Playlists on the WHS server?
How can I create playlists that reside on the Home Server itself?
I'm connecting a uPnP device (Phillips SLA5500) to my stereo. It finds the WHS (Windows Media Connect) and I can play mp3 files no problem.
However, I'm at a loss how to create playlists that will work from this remote device.
I tried using WMP from a client to create a playlist, but it only appears possible to create the playlist that resides on that client - and therefore is not available to the other WHS clients...
I saw a few other posts that seem to imply that it's possible to do this, but I didn't see any specific steps on how to do this...
(but I am very happy to see that my generic uPnP device can at least select by artist, album, genre, or folder!)
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Hi Martinc98 - This is still in rough draft form. Spent some time on this yesterday trying to make playlists possible. Any feedback would be great! :-)
Currently, Media Connect on Windows Home Server does not allow new creations of Playlists to be used. Here is a potential workaround for how to edit the new Playlists and make them usable on your Xbox 360 or other media connect devices.
- Open \\Server\Music
Create a folder called “Playlist”- Open Windows Media Player 11 on your Windows Vista or Windows XP computer.
- Click “Now Playing” Tab. Remove any music that maybe in the “Now Playing” list.
- Drag and drop the music you wish to listen to from \\Server\Music. You can drag and drop single songs, multiple songs, and even folders if you wish, to the “Now Playing” section.
- Click the “Now Playing” drop down menu that is just above the songs that you dragged and dropped.
- Click “Save Playlist As”
- Save the playlist to \\server\music\playlist
- Close Media Player
- Open “Notepad”
- In Windows Vista, type “Notepad” in search from the start menu, then hit enter
- In Windows XP, click run and type “Notepad”, hit enter
- In notepad, open \\server\music\playlist\<playlist file>
- You will need to edit all the file locations because they are incorrect.
- The lines you will be editing begin with “<media src=”. An example of this is “<media src="\\SERVER\Music\Joels Music\My band Songs\liverecording.mp3"/>”
- Change \\Server\Music to “..”
- Example, “<media src=".. \Joels Music\My band Songs\liverecording.mp3"/>” instead of “<media src="\\SERVER\Music\Joels Music\My band Songs\liverecording.mp3"/>”
- You will have to repeat this for each song until all the songs you wish to play from that playlist have been changed. Then click file and click save. You should now be able to see your playlist on your Xbox 360.
- Actually if you use wordpad and do a 'replace' you can zip through a rather lengthy playlist in seconds. Just make sure to save it without formatting (as a regular .txt file with the correct extension instead of a wordpad file)
- Actually, notepad has a replace option, also.
- Yes and if you use the "Find" option, search for \\server\music then close the find box. From there on out, you can just simply hit the "F3" key on your keyboard and type ".." and repeate. Worked great and pretty quick actually.
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Hi Martinc98 - This is still in rough draft form. Spent some time on this yesterday trying to make playlists possible. Any feedback would be great! :-)
Currently, Media Connect on Windows Home Server does not allow new creations of Playlists to be used. Here is a potential workaround for how to edit the new Playlists and make them usable on your Xbox 360 or other media connect devices.
- Open \\Server\Music
Create a folder called “Playlist”- Open Windows Media Player 11 on your Windows Vista or Windows XP computer.
- Click “Now Playing” Tab. Remove any music that maybe in the “Now Playing” list.
- Drag and drop the music you wish to listen to from \\Server\Music. You can drag and drop single songs, multiple songs, and even folders if you wish, to the “Now Playing” section.
- Click the “Now Playing” drop down menu that is just above the songs that you dragged and dropped.
- Click “Save Playlist As”
- Save the playlist to \\server\music\playlist
- Close Media Player
- Open “Notepad”
- In Windows Vista, type “Notepad” in search from the start menu, then hit enter
- In Windows XP, click run and type “Notepad”, hit enter
- In notepad, open \\server\music\playlist\<playlist file>
- You will need to edit all the file locations because they are incorrect.
- The lines you will be editing begin with “<media src=”. An example of this is “<media src="\\SERVER\Music\Joels Music\My band Songs\liverecording.mp3"/>”
- Change \\Server\Music to “..”
- Example, “<media src=".. \Joels Music\My band Songs\liverecording.mp3"/>” instead of “<media src="\\SERVER\Music\Joels Music\My band Songs\liverecording.mp3"/>”
- You will have to repeat this for each song until all the songs you wish to play from that playlist have been changed. Then click file and click save. You should now be able to see your playlist on your Xbox 360.
Wow....
Thx for the workaround, thats a heck of alot of work to do.
Perhaps a fix for RC2..lets hope. I had this reported on beta1 and Im pretty sure it was closed on connect as postponed.
Dawg.
- Actually if you use wordpad and do a 'replace' you can zip through a rather lengthy playlist in seconds. Just make sure to save it without formatting (as a regular .txt file with the correct extension instead of a wordpad file)
- Good note, I'll try wordpad instead of notepad when I get home.
- Actually, notepad has a replace option, also.
- Yes and if you use the "Find" option, search for \\server\music then close the find box. From there on out, you can just simply hit the "F3" key on your keyboard and type ".." and repeate. Worked great and pretty quick actually.
Just to add to this, Notepad has a replace all option. Works great!
Have it replace \\server\music with ".."
