Just got this

Xbox Music Mixer

Just got this


Dr Gonzo LLC 08-29-2007, 7:43 PM

I scooped it off Amazon for $9 with shipping and handling.  I needed to get this as my xbox is newer (march or April 2005) and is not capable of reading any burned media.  I spent about 4 hours trying to get it to work.  At first I tried to connect my laptop directly to my xbox, no luck (lost connection to PC).  I realized after some reading I needed a crossover cable (system link cable), since I didn't have one I hacked a regular ethernet cable and made it into a crossover cable, still nothing (lost connection to PC).  By then I was trying manual IP adresses, DNS and all that other fun stuff.  At this point I was ready to give up.  I finally decided to do the home network, which I basically already had with my router, thats all a home network is.  It was so simple I could have kicked myself.  I didn't want to do the home network thing because I was under the impression I would have to fiddle with my router, but I did nothing to it (Linksys WRT54GS ver. 6 with most current firmware, UPnP enabled).  Here is what I did......

1)Turned off everything: xbox, laptop, modem, and router.

2)Connected my laptop and xbox to the router via ethernet cables.  Wireless will not work, and on a side note you must disable the wireless connection of the computer.

3)Powered up the modem then the router.  Then I turned on the computer (network settings on automatic), then the xbox (network settings on automatic).  I downloaded the update for the music mixer when I signed into xbox live.

4)That was it.  I created the song list to import and presto, it transfered in less than five minutes.  After the file tranfer however you must create/convert the tracks in order to use them from the hard drive for other xbox games.  That conversion process takes a while, just a long as if you were buring a cd to the xbox.


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