Media Aggregator

Before you can aggregate your music from your PC’s to your MediaSmart server, make sure you’ve got iTunes installed, and iTunes has been run at least once, and your music is listed in the library.

On your client desktop, double click on the HP MediaSmart Server icon.

Click on Tools, and then Settings for iTunes.

Ensure it’s enabled, and set it to whatever frequency you prefer.

That’s it. The aggregator should now check your PC and copy it to your server. When this has started, you should start to see some folders appear under \\hpserver\music\PC-NAME\

Troubleshooting the Media Aggregator

• Make sure your user account on your pc has access to your music folder on the server.
• Enabling the guest account and granting it access to your music folder can be an easy way to troubleshoot account issues.
• Check your client hasn’t got a process running that’s stalled called MediaAggregation.exe in Task Manager. This process will be taking CPU time if it’s running, if it’s in the list and at 0%, end the process by right clicking and choose End Process.

• Force the program to start manually, by running "C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP MediaSmart Server\MediaAggregation.exe"

I would suggest running this method, and monitoring it through Task Manager and when complete, run it a second time.