I've been using MJ/MC for years. I used to use the media server to listen to songs on my upstairs PC stored on my downstairs PC (tied together through a Netgear RT314 router, no wireless involved). It was pretty easy. But I haven't done that for months, and now things have apparently changed.
Now I'm trying to do it with the latest MC (11.0.312) on both PCs, but every time I try to find the downstairs server, my upstairs PC says "Failed to Find Local Media Server". I've looked around on the forum, but all of the messages seem to assume a bit of basic knowledge that I don't have. For example, there's a great screenshot of a config screen near the end of this thread:
http://tinyurl.com/9srax , but there are no instructions on how to get to that config screen, and I can't find it. I found one at Tools/Plug-in Manager/Interface/Library Server, but it doesn't have the options the other does (particularly the port manager).
What I'd really like is step-by-step instructions on how to set this up. And then some sort of step-by-step troubleshooting tips if it doesn't work.
FEEDBACK ON: As I said, I really like MC, have paid for several upgrades, and have turned friends on to it, etc. But it's really lacking in the "how does one USE it?" department. It's great for my power-user friends, but I can't recommend it to my less computer-literate friends until there's SOME sort of documentation besides searching the user forum for similar complaints. I appreciate that it's designed well, so most people shouldn't need documentation to do most of the things most of the time, but it only takes a few frustrating things like this to make potential new customers stop even trying to use it. PLEASE write some sort of user/troubleshooting manual for this awesome product that I mostly love! FEEDBACK OFF
Thanks and somebody please help,
Fred