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#Album flow view for xbmc how to#
#Album flow view for xbmc install#
#Album flow view for xbmc Pc#

Find the folders/drivers and set up sharing.

#Album flow view for xbmc how to#

Once I move away from the present system to external drives made available through the Time Capsule that’s in my future I’ll update how to access that. Consequently, I’ll be laying out how to easily automount Windows NTFS-formatted drivers. I know – it’s not the best or nicest method of doing things, but it’s what I had at the time.

#Album flow view for xbmc Pc#

I should be honest – all I’ve done is load up an old PC with a buttload of HDDs, assigned them unique names, and share out the volumes across my network. Mount Yer Volumes!Īs it stands, I’m currently running a (crappy) Windows XP fileserver. Now that we’ve done the easy parts, let’s get a bit closer to actually getting ready to play your precious, previous media grin.

Follow the onscreen instructions for ‘Doug’s Enter Long Description Text for Selected’ script.

If there isn’t a ‘Scripts’ folder there already, just create a New Folder, name it ‘Scripts’, and place the script in the newly created folder.

Drag the ‘Find Album Artwork With Google’ script to /Library/iTunes/Scripts/.

Then drag a copy of it to the Dock – this will save you a lot of time later on.

Drag the Moveie2Tunes script to the Applications folder.

#Album flow view for xbmc install#

Install flip4Mac WMV this will let you want WMV files in Quicktime.

This give you the ability to play most video formats in Quicktime.

Install Perian, let it update itself automatically.

Give yourself an afternoon or more if you are going to be adding a substantial library). Once you’ve done that, we’ll proceed through them (as a note: this whole process can potentially take a lot of time. Make sure that you’ve updated your iTunes to at least version 7.6.

(Optional): Fileserver/NAS/Networked Storage Drivesįirst, head to the above linked software/scripts and download them.

Script: Doug’s Enter Long Description Text for Selected.

Script: Doug’s Find Album Artwork With Google.

Macbook: 2.2 Ghz processor, 2GB of RAM, Intel x3100.

Hopefully I’ll be able to add to this when I actually own some of the hardware myself grin Listed are the items that this has been tested on. Now that we’ve identified the conditions for victory, let’s go and investigate how to do this!

Access media from my Fileserver (this, really, is what makes this whole thing a pain in the ass).

Be as good as Vista Home Premium! While I really do want a dominantly Mac environment, I’m not willing to do so at the loss of overall functionality.Be simple! If it take a lot of work to maintain, my hopes of spreading that work around are doomed to failure!.I’m not going to have a lot of time to futz around with this thing come September. Moreover, I don’t want to be servicing the damn thing on a semi-regular basis. Be reliable! No weird and unexpected crashes.For the purposes of this guide, the media centre has to do the following: I’m currently using a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium as the media centre – it’s native media centre functionality works quite well but, given my hope to move to a more Mac-centric environment, I want to see if it’s possible to actually use something like a mac mini as a media box. This guide is intended to let me (and you) quickly set up an Apple computer as a media centre.