It's possible your device appears to the system as both a WMDM device AND a drive. If Media Center talks to it using WMDM, it won't be able to play from it. But if you browsed to it in the My Computer tree, you would be able to play from the drive portion.
When you look at the files in the device view, do the filenames look like virtual paths (i.e. My Device\Music\1.mp3) or a real system path (i.e. F:\Music\1.mp3)?
Thanks.
Well, why would MC talk to this device as WMDM when it clearly doesn't in XP? Yes, I realize this is a Beta Release of Windows 7 but this is a simple function that is not working.
As for how the files look in the device view here are the results from BOTH views (Device and from My Computer):
Device:
- no drive listings... MC detects the drive as RIM Blackberry SD (J:)
- all files are listed on the main window.. eg. i can see the files in row and columns view
Under My Computer:
- 2 listings show up (the BOLD has an internal 1Gb of memory) (I:) and (J:)
- under J:, there is a Music folder and then subfolders
- at no time does it ever show J:\Music\Prince\When Doves Cry.mp3, just a listing of Artist and Album views
Personally, I careless about Windows 7 but if MC is failing to work just from a simple play function from the detected device, then I suggest you take a closer look...
Draiko