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edwardfox

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Media Network Questions
« on: July 07, 2023, 10:09:53 am »

Can someone explain to me in plain English how to do something with Media Center 31? I can't understand anything I've seen on this forum or in the program itself.

I have Media Center on my main computer, which is a Mac.

I have just bought a second license for my Windows computer. I have installed Media Center 31 on my Windows computer.

I want to play music stored on my Mac on my Windows computer. How can I do this?

I wish there was telephone support. That way the problem could be solved in a couple of minutes.

please help soonest!
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Re: help!
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2023, 10:28:27 am »

Enable Media Network on both the Mac and Windows PC, then connect the Windows PC to the Mac. The Windows PC would be the client, the Mac would be the server.

The wiki covers this: https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Network
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Re: help!
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2023, 10:36:57 am »

thank you. i have looked at the linked page you sent. the image under 'ways to connect' doesn't show what appears on Media Center on my Mac. please advisee!
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Re: help!
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2023, 10:56:43 am »

After enabling Media Network on both the Mac and PC, you'd need to close and re-open MC on both.

You should write down or save the access key from the Mac (the access key for the PC won't matter here, since it's going to be the client) after enabling Media Network.

From there on the Mac, go to MC's Options > Media Network and you can customize your settings and view to your liking. But for a basic test of getting it working you can do this later on. Though, I'd recommend going to Client Options (when connected to a library server) and set conversion to Don't convert audio if you want to playback the original audio without conversion on the PC from the Mac. If that doesn't matter to you, then you can skip that. :)

Now, there's multiple ways for the client PC to connect to the server Mac, but on the PC in Media Center go to the File menu > Library > Library Manager... and there hit the Add library button, and in the new add library window you can name it whatever you want, e.g. Mac server or something, then put in the access key of the Mac server and it should connect to it. If you added authentication to the Mac server, it'll prompt for the username and password, but if you didn't it should just connect.

You should be able to access and playback things on the PC now. Just make sure the Zone (Player menu > Zone) is set to Player and not There. If it doesn't connect, that's usually a firewall somewhere blocking it or the access key was wrong.
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Re: help!
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2023, 11:33:04 am »

thank you. i have done that, and now it (options/media network) wants me to check these boxes: 'use media network to share this library and enable dnla' and 'authentication'. the 'authentication' box wants me to add a user name and password. i did that. then when i wanted to close that window, i get an error message that says 'audio file location cannot be read-only'. i don't understand this!
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Re: Media Network Questions
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2023, 11:46:26 am »

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Network

The machine where your files are is your server.
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Re: Media Network Questions
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2023, 12:43:46 pm »

thank you. i think i have sorted it out.
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