XBox360 accessing shared directory on Vista

[Guest]

Surely this is possible, but I have not been able to figure it out. I can
connect to Media Center from my Xbox360 to my Vista PC no problem. The
problem I am having is that I want to be able to access the shared folders
(pics & music) without having to go into Media Center on the Xbox 360. I can
already do this with WindowsXP, but cannot figure it out on Vista. You may
say why do this when you can use Media Center? Well, the answer is that I
want to listen to music in my shared folders when playing games instead of
the music included with the game.

 

[Guest]

To clarify a little bit: I want to use the Xbox360 to access my shared
folders on Vista without having to go into Media Center on the XBox 360. I
don't think I was clear in that.

 

[Edward Wohlman]

When you did it with Windows XP you were not accessing shared folders, you
actually needed to install "Windows Media Connect", tell that which folders
of music/pictures etc to index, and then it acts as a UPNP media server
which the XBox 360 can access.

Vista has the equivelent functionality of "Windows Media Connect" built into
Media Player 11, so its should just be a matter of importing the music you
want into the WMP library, turning on media sharing, and allowing the
xbox360 access to the shared library.

Not sure if it still supports pictures that way.