Adam's Media Center Help Guide

[dmt1]

Adam's post from over at the old lounge:

Kurt hath requested, I must oblige the all mighty moderator.

I threw together a little MJ User Guide since so many new folks are trying it out. Sort of a tutorial of sorts on the basics of Media Center (formerly Media Jukebox) and getting tunes onto the iPod with it:

Here's the link folks, please don't blast my writing or my spelling errors...it's damm late for me

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~ashawley01/


You can also download it as a standalone off-line file here (http://www.home.earthlink.net/~ashawley01/mc9_help.chm) (right-click the link and select "Save Target As").

Since I'm in the mood for plagarism today, I thought maybe this should be over here as well. This guide is a great place to start (Media Center 9 now as an almost all inclusive help section, but Adam's guide is extremely useful for getting started).

**Edit (by Adam)
And since I'm in the mood for editing the plagarized thread I'll do that! ;)

I've also put together a little smartlist primer that might help some of you on putting together a complex smartlist. This was just a one page deal I did to help a user out, but it basically goes through the motions of making smartlists. I haven't checked out the new comprehensive help in MC9, but for what it's worth it's here (http://www.home.earthlink.net/~ashawley01/data/smartlist_example.htm)

[c.c.r.]

(I just love being called "the all mighty moderator", bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha)

[Randy_M]

The link doesn't work. Is there an updated one? Thanks

[Randy_M]

Works now :o

[yez]

Nice guide. I checked out the Smartlist section, as I've been experimenting with them now. I made some pretty cool Smartlists of my jazz collection by BPM and Intensity. I also made a John Williams Smartlist (I suppose I could have done that with a simple Playlsit). But how do you order albums within a Smartlist. Let's say I want to order my Star Wars soundtracks from Episodes I through VI in a Smartlist.

Where's a link to a thread or guide that will give me interesting ideas for Smartlists to create?

BTW, I'm still using the original version of MC9. I've been meaning to upgrade for a while now. Anyway, I gather from previous postings that, once I upgrade, all my playlists and Smartlists will remain intact. Sounds like the latest version is fairly stable, right?

[pmax]

I went through the (very helpful) guide for prepping a 3G iPod
for MC, and am stuck on the formating.

I'm running MC 9.1.298 and updated my 20GB to 2.1,
named it IPOD, but once I try the format from within MC,
it tries but instantly fails.

Any advice?

Thank you in advance,
Pete

[pmax]

Ah, wait, got it. As mentioned in the MC forums, you need to
uninstall then re-installl MC to get it to wake up to the IPOD
correctly.

Works like a charm now! And there are my ratings!
So much for getting any work done today...