Does this require Windows Media Player to manage Media? Does this use WMP to manage media?
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With the Sony players, you can use Windows Media if you want...it's compatible. However, it doesn't force you to. If you prefer, you can also use a simple drag-and-drop with folders, like a mass storage device.
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The readme file isn't clear (at least to me) that this is about building on the fly playlists with just the mp3 player. The way I read it this is about building playlists without using WMP on your computer and then transferring them to the player...am I missing something?
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Just plug a USB drive into this player and you can listen to music. It does not read Windows Media files though.
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All I used it with was .ts files [MPEG], recorded on my computer with NPVR [http://www.nextpvr.com/], which is a free, open source video scheduler and recorder. I didn't even try it with anything else. I can only assume that it would handle the WMC formats fine.
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Hi Gissie,I use the supplied Sony "MediaGo" application to download songs and other files to the player and it seems to work just fine for me. It's intuitive and easy to use and reasonably responsive. I hope that helps!
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I have thousands of songs on my WMP 11, can't I just use that to sync? And if I have to "import" all of it to Zune's software, will it still be on my WMP too?
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Windows Media Player plays .mov, you probably just need to download the most recent version. It's Apple Quicktime format fyi.
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I don't use the WD TV Play Media Player to stream video online. I use it to play video files I have stored on my WD TV Live Media Hub which is located in another room of my house. For that purpose it works great.
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There are drivers in the media Player software to load/ access music in "MTP mode". Really if you want to use MSC mode, the player acts like a flash drive or external harddrive- you can load music WITHOUT Windows Media Player.
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It only works with Windows Media Player. it has a small number of apps that came with it that aren't really very helpful, it looks like they went "pretty" over "Functionality" and scouring the web, pretty much all the app sites for aftermarket apps are gone now, but I DID find a program called Aida64 that can be used to create custom apps, that's all I've used since I made one for system stats. and game support for it is pretty light. google it and read the wiki on the g19 and you can see the list of games that support it. nothing terribly new so not sure if games are even trying to offer support.
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it does not require an ipod. you can just plug in a usb drive. in fact that's what i have. it plays mp3's but i don't think it plays wmv files. i don't know what sampling rates it plays at but the music comes out fine to me. the remote does wonders for me although it is infrared so it has to have a clear line of sight to the head unit. hope this helps you out. :)
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I personally stay as far away from WMP's music management even since I got my ZVM. It has a habit of wanting to take too much control over my music and how I have everything set, even with the options disallow it to do anything and I don't like that, I had spend several days fixing my ID3 infomation that WMP got either wrong or just plain screwed up and deleting pointless album art files (album art info can be saved to the MP3's ID3 tags) and after using WMP for something that had nothing to do with music it started to go through and screw some of them up, luckly I noticed quickly before it "fixed" it all. I personally use Media Monkey Gold and it has worked very well for me. You can also use Winamp which is still a rather good music playing program.
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I'm not really sure what systems it requires, I guess as long as you have Windows Media player, you can download music.
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Second thoughts: It could be that the Windows Media Player is the problem. My network sharing of my music files is done through the WMP, and I think it doesn't recognize FLAC files -- I just checked my WMP "library" and my FLAC files are not shown, so they wouldn't be available on my WiFi network. I'm sure there are other ways of setting up "My Shared Music" which might be able to include FLAC files (maybe using Real Player, etc.). Speak to a techie!
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Window's XP is not a requirement at all. I have Win2k and I do everything this device can do. The one obstacle is that WMP10 does not work in Win2k, but there are tons of BETTER programs that do.
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With the Sony players, you can use Windows Media if you want...it's compatible.However, it doesn't force you to. If you prefer, you can also use a simple drag-and-drop with folders, like a mass storage device.
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I am not going to use a 3rd party player. If something doesn't play in WMP by default, I don't want it.In 20 years from now I am not going to go searching for some weird player / codec.