putting songs onto 360 w/o using cd's

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riky

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Dec 13, 2002
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whatsup people i was wondering if there was a way that u can put songs onto ur xbox 360 without using a cd because i have a pc ful of songs and i can only play songs from my pc but i want to store them onto my hardrvie does anyone kno if i ca do that
 
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riky

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Dec 13, 2002
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whatsup people i was wondering if there was a way that u can put songs onto ur xbox 360 without using a cd because i have a pc ful of songs and i can only play songs from my pc but i want to store them onto my hardrvie does anyone kno if i ca do that
 
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Xion

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Dec 8, 2002
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I bought an 80 gig laptop HD and a 3.5 metal USB enclosure to house it in. I then put all of my pics and mp3's on it and it works great! This way I don't use up all of my XBOX360 internal HD space.

It plugs into my PC for data transfer and then plugs right into my XBOX360's USB port.

Here is why I got the idea from:

Code: 
http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/mods/USB%20Hard%20Drive%20Mod.htmI
I used Partition Magic to format the HD

geno
 
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meldrige

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Dec 12, 2002
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and this drive you use can be used to store any kind of information on? let's say i remove my HDD.. would this 80GB function properly?
 
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Textbook

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Dec 6, 2002
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You can't use it like the MS hard drive. You can use it for media purposes only (music, photos, movies)
 
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Xion

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Correct. It DOES NOT act like the internal XBOX 360 HD but actually like a storage drive which the XBOX 360 can access easily. I believe that you can even put movies on there to view also as long as they are in the proper format. Haven't had time to try that one yet. Saves me a lot of space though.

I believe that this should cover your original question about loading up your XBOX 360 with a bunch of songs without the need for a CD.

geno
 
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WaferJ

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Dec 8, 2002
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smallman01313,

I have a Freecom FSG-3 NAS (Network Attached Storage) that I use to stream music to my Xbox 360. It uses a program called Twonky Media. The Twonky Media can be installed on a PC and in the latest versions can stream movies to the Xbox.

You can also create playlists in media player and use these on the 360 as compilations.

The website for Twonky is

http://www.twonkyvision.de/
 
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riky

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Dec 13, 2002
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ok thanx leon but english bryan does this program twonky does it allow me to STORE songs onto my harddrive because i can easily stream songs onto my 360 but i'm not trying to achieve that so can u confirm or deny if this wil store songs onto my xbox 360
 
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WaferJ

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Dec 8, 2002
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Sorry smallman01313 but my solution is a pure streaming one.

I store my files on a NAS and stream to the xbox.
 
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numnuts

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Dec 21, 2002
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smallman01313 - if you go for the external USB drive just make sure you format FAT32 - x360 does not like NTFS.

englishbryan - does twonky transcode divx -> wmv? i mean from the NAS !! :-o

cos' i use Tversity (great program imo) - but from PC not NAS!
 
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WaferJ

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Dec 8, 2002
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No I'm afraid not.

I use a little batch file that utilises the codecs built into VLC to do the conversion for me.
 
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SPACE

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Dec 18, 2002
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im almost crertain that all the details of the songs are on the credits on the game. then they should be easy enough to find on those file sharing programs. ;-) (wrong thread)
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yea i have a 320gig usb seagate hdd pretty handy for music and videos. theres only one format that the 360 accecpts and thats the .wmv. i ues winavi to convert my vids so that watch them without having to knock on the oc. hopefully in the future i will be able to save stuff from the 360 to it.
 
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