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Users / Re: Duplicate Track Listings

« on: April 30, 2009, 07:48:18 pm »

Responding point by point

1. Windows XP Firewall is already turned off

2. I disconnected and even tried rebooting Windows XP but it did not cause LINUXMCE to redetect.

3. I checked Advanced->Configuration->Unknown devices and there were a number of devices listed. there. I decided to unlocked every unknown device in the list.

4. I then reloaded the router.

5. I have not seen the Samba scanner retrigger the process. I have been checking it on and off for a couple of hours but nothing yet.

6. I checked and my Windows XP machine does have LINUXMCE as its workgroup.

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Users / Re: Duplicate Track Listings

« on: April 29, 2009, 08:23:37 pm »

Thanks for the information. I have been a little slow to reply because I was hoping to try out some of these steps and see if they work.

First, when you instruct me to "remove the existing upnp sharing", I am assuming that you are referring to turning off the upnp service on my Windows XP machine. I did this by going to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services and I disabled both the Universal Plug and Play service and the SSDP Discovery service.

Next, I created a new folder and moved all my media into this folder. Then I right clicked on the top most parent folder and selected the "Sharing and Security..." option. There I checked "Share This Folder on the Network" option and the "Allow network users to change my files" option.

Now I am waiting for LinuxMCE to discover this new folder and ask me if I want to use this Share.

So far I have not been prompted with this question. Is there anything I can do to help this step along? Is there a way for me to see which folders I have Shared on my Windows XP machine that LinuxMCE is monitoring?

Thanks for the help.

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Installation issues / Re: AVWizard Issues

« on: April 27, 2009, 08:27:20 pm »

I am using LinuxMCE with Kubuntu 7.10 v. Sorry about that.

Thanks for info.

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Users / Duplicate Track Listings

« on: April 27, 2009, 06:26:41 pm »

I performed a complete re-install of LinuxMCE yesterday. I was trying to eliminate the duplicate track listings I was experiencing. I thought maybe I had done something wrong in the past and thought that if I started completely over I might avoid some mistake I had made in the past. Sadly, that was not the case.

I set up a Hybrid LinuxMCE configuration on one computer on my network. I only have one other Windows XP machine on my network where I store my media files. LinuxMCE connects to the Windows XP using upnp and it is able to find my media files in the folders that I have set for sharing.

The problem I am having is that for tracks on my audio albums, LinuxMCE seems to attributing each track with multiple attributes. For every track and attribute combination, there is an additional listing in media grid when I am browsing my media. In one particular audio album, each track is listed 12 times.

I have looked through this forum to see if anyone else is having this problem but it seems that most people are not experiencing this issue to quite the same extent I am. It is being discussed as just a minor issue. From my perspective, this issue is having a significant impact on my ability to use the system.

Can anyone provide me with some insight on how to fix or minimize this issue? Have I configured linuxmce or my windows file sharing in such a way that could have caused this? Are there any steps I can take to eliminate this problem?

Thanks for the help.

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Installation issues / AVWizard Issues

« on: April 27, 2009, 06:10:11 pm »

I noticed two problems with the AVWizard yesterday while reinstalling LinuxMCE from scratch.

First, I was unhappy with how I adjusted the image size in Step 4 of the AVWizard and I wanted to go back and do it again but the AVWizard would not allow me to go back. There are no back buttons in the AVWizard and clicking on the tabs at the top does not work either. So I continued on with the AVWizard hoping that at the end, I could select the "I do not agree" button in Step 9 and hopefully I would get the chance to start the whole AVWizard over again. When I got to Step 9 and clicked the "I do not agree" button at the end, I was not able to rerun the AVWizard. The LinuxMCE install moved on to the next step and I was stuck with the default video settings which ended up causing me problems later. So I chose to start the entire reinstall again.

The second issue I saw was that in Step 9 of the AVWizard was the Screen Resolution displayed 4:3 even though I had selected 720P(16:9) in step 1. I believe the video setting was correctly displaying 16:9 but the summary in Step 9 indicated it was 4:3. I believe this issue was reported previously, but I thought I would report that it is still an issue.