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Johnny C

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Managing music on my 360
« on: 21 Dec 2007, 16:45 »

So I've got a portable USB drive, and an Xbox 360, but the Xbox refuses to help me put my music files onto the console. I feel silly starting a thread for this one question but if anyone knows what to do that would help hugely.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #1 on: 21 Dec 2007, 16:52 »

The only way I know how to put music directly onto the hard drive is by using a regular music CD. Mp3 CDs don't work (at least my first-run 360 doesn't, don't know about newer models) I doubt a USB drive would work either. Sorry.

If you're using a wireless internet connection, you can use Orb, which I use. It allows you to access your PC's library of music from anywhere else, so long as the PC's on. It can't make playlists for the 360 (actually, I don't know how to make 360 playlists at all. halp?) but it's still pretty useful.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #2 on: 21 Dec 2007, 22:43 »

To your considerable dismay, you can only copy music from CDs.  Which is dick, but you deal with it.  And I think there's actually a limit to how long you can make the playlists, anyways.  I tried to play all the Acid Mother's Temple songs I had and it wouldn't let me, which leads me to believe that number is in the realm of 256.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #3 on: 21 Dec 2007, 23:43 »

One hundred in-game, according to Microsoft.

Kind of ridiculous that I have to plug in my USB stick every time I want to listen to some non-shitty tunes in Crackdown but I guess I'll live.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #4 on: 22 Dec 2007, 01:29 »

whatever you do, don't plug an iPod into your 360.

yeah, it works but one time instead of working it's just gonna brick your iPod. happened to me; it could happen to you.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #5 on: 22 Dec 2007, 01:35 »

What you should do is actually let that happen, then repeat the process until you have enough bricked iPods to build a modern art piece as a statement against... something.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #6 on: 22 Dec 2007, 01:44 »

yeah, totally, man.


wait...what?
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #7 on: 22 Dec 2007, 02:00 »

Exactly.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #8 on: 22 Dec 2007, 15:53 »

Actually, it doesn't ALWAYS brick your iPod. My boyfriend had his iPod Classic plugged into his 360 and was playing music through it no problems at all and the iPod is still functioning perfectly.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #9 on: 22 Dec 2007, 16:11 »

yeah, it works perfectly.

but eventually, for no apparent reason it will ruin your iPod. be careful, is all i'm saying.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #10 on: 22 Dec 2007, 21:14 »

One hundred in-game, according to Microsoft.

Kind of ridiculous that I have to plug in my USB stick every time I want to listen to some non-shitty tunes in Crackdown but I guess I'll live.

What concerns me more than the music issue is that someone is actually playing Crackdown. It is seriously the worst game I've ever played. You used to be cool J-Cizzle.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #11 on: 22 Dec 2007, 22:07 »

Maybe he wanted to play the Halo 3 beta.

Which... isn't much better, now that I think about it.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #12 on: 22 Dec 2007, 22:38 »

Actually, I'm more concerned with the fact that he's playing Crackdown instead of all the much, much better games on the 360. How much do I have to fucking tell you to play goddamn Mass Effect, man? Crackdown's not bad, per se, but I can't say that it grabbed me well. I only bought it because it came out in March when I had nothing else to play. But if you're calling it the 'worst game you've ever played', Jimmy, you obviously haven't been playing video games for very long.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #13 on: 22 Dec 2007, 22:55 »

Hey!

I went to Blockbuster to rent Mass Effect and they were all out, so I rented Gears Of War instead, and the clerk was like, "For another five bucks you can rent another game in the Favourites section." I rented Crackdown just to check it out.

It is a fairly mediocre game, and I'd have rather got Mass Effect.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #14 on: 22 Dec 2007, 23:10 »

If your PC is on the same network as your 360 (ie. same router), the 360 can stream all of the music from your mp3 library as long as the PC's on, by default. It's easy-peasy.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #15 on: 22 Dec 2007, 23:15 »

I am going to figure out how to set that up and then get it running.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #16 on: 23 Dec 2007, 03:55 »

Actually, I'm more concerned with the fact that he's playing Crackdown instead of all the much, much better games on the 360. How much do I have to fucking tell you to play goddamn Mass Effect, man? Crackdown's not bad, per se, but I can't say that it grabbed me well. I only bought it because it came out in March when I had nothing else to play. But if you're calling it the 'worst game you've ever played', Jimmy, you obviously haven't been playing video games for very long.

I've been playing video games since I was about 6 or 7. I think I'm calling it the "worst gave I've ever played" because out of all the games that I have played over the last 15 or so years and on all 7 consoles I have owned and all 10 that I have ever played for extended periods of time, Crackdown was the worst game I have experienced. So, it is not so much that I haven't been playing games for very long rather it is more that I have played many games that were much better than Crackdown in almost every conceivable respect.
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Re: Managing music on my 360
« Reply #17 on: 23 Dec 2007, 10:55 »

Johnny, just make sure that both your PC and your 360 are hooked up to the same router, then you can access your harddrive via the media blade on your Xbox. I'm fairly certain it's as simple as that.
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« Reply #18 on: 23 Dec 2007, 11:50 »

I checked their help file and it says I have to use Windows Media Player.

Fuck that.
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