you makes you feel any better, I don't think MS did such a great job with the development of the media player aspects of the 360 and I'm also a little miffed that there are so many good original XBox games that still not compatible (emulated). They haven't even updated the compatible games list since... ... well I'll be... they retroactively updated the list. I could have sworn it wasn't updated a week or two ago when I checked. Now it say February.

Anyway, my point was... now what was my point? Ah, yes... My point was that I preferred good ol' XBMC to what we have on the XBox 360 any day. I wish MS would get in gear and develop something that has many more features and is more customizable by the end user. They just need to look at some of the apps people made for the original XBox for inspiration. A lot of very talented people made some great apps and those kind of apps are what the 360 could benefit greatly from.

Sorry to rant in your thread.

Yes, the 360 Media Player is a bit kooky.

And if you're on a budget and would like to try some 360 games try this link. And on the left hand side check the "Buy It Now items" box and click the [Show Items] button below and then at the top sort by "Price:lowest first". You'd be surprised at how low some people sell their used games for. Just be sure to read the descriptions carefully and take shipping into account. But you can save a good 25 bucks or more this way.

(couldn't get the direct link to that search to work properly)

DeQuosaek · « **Reply #2 on:** March 28, 2006, 07:59:00 PM »

I don't know much about Windows Media Connect because I'm using Windows XP Media Center Edition to stream media, but if it's the same at all, you might want to just specifially share the folder that has all of your pictures in it and pick that folder rather than sharing and picking the whole drive. Otherwise it will find any pictures scattered anywhere on the drive.

Now, I'm just hypothesizing so I could be way off base. Plus I don't know exactly how the interface of WMC works.

marky9074 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 29, 2006, 12:52:00 AM »

I'm actually sourcing a copy of MCE edition just to see if it is any better. Are you saying that using MCE the interface in the 360 is just the same.....that just sucks. I though the whole selling point of the 360 was its other enhancements like media streaming.....

In media connect I have shared two folders, one 'my music' and one 'my images'. even though they are different shares the 360 picks up the images from the mp3 folders and displayed them in 'my images'.......ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Also I just bought PGR3 (i dont actually like it but as there are no rally games at release...)

Now when this is in the drive it spins up permenently and howls like a banchee. It is twice as loud as the old xbox. I played a DVD and this was OK. So playing games is it really supposed to be this loud?

This post has been edited by marky9074: Mar 29 2006, 08:49 AM

marky9074 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2006, 02:23:00 AM »

Well I installed MCE and connected up. Unfortunately the xbox kept barfing, I assume this might be as I was running MCE inside a VM Virtual PC...

Anyway, looking at MCE itself it again sorts artists by the main tag of 'artists' instead of the 'band' tag like MP10 does.....so when you have two artists on one track (a contributing artist) you end up with two artists being shown in the menu.....

Ultimately it is unusable as I have thousands of artists to scroll through, when there should only be a couple of hundred.

Is there any way around this? This is just terrible.....

Mark

marky9074 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2006, 11:38:00 PM »

OK, I formatted and reinstalled on my PC and I have the same, the interface is painfully slow, and I have noticed that underlying the extender using WMC for the share anyway! What I have found really annoying is that I believe that when you set up the xbox/pcsetup program it takes the paths for your music by searching not by accessing the WMP10/MCE database and you cannot ammend them later, even when I added the extra share in WMC....

marky9074 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2006, 10:06:00 AM »

Ok, here are some pics of what I am seeing, as you can see from these MCE is ordering artists using the WMP10 field of 'contributing artists'....how do I change this to 'Album Artists'???

(IMG:http://www.imagebucket.net/images/marky9074/mediacenteredition.jpg)

(IMG:http://www.imagebucket.net/images/marky9074/windowsmediaplayer.jpg)

marky9074 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 03, 2006, 07:40:00 AM »

I think I am gonna give up and reinstall the xbox and use xbmc.....

Drunkn_Munky · « **Reply #8 on:** April 03, 2006, 08:22:00 AM »

Just change the contributing artist to just the artist?

marky9074 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 04, 2006, 09:20:00 AM »

QUOTE(Drunkn_Munky @ Apr 3 2006, 02:53 PM)

Just change the contributing artist to just the artist?

Yeah, but thats not going to work with a CD with Various Artists is it? If I put both the Album artist and Artist as 'Various Artists', I wont be able to see the artists if I wanted to? I thought this was the whole idea. Set the 'Album Artist' as Various Artists, then the 'Artist' as the actual artists. But I dont want it to search by the artist, I want it to search by the 'Album Artist'...

Mark

xXSanjuroXx · « **Reply #10 on:** April 07, 2006, 05:00:00 PM »

not sure how to help you on it marky, but i've had no problems with MCE onthe 360.. perhaps its your copy of Media cetner 2005 on the pc?. just a sugestion

DeQuosaek · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2006, 10:21:00 PM »

QUOTE(marky9074 @ Mar 29 2006, 12:23 AM)

Also I just bought PGR3 (i dont actually like it but as there are no rally games at release...)

Now when this is in the drive it spins up permenently and howls like a banchee. It is twice as loud as the old xbox. I played a DVD and this was OK. So playing games is it really supposed to be this loud?

Well, this response is a few months late, but that sound isn't actually the DVD drive spinning. That sound is the fans that keep the XBox main processor and video processor cool. They only spin up to full speed when playing games because that's the only time the main processor and video processor start really working hard and generating heat.

This post has been edited by DeQuosaek: May 14 2006, 05:22 AM

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