Vista Media Center -> Xbox360, sluggish interface/navigation

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Don W - 10 Dec 2007 19:02 GMT

Hello,
I'm serving content from a dual-core Vista Home Premium (1.5 GB ram) PC
(wireless G to router, strong signal) to a new Xbox 360 (wired to router. I
have about 500 albums/10000 songs in my library. I find that the interface is
extremely sluggish. When I navigate to Music Library/Albums, it takes about
10-30 seconds for the Xbox to respond to navigation clicks from my remote.
Apparently, it needs to refresh my libary (including all the album art) after
every reboot. After about 5 minutes or so, navigation is fine, so long as I
stay within Albums. If I backtrack to browse via songs or artists, same
problem within those new submenus. And I have the same problem when I move
back to albums (seems to need to refresh again). Is there anyway to speed
this up? Is a copy of the library database (just a list of content, not
content itself) stored on the Xbox (have 20 GB HD)? Do I need to optimize my
setup somehow? Is 10000 songs too large of a library to serve up to an
extender via WMC? Tversity works fine but I'm not a big fan of the
non-Windows Media Center interface (lack of album art and I also want access
to online DRM download sites (i.e. Movielink)). Is the sluggishness due to my
computer or the Xbox 360?
Thanks for any help.

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Don W - 11 Dec 2007 05:38 GMT

seems like the problem is related to my pc's wireless g connection to the
router. when i cable connect, the sluggishness goes away. i understand having
problems trying to serve video when one or more components of a vista media
center/xbox setup is wireless. however, i can't believe that there is not
enough bandwidth over a strong wireless g connection to serve music and
other information required to navigate the UI (xbox is hard wired to router).
any suggestions for fixing this? i never notice problems when browsing the
internet on my wirelessly connected laptop but perhaps the windows media
center connection is periodically dropping out and is more dependent on
having continuous connection? maybe there are some vista or router (dlink
di-524) settings i need to alter for this not to happen?

thanks for any additional suggestions.

> Hello,
> I'm serving content from a dual-core Vista Home Premium (1.5 GB ram) PC
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> computer or the Xbox 360?
> Thanks for any help.

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Don W - 14 Dec 2007 17:14 GMT

Well I guess Microsoft MVPs no longer read this newsgroup (or an answer is
not available). Here's some more info that might help:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/227930/ShowThread.aspx#227930

> seems like the problem is related to my pc's wireless g connection to the
> router. when i cable connect, the sluggishness goes away. i understand having
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> > computer or the Xbox 360?
> > Thanks for any help.

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