Music

About My Music

My Music is the component of Xbox Media Center that tames your hunger for great music. Some of the key features of My Music are: Support for a countless number of formats and codecs. You can find a full list here. A full-featured Music Library that makes it easy to organize, find and listen to your favorite music Built in ability to stream media from computers on your network gives you access to your entire collection Full support for Playlists, including Smart Playlists The capability to stream thousands of radio stations directly from the internet Fully integrated support for LastFM Jaw-dropping Visualizations that add the visual element to your music experience A fully customizable view Integrated CD Ripping

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Using My Music

You will find the interface of My Music as easy to operate as the rest of Xbox Media Center. General Navigation

The On Screen Display (OSD)

There are two onscreen displays available in My Music: The mini-control Press the Start Button on the controller to display the mini control. The Visualization OSD The Visualizations OSD is pictured to the right and is available by pressing Start (Menu on the Remote) while in visualization mode. The Buttons on the OSD are as follows: 1. Now Playing - Selecting this opens the Now Playing Playlist 2. Select Visualization - Allows you to select the visualization being displayed 3. Visualization Preset - Allows you to select the visualization preset being displayed 4. Visualization Settings - Allows you to configure the current visualization

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Using Bookmarks in My Music

Bookmarks are an important aspect of My Music. Setting bookmarks allows you to easily access your music.
Xbox Media Center gives you the ability to bookmark media that is:

• On your PC (or any other network attached storage (NAS) system, which supports SMB Sharing)
• Stored directly on the hard drive of your Xbox
• On CDs/DVDs in the Xbox DVD drive
• Streamed from the Internet

For information on setting up your bookmarks, see Bookmarks.

Music Sources

XBMC gives you the ability to listen to music from a variety of sources. Click here for more information

Playlists

Playlists are also fully supported. Click here for more information

Listing Modes available in My Music

Files View Files View is the most basic way of browing your music. In Files View, you browse through your bookmarks folder by folder, in the exact same way that they are stored. What you see in Files View is the same as you would see if you were to view the folders on your computer.

Library View Library View is much more advanced and has many more features than Files Mode. In order to utilize Library View, you first need to scan your music into the Music Library using the Context Menu. Be patient, as this can take quite a while if you have a large music collection. For more information on using Library View, see Music Library.

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Thumbnails There are a number of ways to get Thumbnails to display in My Music. One is is via AMG/Allmusic.com and described in the Ripping CDs section. If you want a custom thumb, you can add a tbn file to your movie directory. The tbn file can be either a jpg or a png (with transparancy) that you simple rename the extention from jpg/png to tbn, (and the size of the picture can be anything from 128x128 to 256x256 in pixel size). eg: Music\path\audiofilename.mp3 Music\path\audiofilename.tbn For the above example audiofilename.mp3 will now use the thumbnail audiofilename.tbn If you store each of your music-albums or artists in a separate subfolder to keep things organized, you can also make the folder have a custom thumbnail image. To do this you need to rename your jpg thumbnail as folder.jpg and place it in the folder, (the size of the picture can be anything from 128x128 to 256x256 in pixel size). eg: Music\path\album\folder.jpg Now your album/artist folder will have a lovely custom thumbnail-image.