Will Xbox 360 stream iTunes from PC?

[emmcubed]

For those who are lucky enough to have a 360, is that a viable alternative to buying a dock? If and when 360s become available, I was wondering if it was even possible to stream the music from your iTunes or if that requires some sort of modification. It would be great to save the $100 I'd spend on a dock and just use the Xbox.

Thanks in advance.

 

[jaydon34]

plug ur ipod into the xbox no need to stream

 

[emmcubed]

Right, I know you can do that, but it's just that I'm gone in the evening and was wondering if that would work for my wife to listen to the iTunes library while I have my iPod. Again, that is assuming that I'll EVER have a 360...

 

[MidnightSlade]

I dont think you can stream from iTunes. To stream to a 360 I belive you need a Windows Media Center Edition PC (2005 Edition or higher), which, assumin g you have, you can only stream from the My Music section, or the My TV Shows for shows. Additionally, you should take into consideration that the xbox 360 only plays mp3s. So if you bought anything off iTunes, you'll have to convert it to an mp3 to play on the 360.

 

[MR ROBOTO 9000]

From what i've read the 360 won't play AAC files from computer. O.K. Stupid design
Since I don't want to reencode my 5000 AAC files does anyone know if I can copy them all to a seperate harddrive and convert those to mp3 therefore leaving the original files as is ?
If so how do I do this??

 

[elam]

If the Xbox has an audio input you can stream from iTunes using an Airport Express. It wouldn't have to deal with DRM because Itunes handles that. I don't know if this is what you had in mind because you don't really need the xbox for this - any receiver will work.

 

[emmcubed]

Wow, got a 360 on Sunday and not only will it NOT stream iTunes, it won't even play protected AAC files from the iPod itself! I can't even listen to the music I've bought through iTunes! It will only play the music I ripped from my own CDs or got *ahem* elsewhere when I was a less honest individual.

I can only hope Microsoft will release some sort of fix for this, as it's not doing anything to protect artists but is instead keeping people from using their unit to listen to the music they legitimately bought.

Reminds me of my pre-iPod days when I had a Sony Minidisc player (for one month) and it wouldn't let me copy my own CDs onto the discs--yeah, the CDs I legitimately owned! Took it back the week the Mini came out and got that instead. Thanks Sony for turning me to Apple! And thanks Microsoft for penalizing me for being honest and purchasing my music.

A bunch of rubbish the whole thing.

 

[MidnightSlade]

I doubt Microsoft will help a competeing computer company... Dunno though... I was told I was getting my 360 (but Im not holding my breathe) so I can see for my self.

 

[emmcubed]

I really loved the idea of iPod integration with the thing, but really, for Microsoft, it's nothing more than allowing it to play protected AACs as opposed to just the ones I ripped myself. The 360 even does visualizations with audio--pretty attractive on an HDTV. I just wish they would take that one tiny next step since they promise iPod integration and are not, in my opinion, delivering it without strings attached.

 

[MidnightSlade]

Hmmm, I got mine today (WOW) and Im a bit disappointed in that it does not play the ACCs (which I have a lot of...) My question, is can we still play movies or videos we've bought on iTunes? Or is there just no video support?