Windows 8 In Depth

Streaming Your Media Library

If you’ve spent a great deal of time ripping audio CDs, downloading music files, adding other media to your library, and organizing the library, you probably do not want to repeat all that work on another computer. If you have a wired or wireless network, however, you can take advantage of the library work you have done on one computer by sharing—or streaming—that library through your local homegroup. This enables any other homegroup user to include your media in their Media Player library. This also applies to other user accounts on your computer. Those users can sign on and then access your shared library. Your shared library is also available to other media devices on the network, such as an Xbox 360 or a networked ...