How to access Napster downloaded songs on Xbox 360 without Media Center |
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My son came up to me yesterday and said his friend told him we could listen to music from our computer on the Xbox 360. I replied that sure we could, if we had a Media Center, but we don’t. Then he said to check out Windows Media Connect and I remembered this post too:
Windows Media Connect lets you connect your Xbox 360 console to a PC running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later—it doesn’t have to be a Windows Media Center-based PC.
Within minutes we downloaded and installed the application on the host XP computer which has a Napster subscription on it. I thought: wonder if I can access that new Dio Holy Diver Live album I downloaded through the Xbox 360?
Wow, very cool. So you can get a Napster monthly subscription, download your favorite tunes to the PC and then listen to all of them on your Xbox 360 while playing. And check out the uber cool visualizations by Yak (Jeff Minter) pictured at the top of this post and below. My lousy pictures just don’t do the pixel music justice.
[…] We’ve bounced around a bit with the legal online services trying Rhapsody, Y! Music and currently have a subscription with Napster. Our oldest teen is a music hound and uses the service frequently. I’m listening to it now as I write this and was listening to it through the Xbox 360 on Saturday. One thing I like about Napster is the ability to download the songs to your PC.Yes, they are DRM protected, but they can still be played through the Xbox 360 without Media Center which I wrote about over the weekend. […]
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Yes but you can’t do that with videos. Which is a shame!
Comment by Martin Lortie — May 1, 2006 @ 11:29 am PST
I did the Windows Media Connect thing, I have songs via Napster To Go, and yet it still won’t play the songs i have stored on my PC.
I don’t know whats wrong.
Comment by Steve — August 23, 2006 @ 3:48 am PST
So.. you want to watch videos?
What you need is a program like WinAVIVideoConverter. And however you end up getting the program is up to you, so were all aware I’m not sponsoring piracy. The main problem is, you usually need to buy the program though, as there isn’t a free one… unless…
The problem is, the XBOX 360 doesn’t play AVI files as you’ve probably already figured. So you need to change the video format to WMV. I’m not techy enough to know why or care, but that’s the deal. So once you’ve changed it over to that, just go to videos instead of music. Make sure the videos are on the C: drive if you have a partition, otherwise it probably won’t find them. I keep all of mine in the “My Videos folder” in “My Documents”.
Anyway, that’s all I know. If I knew anything else I’d know why it won’t connect to mine now. I guess it gave me a taste before telling me I need to buy Windows Media Center.
Comment by Colby — June 18, 2007 @ 4:34 pm PST