Xbox 360 and sharing pictures (folder structure issues)...

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markm75c@msn.com - 26 Dec 2005 02:28 GMT

Hoping somebody has a solution...

Am I the ony one who see's an issue with the way the xbox seems to
share out its pictures using windows media connect and a regular XP
installation...

It seems it puts all the folders in one big folder, making it
impossible to handpick individual folders as needed...

IE: If the structure on your XP is d:\my pictures\ then subfolders
with each year.. like "2005" , "2004" with subfolders under these, it
pulls out those subfolders and dumps it into the root of the xbox 360
pictures folder.

Is there some way to tweak media connect to keep the subfolders as
subfolders in their respective folders and prevent this?

Thanks,

Mark

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Alan Ludwig - 26 Dec 2005 05:55 GMT

It isn't WMC doing that. WMC does expose the full folder hierarchy for
pictures, it is just that the XBox 360 doesn't expose this view, instead it
exposes a flattened view as you describe. This is one of the most common
pieces of feedback that the XBox 360 team has recieved. In fact, it is in
the top 10 WMC related issues that people call xbox support about. My hope
is that they will fix it in a future update to the XBox 360 dashboard.
Unfortunately, I can't promise anything. Given that this is driving support
costs, I think they are motivated to do something about it. Stay Tuned...

Regards,

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Paul Smith - 26 Dec 2005 15:42 GMT

> It isn't WMC doing that. WMC does expose the full folder hierarchy for
> pictures, it is just that the XBox 360 doesn't expose this view, instead
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> is driving support costs, I think they are motivated to do something about
> it. Stay Tuned...

The weird thing is my Xbox 360 does show all the images in all the sub
folders!

May be it's just a North American thing?

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markm75c@msn.com - 28 Dec 2005 15:03 GMT

Thanks for the reply.. I hope that Microsoft will indeed fix this.. or
make it possible to view by folder structure (the same with the music
too).

I had one question though.. does the xbox 360 use v1 or v2 mp3 id3
tags?

I thought it was v2.. as I stripped all v1 tag info from my folders to
create a genre mapping to the actual folder names... but for some
reason a few of the genres I created arent showing up.. i checked and
they do have v2 info associated with these files and folders, but are
missing..

Thanks

> It isn't WMC doing that. WMC does expose the full folder hierarchy for
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Alan Ludwig - 30 Dec 2005 06:47 GMT

Honestly, I couldnt tell you. I wrote the code for that part, but I didn't
do it by parsing the MP3 files myself, instead I used the Windows Media
Format SDK to do the metadata parsing for me. I don't know enough about the
internals of the WMFSDK in order to answer that question. In this case,
that was the nice thing about API's. Someone else was the expert and I just
got to use the tools. We use exactly the same code in WMC for pasring MP3,
WMA, WMV, and ASF files. We simply use the WMFSDK on all of them.

Regards,

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