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[ersheido]

I'm new to Media Center and just purchased it online to solve a problem that I have.  All of my CDs were ripped with WMA and I wasn't able to play them with Tivo HMO.  

I was able to configure the Media Center and found my music available from TiVo.  However, when I try to play music, it alwasy stops after 20-30 seconds.  It pauses and moves to the next song.

Also, I noticed that it displays the wrong song name.  For example, if I'm playing song 1, it shows that it's playing song 2 and the status on the Media Center shows that it's streaming song 2 even though I can hear song 1 playing.  It's very furstrating and I wish I took advantage of the 14-day trial before buying the software.

[JimH]

Are you using Media Server?

And it is serving music files on CD's?

If so, try copying the files to your hard disk (as a test).  You will need to import them and restart Media Server and the client MC.

[ersheido]

The Media Server is up and running.  I'm not trying to play CDs.  My music is already ripped and is sitting on my hard disk.  There are 2 to 3 thousand files.

[JimH]

If you will describe more exactly what you are doing (including versions of MC you run), someone may be able to help more tomorrow.

[John Gateley]

I know about the wrong song bug, it'll be fixed soon.

What happens when you play the songs on the Media Server machine (without Media Server)?

j

[ersheido]

I haven't tried that.  I'll try it when I get home.  Any ideas about why it stops playing and skips to the next song?

[ersheido]

There's an odd behavior also on the Media Center, but not quite the same.   If I start playing a song and hit the next button, it keeps playing the current song for a second or two even though the next song is highlighted and shown in the status bar.

[John Gateley]

That is cross fading. You can change it if you'd like.

Did the songs play fine on Media Center?

j

[ersheido]

Yeah, they did play fine.

[John Gateley]

I'm working on this, I'll let you know when I have something.

j