Windows Media Connect doesn’t share my files from a network share

re: Windows Media Connect doesn’t share my files from a network share

Edward — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:45:41 GMT

Thanks for the information. Its interesting to see how many different ways something that seems so straighforward can fail.

At long last my Xbox 360 has arrived and thankfully I had no trouble getting both WMC streaming and MCE Extension working out of the box.

One thing I've noticed is that though you can share out multiple folders from both local drives and network shares there is no way to select which file types to share from each folder.

I've shared out my main Music and Photo folders from my NAS device. However since the Music folder has lots of Artist\Album sub folders which also contain WMP-fetched album art I get over 400 redundant picture folders showing up on the Xbox.

This makes it very difficult to navigate to those folders that actually contain the pictures I want to see.

If I could somehow tell Windows Media Connect to only share music from the music folder and pictures from the pictures folder I would have a much better experience on the Xbox side.

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re: Windows Media Connect doesn’t share my files from a network share

crucibleAU — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:23:45 GMT

Hey Alan,

Thanks a lot for this information mate. I did a fairly large search of the net - using both Google and Live search and actually didn't find it. That is until I searched for your name noticing it on a forum.

Unfortunately in my case it hasn't solved the problem, but I think it's a case of needing to persevere.

I've made a blog entry about it and linked back to your page here: http://www.madprops.org/cs/blogs/crucible/archive/2006/03/27/4534.aspx

Hopefully that'll add some search feeds back to your page, mate.

Thanks for your help back to the community, and much appreciated on the security notes.

cru.