Windows Vista®: Home Entertainment with Windows® Media Center and Xbox 360™
by S. E. Slack, Greg Slack
Share Your Media
When you have your own computer network, Media Player can share its media library with other computers or Xbox 360 and even computers without Media Center. This is handy if you have, say, several rooms with computers in them but have decided to use Media Center in just a few of those rooms. Maybe, for example, your office has a basic Windows Vista–based computer because you don’t want to be distracted by all the cool things you can do with Media Center. At the same time, you still want to listen to your music collection during the day as you work. As long as all the computers are running Windows Vista, the Media Player Library can be shared.
You need to be sure that all the devices are connected to your home network, but once they ...
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