UPnP Sharing

Summary:

I want to read the MyBook World (1Tb) from my Xbox 360

UPnP Sharing

SteveSmith 02 Jan 2009 03:16

Hello,

I am new to Linux and also to the MyBook World (1Tb). I have my Xbox 360 and the MyBook setup on a network 4-port hub in my room. I am aiming to provide my Xbox 360 with both Music and Video, maybe Pictures but these are not so much of a problem.

I have so far searched and found many different ways of going about it, the main thing between them all is installing SSH, this I have done as I followed the First Steps guide provided by this website. I went for the cleaner solution to the install, I have also installed Optware and Nano. This seems to be the minimum which is needed to install any other program to the MyBook.

I then setup uShare and I am able to find the MyBook on my Xbox 360, I also successfully played a Movie back. However when I try to play Music I am unable to it seems to register all of my songs as folders rather than documents.

The only difference I can think of between the the Movie and my Music is that the Music is set in sub-directories and the Movie was not.

Can anyone help me with this? I am a little stuck and I really want to get this working. A final trouble I am having is making things run on start-up this is not such an issue at the moment as I have nothing to run.

Thanks,
Steve

Re: UPnP Sharing

Aspirin 02 Jan 2009 09:43

Hi Steve,
Obviously you got Ushare working.
I have never bothered playing back music from the X-Box, although I will try when I get home tonight. I use Roku Soundbridge for that and it works a treat from Ushare.
Are you songs MP3's?
Do your songs show up on the Ushare web interface @ http://mybookworld:49200/web/ushare.html
If so, try to use some other device to playback such as Windows Media Player

As I said in my previous post, there are issues with the tutorial in getting Ushare to run at start up. I have spent a lot of time trying to get this to work, but after removing my server from the network I can afford to leave MyBook on perminently.

Neil

Re: UPnP Sharing

SteveSmith 02 Jan 2009 12:48

Hi Neil,
Yeah I did get ushare to work, took a while but finally seem to be learning a little.

All of my songs are MP3s and all contain the correct ID3 Tagging so devices can sort them into the correct albums, etc. I can see the files on all my PC's about the house, and play them using Windows Media Player, by selecting them in explorer and opening them. However if I try to run them straight from WMP it says that no music files were found.

I am not 100% of what you mean about my music showing up in the web interface. I do not get a list of the files however it does recognise that there at over 800 files and folders which is right when compared to the properties given in explorer.

I am not so worried about it running on startup at the moment as it isn't doing what I want it to anyway. I think that can be left out of mind for the time-being.

Steve

Re: UPnP Sharing

Aspirin 03 Jan 2009 11:52

Hi Steve,
I have just fired up my X-Box and I have exactly the same issue (can't play music from Ushare). I think it must be something to do with the -x switch. I don't have time to play but perhaps you can remove from your .conf file and start without the -x switch and see what happens. I understand that it is possible to start multiple instances of Ushare but how this little box will handle that is another matter!

Re: UPnP Sharing

SteveSmith 03 Jan 2009 23:22

Gave it a go and if I don't run it in Xbox Mode then the console doesn't find the MyBook at all. I also tried DNLA which is for the PS3 but when I enabled this is caused an "Illegal Operation".