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I've had my system for a long while now, but I never tried to put any tracks on the hard drive before today (I guess I just don't play the types of games that would make use).

I finally gave it a shot now that GTA:SA is out and it's a pretty ridiculous hassle -- it took like 5-10 minutes just to rip 4 tracks, and naming all of them properly was nearly as time consuming.

Is it possible to just FTP a bunch of songs to the hard drive and have it recognize the name/title? What's the proper audio format? WMA at any bitrate? I imagine there are plenty of power users around here that know a faster and more efficient way to get things done.

 

[rahxephon03x]

From what I understand, you need to mod your xbox in order to FTP songs from your computer. I got my xbox about 2 months ago and my drive does not read CDr at all. I don't want to mod the xbox (i play a lot of xbox live). My huge library of music on my computer is like useless. Well I can at least play them on the computer with the sound off on the xbox

 

[IJoel]

You'd need the Xbox Music Mixer to ftp data from your PC on an unmodded Xbox.

Even then, it's a pretty ridiculously long process.

 

[dorio]

Just wait for the 360.

 

[rahxephon03x]

"Xbox Music Mixer" Where do you find something like that?


never mind

xbox.ign.com

 

[Killthee]

From what I understand, you need to mod your xbox in order to FTP songs from your computer. I got my xbox about 2 months ago and my drive does not read CDr at all. I don't want to mod the xbox (i play a lot of xbox live). My huge library of music on my computer is like useless. Well I can at least play them on the computer with the sound off on the xbox

Not necessarily, Music Mixer allows you to transfer photos and music through FTP. It takes forever though since MM must convert the audio file to wma and you then have to do some more waiting as MM doesn't allow your games to recognize the music. To have your games recognize the music you must allow MM to "prepare" the music for your games, in other words more waiting...

 

[8.6 GREAT!]

Isn't like half the draw for the Xbox version of San Andreas custom soundtracks?

:scratch

 

[Kon Tiki]

Use this Border.

With a link

 

[Jumpman Jr.]

rahxephon03x: "Xbox Music Mixer" Where do you find something like that?

Garbage can. It's very disappointing.

edit: It's not that helpful.

 

[Wario64]

Use this Border.

With a link

does it work well?

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

I put a bunch on a while back by using MusicMatch or whatever to burn MP3s as CD tracks onto a CD-RW, then let the Xbox rip those as WMAs. Erase disc and repeat; rename the files while the next disc is burning.

Yeah, they sound just awesome.

 

[Kon Tiki]

does it work well?

Ya, It is pretty fast and stable. The only problem you might have is seeing the files on Xbox from a dash other than evox.

Thanks for the homepage, I could not find the link.

 

[Stryder]

Thanks for the suggestion Society, my brother was looking for something to do this so I'll give this a try today.

Guys, here's a direct link to the app's homepage: http://vxcr.xbox-scene.com/

 

[JackFrost2012]

A good PC-based music manager? Thank Christness, ripping CD-RWs took like 30 minutes per album and was just terrible.

 

[Wario64]

no kidding. does this program allow you to name the tracks as well? Xbox really needed CDDB and auto-name the tracks

 

[sangreal]

You need to mod your xbox to use that app or any of the other PC based Soundtrack managers.

The only way I know of on an unmodded box is burning audio CDs and having the xbox rip them. Or that music mixer or whatever

 

[Kon Tiki]

no kidding. does this program allow you to name the tracks as well? Xbox really needed CDDB and auto-name the tracks

Uses ID tags. You can choose file name, artist-track, track-artist or rename on upload.

You need to mod your xbox to use that app or any of the other PC based Soundtrack managers.

Well I suggested it to border b/c I his was modded.

 

[Stryder]

This program kicks ass! It's really quick and easy.
I did experience a problem with it with previewing the files but I'm sure that will be ironed out eventually. For those others having problems with it, apparantly there will be a new build out soon.

 

[border]

Yeah, I thought the question kind of implied that I was talking about modded systems, since there's no other way to FTP into the thing

Does anyone know where WMAs are stored on the hard drive? I couldn't find them just browsing around...

 

[border]

Ackkk, this program seems kinda busted. Not only did it screw up the stuff I tried to convert and send, but it screwed up the listing for songs I ripped from CD and manually named.

Does it work fine for everyone else?