All Wired Up! Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 OK... I want to stream music from a computer through a router ---> HTC ---> C4 Amp --> 8 zones. The question is how do I "see" that music? I know it needs to be a shared file but what do I do in composer or do I use Media Edition or???Also, since the Amp is on the network do I need stereo cables between the HTC and amp or does it stream digital from HTC?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Hehe, I got this working at my own house and it is AWESOME. Unfortunately all my files are WMV First, go to System Design (in Composer full version) Select My Drivers. Down at the VERY bottom of the list select Network Storage Device. Add that to your system. Still under System Design, select Network Storage Device. Browse to the location of your music files (make sure the destination folder is shared) and press connect. If it connects, you're in business! Select Digital Audio under the Media tab and scan your system. Post back if you have any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Also check out this post for some troubleshooting:http://www.c4dealers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 Can I set this up remotely? I only see my local network so I'm guessing you can't.By the way, thanks a bunch Taylor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 No, you can't do it remotely unfortunately. If you had Remote Desktop set up you could. Do you have a HTC or MC avaiable to try it with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 I do. I will learn it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Try it out. It's pretty easy to do, but good to get the bugs worked out when you are at home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 Getting an error messege when trying to connect. I've disabled Norton and XP Firewall on customer computer, went from my wireless connection to wired, moved shared file to C drive, still same error.Do I need the login and pass for a user? Any ideas?I have an image but in the general forum it said just click add image. I did and all I get is the IMG open closed thingy. How do I actually post an image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 OK, so I got it to find directory by sharing the root drive C. Not really a good idea, how do I get around this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Hmm... I'm not too sure what you're saying here. What do you mean you got it by sharing the root drive C? Also, i'm unable to see the image attach options too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 I right clicked on C drive and enabled sharing. XP didn't think that was a good idea at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 How did it not think that was a good idea? Sharing problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfleck Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 you should never share your root directory. very bad practice.but there is no reason why you can't just share the folder that is needed that i can think of.i create a folder in the root called "music". i put all my music in there in this format:c:\---\music\----\music\artist1\-----\music\artist1\album1-----\music\artist1\album2-----\music\artist1\album3-----\music\artist1\album4----\music\artist2\-----\music\artist2\album1-----\music\artist2\album2-----\music\artist2\album3-----\music\artist2\album4etc.the album folders contain all the actual mp3's for that album.then i share the music folderi then go to any machine that may need access seperately and create a mapped drive to that folder labeled "m:" (for obvious reasons)if you're using a network storage drive, map a drive letter to the music folder on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I have an externatl drive and I mapped it and it worked great. That's how I'm doing mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasvegas_rob Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I am having a similar issue with my laptop and sharing the associated folder. I have my laptop that I am using with the Composer software on it, hard-wired to the switch. I have shared the folder, and can view the folder if I click Start-Run- and enter the computer name, but when I try to browse to the folder in composer, it will not let me get past the workgroup name (Entire Network - Microsoft Windows Network - Mshome(workgroup name)), and then I can't click ok to complete. I am pretty sure it has to do with my network settings, but I have re-run the network wizard to no avail. Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 Exactly. I put a folder directly on the root drive of the customers PC and enabled sharing. I put the music in there. I then added a network device in composer and attempted to browse to the folder following the same path as the above post. I see it fine but when I choose it and click connect the progress bar goes about 20% of the way then it gives me an error. The only way I could get it to connect was to share drive C. Hmmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 IMAGES ARE NOT WORKING ON THIS THREAD SO I POSTED ERROR MESSEGE HERE: http://www.c4dealers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy.cytexone Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 IMAGES ARE NOT WORKING ON THIS THREAD SO I POSTED ERROR MESSEGE HERE: http://www.c4dealers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=96I've fixed this for you. You can upload here now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy.cytexone Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 try renaming the share to "music" instead of "PC Music". If you have proper access to that share, that should fix your problem. The space between PC and music isn't properly interpreted, and throwing off the mount. Linux doesn't like spaces that aren't properly syntaxed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 I did just that and it worked. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 did you get it to work yet?EDIT: Duh... don't answer that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 Yes, it was either the space or the 12 character limit that the older OS's don't like. Either way, it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 The error message: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy.cytexone Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Yes, it was either the space or the 12 character limit that the older OS's don't like. Either way, it worked.I can't imagine it would have been the 12 character limit only because that limitation hasn't existed since DOS/win3.x/win95. Linux/OSX/winxp all support long file names. When in doubt, use underscores as opposed to spaces and mind your case-sensitivity (i.e. pc_music, instead of pc music, and/or PC_music is different from pc_music). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 CX called me today and said that he can see the album art but the music won't play. He then said that he re-started Norton AV as I had forgotten to do so. Hmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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