Creating Playlists for the XBOX 360

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Streaming to an Xbox 360 is a simple task, but, the main problem with this is there are no playlists. There isn't an automated way of creating a playlist yet, but below is a manual hack [1] which will allow you to create your own.

  1. Create a Folder on your server as \\server\music\playlist
  2. Create your playlist on your desktop (I used WMP11 on Vista)
  3. Copy your playlist to the folder you created in Step 1
  4. Edit the playlist in Notepad or Wordpad (Only the lines that start media src=) so that it references the path to your music.

(Tip, use search and replace!)


Source Example:
media src="..\Audioslave\Audioslave\01 Cochise.mp3" cid="{AD743B0D-EC6F-4C85-B94A-B8ABB994C2F2}" tid="{2D34635B-F615-4BA7-AA13-BBB18F4BFCB6}"/>
Completed Example:
media src="..\Cougar-PC\C\Users\Cougar\Music\Audioslave\Audioslave\01 Cochise.mp3" cid="{AD743B0D-EC6F-4C85-B94A-B8ABB994C2F2}" tid="{2D34635B-F615-4BA7-AA13-BBB18F4BFCB6}"/>

Finally, save the file and your playlist should now appear on your XBOX 360.

References

  1. ↑ http://blog.gryzor.net/2008/01/creating-windows-media-playlists-on.html
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