Comments on: HOW-TO: Streaming Music and Pictures to a 360 from a Mac

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:07:11 +0000

Top notch stuff and with the new fall update my 360 is now happily play xvid video as well all streamed from my Maxtor NAS via my iMac

Cheers!

By: bob

bob — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:55:39 +0000

the link to the demo above doesn’t exist.
I did a google search and found the webstie but it only had a 30 day trial. when i unzip this it only gives me a setup file called mediaserver

By: Jaak Ennuste

Jaak Ennuste — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:53:39 +0000

I have tried MS Media Connect 2.0, MS Media Player 11 (Media Connect 3.9) and D-Link Media server. Twonky beats them all big way. It is fast and dont skip. It handles large collections (5000 tracks) and hase very handy Artist Index, Album Index etc mode. I recommend Twonky to everybody.
More in my blog: http://jacksgadgets.blogspot.com/

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agenturblog.de » Xbox360 mit dem Mac verbinden — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:02:41 +0000

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By: Balazs

Balazs — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:36:11 +0000

I have to say that I have just tried out Connect360 and it doesn’t work for me. It says that it has found my 360 and is streaming content to it and found all my music etc, but my 360 can’t find my mac. I even restarted the Mac and turned off the firewall, but nada. Well at least Twonky’s stuff works.

By: Arachneya

Arachneya — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:36:06 +0000

Oh, I forgot to add:

The unregistered version limits the music selection to 100 songs. This may seem adequate, but it’s spread out over your entire library. It may only pick 25 songs from the sum of your playlists, and 75 from the library. Point is, no playlist will have all its songs streamed (that is, if you song collection exceeds 100).
What to do? Pay the $10 asking price to get full support. Which is actually quite small and supports an excellent software.

Reading back, it sounds like I’m promoting Connect360. Well, that may be so. But not because I am being paid by NullRiver, but because it works so well. I can’t stop gushing about it.

Oh, and I’m an unabashed Xbox fanboy.

By: Arachneya

Arachneya — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:28:56 +0000

An update.

For the past week and a half, I’ve been using Connect360 from Nullriver. Available @ http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360.

It is vastly superior to Twonky Media, in that it actually has a native OS X interface, instead of an irritating web interface. Music is taken from your ITunes playlist, and pictures from your Iphoto album. The initial release (0.9) crashed on 10.3.9 as soon as it detected the 360. 1.0 fixed that. But the big one was the 1.5 release which now supports Iphoto 3 and 4 (for those 10.3.x users). This forced me to upload custom (4×3, 16×9) images to my Iphoto album and it works great.

I’d venture to say that Connect360 is superior to Media Connect on XP. As soon as allowing/denying permissions for certain Xbox 360s is added, as well as video streaming, I won’t be using Media Connect on XP again.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:39:16 +0000

thanks man, needed this. very good tutorial.

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:18:10 +0000

Thanks a bunch, I’ve tried to get it working before without luck, your tutorial saved my day

By: quasibonko

quasibonko — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:41:57 +0000

I got this sucker working for my itunes stuff but not with pictures but the 30 minutes ran out on the trial before it could finish doing a resca. Now all I need is a 3sitty which comes out 23/03 here.

By: Balazs

Balazs — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:45:12 +0000

It seems to me that your IP address hasn’t been configured properly:

Next thing to do is to go into the ‘Network’ tab, again using the menu bar at the left. Scroll down if you can’t see this. Here in the ‘IP address of the server’ box, type in your IP address of your computer. If you don’t know what it is go to ‘System Preference -> Network -> Click on your internet connection (eg. Airport) -> Configure -> TCP/IP -> Look at the IP that is displayed in the IP address box‘. This is quite crucial otherwise it won’t work properly.

Try that and see if it helps,
Balazs

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:59:46 +0000

I need help with the full version. I tried the trial and it worked until it ended (I was in the middle of listening to music), and the server stopped working. I opened up terminal again and the first time it would say, blah, blah Welcome to TwonkyMedia and then it would say ip found and would show my ip address. This didn’t happen the second time so I figured that it was just because of the trial so I decided to buy the full version. I downloaded the runtime version and opened up terminal, made all of the adjustments to the configuration page but when I go to my 360 to connect to my iBook, it doesn’t find it and in terminal it says:

ifconfig: en0 has no inet interface address!
17:49:36:752 [ERROR]DB:chdir failed iBook/Users/Edga/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music
17:49:36:755 [ERROR]DB:chdir failed iBook/Users/Edga/Pictures
17:49:36:758 [ERROR]DB:chdir failed iBook/Users/Edga/Movies
ifconfig: en0 has no inet interface address!

So I figured something is wrong with my content. I have switched around different combinations of slashes in different places and putting a space after the comma but nothing seems to work. I also noticed that on the configuration page it shows that I only have 1 song and around 200 radio channels. I know I have many more songs than that. I do not know what else to do. I don’t want the $24 to go down the drain. Please help.

By: Balazs

Balazs — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:24:47 +0000

Have you disabled the firewall in OS X?

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:22:23 +0000

Hi there. My 360 finds my Mac without any trouble but that’s where the problems start. It will either find it but then say it can’t find any file because it may be behind a firewall or it just sits there and does nothing no matter how many times I press select on the computer it finds.
According to the Twonky status screen my 360 is connected and it also shows 2981 music tracks under the “served content items” but try as I do I can’t stream them.
Any thoughts anyone?

By: Ben Babics

Ben Babics — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:12:04 +0000

I guess we’ll see; I just emailed the company to double-check the price when converted to USD. I’m seriously looking at purchasing the program if it is truly within a reasonable price. When I receive a response I’ll let you know. Thanks!

By: Balazs

Balazs — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:47:07 +0000

That has to be a mistake! It is because of the comma after 19. The europeans use a comma instead of a dot for the decimal point and in conversion tools this can cause them to get mixed up. Try typing in 19.95 into the conversion field.

By: Ben Babics

Ben Babics — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:37:56 +0000

I was considered purchasing it until I converted the price from the Euro to USD- it’s $2,400!! That’s crazy! On the website it said 19,95 Euro’s which converted into USD is $2,400! Ouch!

By: Balazs

Balazs — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:27:45 +0000

No, as it really depends on where the file is stored. I’ve tried it but it didn’t work for me a showed me an error. I’m not very good at Automator and Applescripts so I wouldn’t know. Sorry! But if you really like the app, then consider purchasing it as it is not that much.

By: Ben Babics

Ben Babics — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:10:16 +0000

Hey, I ended up getting it to work! I just took off the “/” at the end so it was just “M|/Users/babics/Music,P|/Users/babics/Pictures”. Also, is there a tutorial on how to use the Automator to open up files every half hour?

By: Balazs

Balazs — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:59:37 +0000

Is your username typed in right? Are you sure it ios not in any capitals? Other than that I’m not sure.
IF you re-type them in and in the config menu on the main status page click on: “Rescan Content Directories”
That may do the trick, but otherwise I’m not sure.

Hope I could help,
Balazs