playing music on Xbox

[RoniMan]

just out of curiousity, is there an easy way to get my mp3's onto my Xbox? (it's not modded, so it won't read burned CDs).

TIA

[DaFunkyUnit]

no.

you would have to burn the mp3s onto a CD, then have the Xbox rip the CD. reason being is that the Xbox only reads WMA format.

edit: reading your post a little more carefully, you'd have to burn your mp3s onto a CD as a music CD. then the XBox reads the music CD and creates a soundtrack. then from the MS Xbox dashboard, you can play your music (which is in WMA format). also, for some supported games, they can be used as a custom soundtrack to your games (like all the ESPN sports series).

[kain9i6]

Unless you mod your xbox, then you can put Media Center on it and stream MP3s and movies through your networked computer on it. Plus other things.

[kei2]

Like DFU said, stock Xboxes CAN read burned CD's, if they're audio CD's and not data (MP3) CD's.

[hapoo]

I don't know about the newer xbox's but the old ones couldn't read any CDRs. You had to burn everything on CDRWs or DVDRs

[kei2]

Oh really? Mine (bought summer 2003) can read CD-Rs fine... but yeah dunno about the original (2001 and 2002) ones. I think Roni's is newer anyway, so CD-Rs should be okay for his.

[RoniMan]

i've tried burning as an audio CD format...but it's not reading, could it be the CD-Rs i'm using?

[dRu168]

Really matters on your drive. There are three, Samsung, Phillips, & Thompson. You can tell you have a samsung if there are two holes along with the big hole in the tray when you open it. If you have this drive you=lucky as hell since those pretty much play anything. =O

[Agent Plissken]

My 2 cents:

Microsoft Kereoke music program (the one with the MIC) comes software to send MP3s and pictures directly from your computer to your xbox through a network cable. It is a crappy program that is difficult to use, but it works.

[DragonTemper]

go buy mtv music mixer, you can get it used for like $15 at a game store, thats how I put my computer music on mine