Stream iLife media to your Xbox 360
If you're
one of the Crazy Ones who fought their way through hordes of game-addicted line-dwellers at Best Buy to get their hands
on one of those swanky new Xbox 360s, this may interest you: Nullriver -- the same company that brought you Amaryllis and PSPWare -- has developed an app called Connect360 that actually lets you stream music and photos
from your Mac to your Xbox 360. It automatically indexes your media, which you can then access over the network via your
Xbox Dashboard. (But while it does index your iTunes library, I don't think it will play music purchased from the
iTMS.)You can download a trial of Connect360 from Nullriver's website -- or you could purchase it for a measely $10. Give it a try and let us know how it works, ok?
[via Gizmodo]
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This works great for me. Unfortunately doesn't work with protected iTMS content, so I think that is another reason not to buy from them! Very much looking forward to video streaming!
February 14 2006 at 2:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPhotos work fine, but whenever I try and play music i get a red circle with a line through it next to the name of the song. And not all of my library shows up either. Any idea why?
February 14 2006 at 1:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt appears that Connect360 doesn't allow the Xbox to see music purchased from the iTunes music store. Assuming that's correct, that could be quite the "show stopper" for some.
Can anyone confirm or deny?
JM, he's talking about a setting acccessible from the Connect360 preferences.
February 13 2006 at 7:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyChameleon-
I think this might be the solution to my problem, but I've got no clue about how to change the audio streaming settings. Do are you talking about in iTunes? Or did you mean on the Xbox itself?
Janson...
I've read in other places that some aac & mp3 files will not always show up if the bit rate is high. (i.e. - 192+) But when you set the audio streaming to "Highest" all the songs showed up without any problems.
Hope that helps.
Works beautifully. Downloaded, installed it, ran it, and turned on the XBox. Registered it, restarted it... huzzah!
It uses ffmpeg to convert your music on the fly to whatever format the XBox wants (I'm assuming Windows Media). I'm sure that these guys are working hard to get video streaming up. I'm sure it'll be something similar where they'll do real time transcoding before shipping it over to the XBox.
Some of the people who wrote XBMC (I think that's the acronym) for the original XBox developed a plugin to let you view Divx/Xvid files from a Windows MCE PC to your X360. I'm sure it's doing transcoding at the PC as well.
Brian -- I found this on Gizmodo. And please note that Gizmodo is not affiliated with TUAW or Weblogs, Inc. So there's no funny business here -- just attributing the source I used.
February 13 2006 at 3:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTried it, loved it, bought it! My 360 has mangaed to pick up some of the AAC files on in my library, and refused to get some of the mp3's... I don't know what that's all about, but so far, it's made me very happy- and that's what counts, right?
February 13 2006 at 1:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI can't get it to work either. I'm sure I don't have something set up right. Exactly what do I need to have turned on on both the computer and xBox? I don't have a firewall so there's no need to worry about that.
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