XBOX360 and Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2
For those of you who don't yet have it, Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 is available and has some added functionality which can be used with the XBOX360.
Taken from the official site:
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The new Media Sharing feature of Windows Media Player 11 lets you enjoy the contents of your Windows Media Player library from anywhere in your home. If you have a home network (wired or wireless), you can use Windows Media Player 11 to stream the contents of your library to networked devices. For example, if you have an Xbox 360 or other digital media receiver (DMR), you can use Windows Media Player to stream music and pictures from your computer to that device.
What does this mean? Well this means no more Windows Media Connect, it's not built directly into Media Player and I personally think it's great.
By being built directly into Media Player, you can also take advantage of some of Media Players features from your 360. In the past with Windows Media Connect I was only able to use playlists I'd created.
Now with WMP11 I can use the Auto Playlists. I can make an auto playlist to play all the songs I've rated 5 stars, and whenever I select that playlist on the 360, it'll quickly scan my music and start playing through my top rated songs. :)
All I need now is volume levelization for the music player on the 360.