ITunes and Digital Media Center?

I am looking for a Digital Media Center as a replacement for my CD Juke Box that can organize music, photos, videos, etc - has anyone done that - or is there a manufacturer that makes one available? Everything that I have found runs Windows Media Center which I am very unhappy with. Want something that I can transfer all my media to but using iTiunes rather than the Windows system??? Anybody have suggestion??

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I can't get my iTunes to play through my xbox 360's Media Center. It will play all my pictures and videos but says "a problem has occured" when I try to open iTunes. Please help

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Why does itunes and other media continue to play when i close the lid on my macbook pro 2011???

Hey, I am new to mac and still getting used to it (making the transition from windows), its amazing! Anyhow, I cannot figure out why my itunes and other media like youtube or a film on vlc player continues to play once the lid has been closed. I thought that when i close the lid the macbook should then sleep. It does everytime when there is nothing playing. The little white light on the bottom right hand corner of the book is on but music continues to play.
The sleep option always works. If I press the power button and choose the option sleep it does so etcc.
Is this normal and am I just being stupid or is there a problem??
I bought the laptop from ebay, its a macbook pro late 2011 17inch. I dont have apple support and might have to make a trip into London to the mac store however I was hoping someone can help me...
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
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Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
Thanks if you can it is muc appreciated....!!

hey, thanks for the reply. I don't know to be perfectly honest. When I close the lid without any music playing it sleeps fine. How could I check?
So basically I pressed the power button and pressed sleep. The laptop turned off and the little white light turned on no problem. I did the same thing with closing the lid and it went to sleep no problem. (Can you confirm that when the little white light is on it means the laptop is sleeping)??.
I then had itunes playing and pressed the power button and when i pressed sleep the music paused then 6 seconds later it went to sleep. I then had itunes playing and closed the lid and the music kept on playing even though the white light was on.
What do you think jessejarvi?

Anyone using itunes with XP MEDIA CENTER?

I have had trouble installing itunes for DAYS! I kept getting the is not a win 32 app...did the troubleshooting but cant get the itunes uninstalled because it never got installed and cant find where to remove the set up. When I try to delete the TEMP folder it has two prgrams running with MEDIA CENTER that will not delete. I contacted apple and they said it is not compatible ith MEDIA CENTER EDITION...however, RADIO SHACK SWEARS it is. HELP!

Not to my knowledge. Media Center's music functions are essentially a wrapper around Windows Media Player - whatever you can play through WMP and add to its library is accessible through the Media Center UI. Unfortunately this does not include your AAC and M4P files. There are some freeware and commercial decoders out there that will enable AAC playback through WMP (www.rarewares.org/aac.html, www.3ivx.com), but for any protected files you're out of luck.
As for front-ending iTunes through Media Center, the HP interface you refer to is the only one I know of and frankly it's not very good. You might try The Green Button forums, a quick search turned up at least one likely thread.

ITunes and Windows Media Player

I just installed iTunes 8 on my PC with Vista and now I can't even open Windows Media Player. I did not change the default to iTunes and expected to still be able to use the Windows player. Any ideas for a fix?

OK, found a solution elsewhere on the net.
I searched for ages on Google and on Apple's site and could not find the solution. Combining what was said in this link http://johnhaller.com/jh/usefulstuff/itunes_arist_in_titleissue.asp with another user's mention of absolute paths in M3U playlists was the solution.
First, load your M3U playlist into Excel as a text file. Use Excel's auto filter function to remove any rows that reference the track # or title - they all start with the pound sign. This leaves behind just the path to the actual file and the filename itself. Then, edit the paths so that they're the full absolute path to the file. In my case, the paths were missing the "C:\" designator. Once I did that, I created a new empty playlist with the name that I wanted, and I dragged the modified M3U playlist onto it. Voila! iTunes added the playlist without adding new files to the library. It's a miracle!
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Actiontech router and Windows Media Center on Win8

While waiting for Verizon to solve their network problems and actually get light to the ONT, they left the actiontech router in my house, so I took sometime to get to know it.
It's definitelly something I don't want or need in my network. It's not a bad router if you didn't have a business class product from before (actually it is pretty much the best you can get short of going to hardware firewall routers in the class of Zyxel, Watchguard and some high end, business class, Dells, Ciscos and Netgears).
Well... needless to say, I am running such a router (a Watchguard XTM-26W) and have security subscriptions with them to protect my network. In addition, it offers functionality and discrete access controls otherwise impossible with consumer grade products.
Now, back to the basic subject: I noticed something ominous and wonder if anyone else has noticed it too. I run my TV service through a machine that uses a Ceton 4-HD PCI-E tuner card with a multistream cablecard. It is installed on top of Windows 8 Pro, 64 bit and I use Windows Media Center as my core TV interface (guide and all). The machine is set to go to sleep by itself if no activity (and TV it's the only thing designed and intended to do and the only thong it does) is detected on the tuner for 5 minutes. This works flawlesly and always did while on Comcast service.
Now, the problem: you put the Actiontech router in the network (regardless of whether it's before or after the firewall gateway) and the machine fails to go to sleep. The router introduces some dort of chatter in the networkk that keeps the HDD active and the computer alive in perpetuity. Did anyone notice anything similar? What is your experience with this?
Obviously, I have no intent to keep the Actiontech router in the network under such conditions. For what I know, it is illegal in fact to put out products that send unsolicited traffic through one's network. Not to mention that it is a security risk. Might Verizon re-consider their insistence on deciding what routers to support and what don't or simply drop all support for all the routers since none is ever really needed? They only have the job to deliver a public IP to my equipment and I should be left alone otherwise (according to FCC). Which they otherwise fail to do by putting a piece of equipment that is theirs in the way and mandating that I use it, since 192.168.x.x is NOT a public IP, according to Internet Council.

LeoZ wrote:
Actiontec responded to my inquiry. See below.
It turns out it's another Verizon problem...
"Honestly no idea what would cause the chatter on the network to prevent sleep\stand-by to function.
Verizon would have to review the issue and see what in the code programming would cause this."
Stop the chatter. Put your Media Center hardware behind another firewall. Like I said mine is Linux IP-COP, which constanty drops these trash packets from the single STB I have on the MOCA COAX.
All from the Verizon network router. Almost like a broadcast storm!
This is a Motorola STB, My Cisco had two real IP addresses asigned by DHCP, and they did not do this. I turned in all my STB hardware and ordered a single STB, and was sent Motorola when I had been using Cisco.
wan-1 in into my Linux box and lan-1 is out of it. Then all my harware which includes Media Center PCs are gigabit switches, not exposed to this. I guess you could use another router and not a Linux PC. This STB is going back soon.
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ITunes and laptop media controls

I have a Toshiba satellite laptop, with media controls (play/pause, back forward and stop). I cannot find a hotkey editor which allows me to change what the keys does, and the media controls only seem to work with windows media player (eww) and not with itunes. Is there any way I can make them work with iTunes? Is there any way to setup any global hotkeys for iTunes?

I have the same problem with my HP laptop media controls. In iTunes 7.1.x, the volume keys on my laptop double registered whenever iTunes was open and not focused on the program, so the volume would go up/down twice at one push and when pressing mute, it would actually mute then unmute as you released the button. However, the play/pause, stop, ff/rev keys worked fine.
I've decided to go back to 7.1.1 until there's a fix, but I don't know how to do it without losing my settings. If anyone can help, please let me know! This is my original post for reinstallation: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=990100&tstart=0

N95 and windows media center..

the 2 don`t seem to like each other .. so i`m now stuck with a laptop that will not talk to my mobile .....the laptop says it is a reconized
has anyone got any ideas how to get round this .. please

I do not think you can do this unless you can convert the Windows Media Center recording to a type of file which is supported by Verizon Media Manager. Media Center files have an extension of *.dvr-ms. Verizon Media Manager ONLY supports .avi, .wmv, .flv, 3gp/3g2, .mpg(non-mpeg 2 videos) and .mp4/m4v files. I have been meaning to try this as well, but have not yet.
Can anyone recommend a good and free video converter for this?
Blame MS for this... that is using a propriety video format...
Let us know if successful.
-oceanx

ITunes And Digital Copy Question

sorry if this has been asked before but
is there a way to register all my digital copy blu rays onto my itunes and delete them so they dont take space away from my macbook pro?
i copied Juno onto the computer then deleted it, and they let me know that even if i delete the movie, it will stay in my itunes. But it doesnt, how do i/ can i redownload these movies anytime?
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As I understand what you are trying to accomplish - copy the Bluray to iTunes so you can avoid an expiration date - then delete the items from iTunes to the trash.
If this is what you intend to do then the items are removed from iTune database and deleted from the HD when you empty the Trash.
A possible work around is when you want to d/l the Bluray after the expiration date is to reset your computers current date and time to an earlier date and time - then copy the items.
MJ

5th Gen Airport Extreme, XBox360 and Windows Media Center

Hi there. A similar question was posted in August 2011, but the resolution was apparently to return the 5th Gen Airport Extreme in favor of a 4th Gen Airport Extreme. Not really a solution. Here's the setup:
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downstairs
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Home Hub 4 and Windows Media Center extenders

Hi, I cannot get my PC to see my Xbox as a Media Center extender. This used to work fine on the Home Hub 3. The computer just can't see it at all. Any ideas?

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http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Speed-Connection-Issues/BT-home-hub-4-wireless-connection-issue-on-the...
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I think I read further down that your XBOX may have been connected via a cable rather than wirelessly and I don't think there was any mention of how your media centre PC was connected, but if your PC is connected via the 5GHz channel it might still be worth moving it to the 2.4GHz one and trying again.
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Hi,
I've just got an MSI GeForce 5900 Ultra VTD256 card which came with MSI Media Center Deluxe II. However, when I try to install it, it starts the install and then gives the error "This is not a qualified MSI system".
Can you offer any help?
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Karen
My system is:
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Originally posted by KarenH
Hi,
Thanks very much for the welcome to the forum!
I will try using \"O\" rather than \"0\" and see if that helps. Fingers crossed...
I didn\'t think that I needed an MSI motherboard to install Media Center - just the MSI video card? What I do wonder as well is that, since all of the first FX5900 Ultra cards are actually manufactured by Nvidia for companies such as MSI, is this why the software doesn\'t recognise the card as an \"MSI\" one? If so, I guess I\'m sunk...
Thanks,
Karen
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Media manager and windows media center

How do I set the Fios Media manager to stream content from the Windows media center to the TV? I was able to set up media manager on a Vista desktop. Would like to set it up on 64 bit new laptop that can be upgraded to windows 7. Please provide step by step instructions.

I do not think you can do this unless you can convert the Windows Media Center recording to a type of file which is supported by Verizon Media Manager. Media Center files have an extension of *.dvr-ms. Verizon Media Manager ONLY supports .avi, .wmv, .flv, 3gp/3g2, .mpg(non-mpeg 2 videos) and .mp4/m4v files. I have been meaning to try this as well, but have not yet.
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Ok, so I've been using Miro as media manager/player portal for a while now,
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and I've been taking a look at VideoDrive for iTunes.
I like the fact that iTunes is the backbone for it, and we all know how easy it is
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VideoDrive or not....
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