JoeyN Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 I was at bestbuy a little while ago and they had it there. I was thinking of picking it up for the media player and the photo slide show parts of it . Not to mention it would be fun at the next RSGH :-) Anyone else give it a try yet? capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orpheus Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Had it in my hands tonight, maybe next week. Poking around the xbox.com site I came across xboxkaraoke.com. Looks like ready to go karoke songs are $2 a pop, decent selection available. Might be worth picking up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted October 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Yeah ill probably pick it up after this weeks blitz of games. I wont use it for the Karaoke part much but there are a lot of cool songs on there. Lets do Dr Evils its a hard knocks life :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kilroy Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Has anybody tried streaming music or pictures with this product? Can you tell me if it requires your music and photo folders to be "shared" on the machine it is streaming from? I would like to get this product for the streaming abilities, but I would be using it with my work laptop and I'm afraid sys policies on the machine would prohibi me from setting folders to shared. That option does not come up when I right click on a folder. I do get a security option with which I can set permissions for users, but I don't know if that would work for networking. Does anyone have any insights? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted October 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 if you check out the xbox karaoke site it does have a thing that shows you how to hook up your comp and x-box to transfer files capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kilroy Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I was thinking more of the streaming media functionality. The karaoke tracks get transferred to your hard drive because there is processing and mixing to be done. I assume (and I hope I'm right) that for just playing regular songs, you don't have to transfer them to the hard drive, rather, the Xbox acts as a pass thru for the music (ergo streaming). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I've heard a ton of mixed messages on this product's support for storing mp3s on the PC rather than the Xbox HD. Personally, if I buy it it's sadly for the karaoke option rather than the mp3 side of things. The joys of being married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I played with it at work tonight. I really can't see how this is worth $50. Without a PC to connect to I didn't get to try out all it's features and I'm not a fan of Karaoke at all so perhaps I'm not the target audience. Still, I noticed really slow load times and just some silly features. Being a big fan of visualizations I was excited to try out MusicMixer's offerings. While a few are OK the 3D club scene ones are just stupid. 3D ravers dancing in a 3d club -and you can choose their outfits! Fun (not!). I didn't care for the interface either. Selecting songs was slow and awkward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted October 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 its actually $40. I think ill give it a try eventually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orpheus Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 if i get this, it's solely for the karaoke features Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I went ahead and picked it up over lunch. I'll post impressions after work and I play around with it a bit... Don't know if this is posted somewhere else but the karaoke songs included on the disk are: Hanging by a moment The Middle YMCA New York, New York I Got You (I Feel Good) U Have to Call Lady Marmalade Fallin Steal My Sunshine Papa Don't Preach I Will Survive Love Shack Amazing Grace Auld Lang Syne For He's A Jolly Good Fellow Wooo woooo finally I'll be able to sing Auld Lang Syne in the comfort of my own home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bryan Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Chris, Get a snootfull and videotape your Auld Lang Syne karaoke effort and maybe we can use it as a flash movie for LCVG over the holidays! The owners would go for that, wouldn't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 * * * * * WARNING * * * * * If you are looking to buy Music Mixer with intentions of copying over songs for use in other games or outside of MM here is something to consider - Ok you load your songs into the PC import application selecting the list of files (you can't select a directory alone) and it then converts the files to who knows what and then it gives you 5 minutes to fire off the import from the xbox. Now the songs transfer to the Xbox nice and quick But if you want to make them available to games etc you have to convert them again inside a menu optionand it is a SLOOOOOOOOOOOOW process - slower than just ripping to the HD it seems. On the up side the visualizations are good and the karaoke works well. And it did go through and name the tracks already on my drive correctly (well most). It is live enabled for just seeing who is online and just sitting online while listening to music so you can receive invites. I don't see anything about chat anywhere. I'm still experimenting but wanted to let everyone know first impressions... So buyer beware! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 So is it confirmed that it won't do streaming from a PC? -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain rising Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 So is it confirmed that it won't do streaming from a PC? I've gotten the chance to mess around with it (with a PC in the loop, etc) and that is correct - you have to copy everything over to the Xbox harddrive first. And only music and pictures - no video in case anyone was hoping for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Originally posted by Kain rising@Oct 28 2003, 09:29 AM ... you have to copy everything over to the Xbox harddrive first. That's a shame -- at $40 it would've been an inexpensive DAR. I have no desire for it otherwise. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graph Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Originally posted by Orpheus@Oct 26 2003, 07:52 PM Had it in my hands tonight, maybe next week. Poking around the xbox.com site I came across xboxkaraoke.com. Looks like ready to go karoke songs are $2 a pop, decent selection available. Might be worth picking up. Wow! That's not bad! No more bar karaoke for me!! Hey, DS9, I don't have Crimson Skies yet, that's why I'm kinda refusuing invites. I might rent it soon, in lieu of soon buying it (need to find out if I'll get motion sickness...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 One thing I need to test out and it would be cool if it did it (but everything else that we thought would be cool is AWOL so I'm not holding my breath) is if it supported HD - having picture slideshows in HD would be worth the $. As it is I wish I would have waited for someone else to be the guinea pig. Oh well I guess it was my turn. And an unrelated side note - Tivo Series 2 boxes with the Home Media Option are very very good at streaming audio and pictures from a PC. The only thing it doesn't do (yet) is Live365 stations (and ppl are working on that). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant1 Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 it's pretty amazing that ms can't offer a product that is better/equal to what some kids in a certain community have been offering for free to people who own special xboxs for quite a while . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad52 Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 I picked this up last night. It seemed to work just fine. I went out and bought some karaoke songs off of xboxkaraoke.com because no karaoke machine would be complete without "Wanted Dead or Alive" on it. I loaded up the PC transfer tool. The songs "processed" just fine and I got to the import box with the 5 minute timer on my PC. But, when I went to my Xbox, it could not access the computer. I got a message like "PC connection lost". The starnge thing is that my Xbox live works just fine. The Xbox can see the internet, but it can't see my computer. Both are on a linksys router with the latest firmware. Tried deleteing the software from both my PC and my Xbox and reloading, but to no avail. I read up a bit on it last night from various forums, and I don't seem to be the only one haveing these problems. Anybody else here have these problems? Even better, anybody have any solutions? Chad Gamertag - RedEye 52 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Are you running ZoneAlarm or anything like it on your PC? That can definitely get in the way & cause trouble. You might want to try disabling it or any other software firewall you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad52 Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Nope, no firewall. Chad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Dumb question, but did you share the folder your kah rah oh kay songs are in? -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlucci Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Can someone confirm this: Is it true you MUST have Windows XP in order to take advantage of the pc/xbox connectivity? No other Windows OS is supported? Carlos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Originally posted by Carlucci@Oct 28 2003, 04:27 PM Is it true you MUST have Windows XP in order to take advantage of the pc/xbox connectivity? No other Windows OS is supported? That's what MS's MusicMixer to PC connectivity page indicates. That's another nail in the coffin -- the PC I use as the music server doesn't use XP. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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