jim... thanks... I'll check that link out later today.
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I merely want to use my laptop to control a desktop sort of like a remote control. All machines have MC 17, though one OS differs from the other XP boxes. Both Desktops feed a stand alone DAC and it feeds into an AV proc, and a Tube line stage pre.
I'm about to acquire a new desktop which will be Blueray capable and it will be one source for primary video playback... maybe by Xmas. that's also when the Oppo 103/105 should come on board… or not long afterwards.
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Listener....
Rude? I don't think so. Please explain that part.
Demanding? Again.... same thing.
I said nothing beyond common sense. I wasn’t trashing your beloved software. Note my post had no input for over 24 hrs and was devoted to a past version, so I thought to be a tad more prominent in garnering some attention.
Across the web there seems this “your first after me” selfishness, and if it’s not current product, it’s no longer real or valid and it is totally abandoned… or so seems the attitude to me.
The actual version of the software should not matter what so ever as to when someone asks something about setup issues or operation. Within reason.
MC skips merrily along spitting out version after version, just about each year. Sometimes an upgrade is offered and another version is closed in less time.
Is the implication then that one must always remain current to each and every iteration or be forever lost with regard to aid?
Zones were included in previous editions… Why then would thay not be included in all those editions thereafter? Then perhaps reappear in some new configuration in a later version?
The common sense notion is that whatever has been incorporated into a product would thereafter be improved upon and/or simplified and made more stable… rather than have it deleted for a time, then have it reappear and called something else altogether.
As to your point of “being late” with my inquiry… you’ve no idea what I’ve been beset by medically, financially or otherwise in the interim which precluded or delayed my post on MC 17 configuration or setup issues.
From my perspective, way more than weeks have passed as I’ve been attempting to silently and on my own, ascertain the steps needed for implementing playback via zones in MC17… as it is entirely different from past versions which were indeed clearer… ala MC 15.
My Q’s were pertinent to those issues arising when I tried to use the newer slicker and vastly different zone approach MC17 employs over that of MC’s past models.
Seeing another of my PCs on the LAN under PLAYIN NOW and clicking on it, another window appears… and the initial choice is “LOAD LIBRARY”… and there’s no apparent way to escape that demanding window.
SO I stated Which Library needs be chosen… BTW… all the libraries as stated initially are near identical if not completely identical drawing from the exact same resource.. my DS 413… so why even chose a library at all?!!
Same thing for the other Qs… why post a thread for each and every Q pertinent to the same concern? That’s just silly and wasteful of server space.
Impatient? Rude? Nope. Not at all. Irritated and frustrated? Of course.
I actually have a life other than Media center and see no reason to continually keep my fingers on it’s pulse as it continues to migrate into another release if the present one suits the present needs, nor should I or anyone be coerced to incessantly opt in to forthcoming releases which may or may not keep features one is happy with already. It means only one must forever live on a learning curve and that is senseless.
Not everyone buys a new car each year… and Oh my gosh, not everyone buys a new I whatever when the new version comes out… and this application is no different IMHO.
Using media playback software to route content to other pcs on the same network is a viable and IMO necessary feature, and one which should not be dropped from later versions, or made more difficult to implement or employ as times pass.
If anything, it should be made easier, if anything.
I saw no screen shots in the manual… Googled and Binged for days before posting here… so I’ve done a lot over a pretty long time whitout positive results… but did find a bunch of other likewise posts which failed to have appropriate solutions given to their OPs.
I also stand on the fact the information provided in the Wiki is NOT altogether rudimentary and seems to take for granted aspects of knowledge which not everyone possesses when reading it for the first time.
Lastly, if a.knowledge base requires one must search endlessly thru the present installed version and those previous to it for a solution said knowledge base is flawed.
One shouldn’t have to read the shop manual for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 Toyota Canry to fix an item on the 2012 model, should they?