Adding, Changing, and Removing Locations in Libraries

The standard libraries (Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos) all have two default locations: the public folder and your user folder. Each of these has a real folder path as well as the friendly name you see. For example, Table 2–1 shows the names and paths in my Music Library.

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Both of these locations are local on your computer. You can easily add more locations to any library in order to provide access to the following:

  • Folders on a network hard drive, file server, media server, or Xbox.
  • Public folders on another computer on your network.
  • Content from programs that don't use the standard ...

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