lonemagpie

Come on interwebz, somebody must have some idea what the cunting fuck is going on with this (but even my google-fu fails me):

I’m running XP, service pack 3, WMP 11, with all the sharing settings set up right. For several years, I’ve happily plugged one end of an Ethernet cable into the Xbox 360 and the other end into this machine, and played the albums stored in the My Music folder through the 360 and out the TV speakers.

For the past month or so, however – since having to reinstall WMP 11 after a bad update killed it – I do that exact thing, and instead of happily hearing all the album play through the 360 and out the TV speakers, I hear one track, maybe two, then the 360 stops halfway through a (usually the second or third) track, skips the next track or two, and continues randomly in this fashion, playing some tracks and not others. If I try to select the track that stopped or one that was skipped, the 360 claims this track is an unknown file format, but if I start playing the *previous* track, then hit the “next track” arrow, it’ll play it. And then may or may not stop halfway through, pretty much at random.

So, what the fucking hell is causing this? And how the fuck can I get it playing the whole album again?

And, no, it’s not the 360 at fault in and of itself, cos it doesn’t do this with CDs or albums on its hard drive.

Come on interwebz, somebody must have some idea what the cunting fuck is going on with this (but even my google-fu fails me):

I’m running XP, service pack 3, WMP 11, with all the sharing settings set up right. For several years, I’ve happily plugged one end of an Ethernet cable into the Xbox 360 and the other end into this machine, and played the albums stored in the My Music folder through the 360 and out the TV speakers.

For the past month or so, however – since having to reinstall WMP 11 after a bad update killed it – I do that exact thing, and instead of happily hearing all the album play through the 360 and out the TV speakers, I hear one track, maybe two, then the 360 stops halfway through a (usually the second or third) track, skips the next track or two, and continues randomly in this fashion, playing some tracks and not others. If I try to select the track that stopped or one that was skipped, the 360 claims this track is an unknown file format, but if I start playing the *previous* track, then hit the “next track” arrow, it’ll play it. And then may or may not stop halfway through, pretty much at random.

So, what the fucking hell is causing this? And how the fuck can I get it playing the whole album again?

And, no, it’s not the 360 at fault in and of itself, cos it doesn’t do this with CDs or albums on its hard drive.

Great, so now my touchpad seems to be permanently jammed on, and I can only boot up in safe mode, cos if I try normally I get a continuous "there's a key stuck" (which there isn't, this time) error beeping. Guess I'll be getting a new machine when I get paid this week. Think I'll get a tablet...

OK, - hitting ctrl-esc during bootup lets me sidestep the suck-touchpad issue and boot normally, which is good. Still think I'll grab a tablet at the weekend.

Any suggestions> I want a decent-sized screen, preferably 10" (and really would prefer a tablet/notebook convertible, but can't afford that), and am thinking of the Lenovo Ideapad...

so now I can share music to the 360, but it stops halfway through tracks, then skips the next one and tells me it's in an unsupported format even though it played them earlier, and they're fucking WMA files...

What the actual fuck?

May be offline for a bit: bad XP update followed by failed system restore, followed by ietutil.dll disappearing, and making windows impossible to boot normally.

But as you see I'm finding a workaround. (I've been at this tech stuff since fucking 1985, so...)

ETA - all fixed, no worries.